Bahá’í Tributes is a blog which aims to share appreciations made about the Bahá’í Faith by outstanding figures from the worlds of politics, literature and religion and other fields of human endeavour.
Sasha has found a way to sit through the Baha’i Feast. She packs her backpack with some of her favorite things, and during the administrative portion she works quietly with them. As shown here.
Two events tonight. First a Baha'i study class at the University of Puget Sound. Then a Spiritual Assembly meeting. In between, I picked green beans growing by the house. -gw
A shaft of sunlight catches Selena.
Rachelle comes prepared.
The seeker has good questions.
Our Board member Shawn and Area Teaching Committee secretary Chris saw goodnight after consulting with our Assembly on the upcoming Intensive Program of Growth.
Over the Labor Day weekend Baha'is in the Pacific Northwest came together for an annual arts festival at the Brighton Creek Baha'i Conference Center. Above is a pic of Alonso and Yuri Brizuela there. In fact, the arts were celebrated all over the world this summer, as a BWNS article with photos describes.-gw
Singing was the draw at a festival of choirs in the Congo…
The choir festival in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was the second such gathering since the annual event resumed after a 12-year hiatus caused by war and unrest in the eastern part of the country.
"Before the war, every year there was the festival," said Ahmad Parsa, a resident of neighboring Rwanda who attended part of the three-day event.
Some 16 choirs – mostly youth – presented original songs focusing on the life of Baha'u'llah and of the Bab. Each year, a theme is announced beforehand, and singers prepare new material.
The event is always in the province of South Kivu, but the exact locale changes. This year it was held in Sange, where local residents gave a warm welcome to the hundreds of festivalgoers and a Christian church allowed use of a property it owned for the venue, Mr. Parsa said.
Lorraine K. Thompson, 85, of Nampa, died at her home on Monday, Sept. 28, 2009. Graveside services will be held today, Tuesday, Sept. 29, at the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery, Boise, at 1 p.m. Lorraine was born on Nov. 9, 1923, at her family home in Tolstoy, S.D. She attended schools in South Dakota before her family moved to Nampa. During WWII she worked in the Shipyards in Vancouver, Wash., as a welder. Following that she moved to a small town on the Montana/Idaho border and then finally moved to Boise. It was here that she met William Thompson at Lloyd's restaurant. After being convinced by her father that William was a good man, they later married on Oct. 3, 1948, at Winnemucca, Nev. The two traveled to together living mainly in Sioux Falls, S.D., because of Bill's car racing career. While in South Dakota she worked for Hyde Jewelers and was also known to be quite the seamstress and knitter. In 1968 Lorraine and Bill moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, following Bill's retirement from the trucking industry as a vice president. They would eventually move to Nampa in June of 2000 to be close to family. Lorraine loved to play cards, especially, Trash, Bingo, and Pinochle with her friends. She was a faithful member of the Baha'i faith, serving as a member of the local spiritual assembly in Boise; Marin Co., Calif.; Sioux Falls, S.D.; Granger, Utah; and Nampa.
Trash is a fun and simple game for children and adults alike. It's especially handy to know for long car trips, after school programs, and summer camps. Here is how to play the game.
Elden Kelly began to play the guitar at age ten, studying jazz and experimental improvisation. His interest in international styles eventually led him to the oud (a fretless Egyptian lute), and the glissentar (a 12-stringed fretless guitar), which he now incorporates
into many of his performances. In addition to instrumental improvisation, Elden also works as a singer-songwriter, whose musical style
blends middle-eastern influences with neo-classicism, jazz, and American roots music. His new CD, 1000 Doors, exhibits
this direction in a compilation of original musical settings for solo voice and guitar of the sacred writings of the Baha’i Faith.
Sisters of song bring you tunes to celebrate the loving hands of family and friends.Genre: Kids/Family: Kid FriendlyRelease Date: 1984
It was 1984. No, not the book — in my life. My children were 7, 5, 3 and 1. And the cassette in the cassette player was Loving Hands by Susan Engle and Jean White. Like all good music should be, the album is still available 25 years later. A reviewer on CD Bbay wrote… -gw
We bought this album when our children were little and played it all the time. We had just become Baha'is and this music was the sound track of our lives. The women's voices are so sweet and lovely and jazzy. The instrumentation is artful and compelling. Now the children are grown, and the album needed replacing, so I have recently replaced it — simply because the music is beautiful and uplifting, and not just for children.
If the Baha'i Faith is the vehicle to unify the world into one universal Cause and one common faith, it must itself be united. I read the following and was reminded again of the protection provided Baha'is through the Covenant of Baha'u'llah. What will divide the Baha'i Faith? Nothing. The Covenant is that clear. -gw
Conservative members of the nation's largest Lutheran denomination will decide in a year whether to remain or form a new denomination after the church voted to affirm gay clergy, the Associated Press reports.
Some 1,200 people attended a meeting of Lutheran CORE over the weekend. The group comprises members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America who are unhappy with the churchwide assembly vote last month to allow gay men and women in committed relationships to serve as clergy.
Lutheran CORE leaders have urged members to withhold financial support for the Chicago-based denomination of 4.7 million members. ELCA Presiding Bishop Mark Hanson has warned that such a boycott would devastate the mission of the church.
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