Author Archive for George

There is a story here. -gw  

Tags: Baha’i Temple  Lotus Temple  Delhi India Totoro

http://www.flickr.com/photos/honeybread/tags/totoro/

“Totoro admires the Lotus Temple” and “Baha’i Temple” both uploaded on August 22, 2008 by honeybread on flickr

We are free to wonder. I wonder how I am going to get my iPod talking to my computer again. -gw

Ruhi makes a good point. We know there are still many of Baha’u'llah’s Writings yet to be translated from the original Arabic or Persian, which may/may not leave clues for future Baha’is to follow. To speculate on what might be 850 years from now is mind boggling. How could anyone in 1908 have speculated that in less than one century man would have walked on the moon or possibly envisioned the iPod?

New Word-analysis, Or, School Etymology of English Derivative Words With Practical Exercises in Spelling, Analyzing, Defining, Synonyms, and the Use of Words By William Swinton 

Baha’i scholar William Hatcher’s influence continues in world, given the ease of access to his collected works that the online library in his name affords. Content is available for reuse via Creative Commons license. We are even invited to contribute to the library if we have relevant materials.-gw

The William S. Hatcher Library is provided by the estate of Dr. Hatcher to provide an on-line repository of his collected works. The site is gradually compiling and posting recorded presentations and talks in audio and video format, articles and books as well as selected presentation slides.

The works in this collection are available in a range of languages - English, French and Russian - and cover a range of topics related to the Bahá’í Faith, the existence of God, spirituality and more.

If you have any recordings or other works by William Hatcher which you would like to provide for this site, you can submit them using our contact form.

http://william.hatcher.org/ * http://william.hatcher.org/license

Is there a God of the Christians and other Gods for other religions? This Methodist minister wonders. -gw

My friend Sally has written an interesting post on the subject of whether the followers of other world religions worship a different God from the Christian God. I have a lot of respect for Sally and her views even when I disagree with her;  and this is one of the rare times we disagree! Anyway what she said, as well as some of the other comments on the post, got me thinking.

…I often feel I’m worshipping a ‘different God’ from many people who call themselves Christians. And I sometimes feel that my concept of God has more similarity with people of other religions - particularly progressive Jews, Sikhs and Baha’i.

http://pambg.blogspot.com/2008/08/other-gods.html

Photo: Uploaded on February 27, 2008 by jrbrubaker on flickr, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

Becoming a Baha’i through the core activities and continuing in those core activities after declaration, now that is a model to follow. -gw

 We have also been very active in the Baha’i community, since we are both now declared Baha’is (sorry to those of you who I haven’t gotten around to telling, but really it’s a personal decision and I’m not really one for discussing religion much).  We’ve been going to a devotional weekly and I’m trying to get a bi-weekly devotional going at our house.

http://dina23.vox.com/library/post/all-sorts-of-things.html?_c=feed-atom-full

[Reposted with permission]

Name: Epeli
Location: Lammi, Finland… epeli95, I am in awe  of you and your  list. -gw

http://www.emusic.com/lists/showlist.html?lid=18157002&nickname=EMUSIC-00C8C42C-epeli95&cs=1

epeli95 specifically collects music written and/or played by Baha’is.

Musicians his list introduces me to: Atef Sedkaoui * Marcas de Ayer * Bella Canto * Boston Praise Collective (includes track by premiere Baha’i blogger Phillipe Copeland) * Ferraby Lionheart * Free Planet Radio (member Chris Rosser is Baha’i) * Hum Static (music by sons of Jim Seals) * Michael Longo * Parisa, Rahmatollah Badiyi  * Phil Sisson * Shirley Flynn * The Acoustic Jazz Quartet (the pieces are written primarily by Baha’i Jamie Findlay, the guitarist). And there are links to many more, the one’s I have at least heard of before.

There is also song “trivia” about music by Baha’is that simply is not trivial, at least not to anyone who sees these songs as themselves evidence of the growth and influence of the Cause in the world.

Finally, here is a video that epeli95 includes on his YouTube channel that has live all the songs from the Embrace the World album I play constantly for myself and at Baha’i gatherings, such as the most recent Feast. (I always carry my iPod and my iPod dock to any gathering on the chance I can share a song or two.) -gw

 Embrace the World tour 2004 (excerpt)  From: epeli95 Views: 1,486

 Beautiful song: “Wherefore Dost Thou Grieve?” -gw

by  Ali Youssefi (Acoustic / Folk / Soul)  http://www.myspace.com/ayoussefi

I want more of these Baha’i podcasts. You, too? -gw

remover of every anguish (prayercast, trk.1) http://pizza.sandwich.net/

Photo: “Lord Ganesha, God of knowledge and the remover of obstacles.” Uploaded on April 21, 2008 by Donovan & Evelyn on flickr, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic

Ganesha (Sanskrit: गणेश; Gaṇeśa), also spelled Ganesa or Ganesh and also known as Ganapati, Vinayaka, and Pillaiyar, is one of the best-known and most worshipped deities in the Hindu pantheon. His image is found throughout India. Hindu sects worship him regardless of other affiliations. Devotion to Ganesha is widely diffused and extends to Jains, Buddhists, and beyond India.

Although he is known by many other attributes, Ganesha’s elephant head makes him easy to identify. Ganesha is widely revered as the Remover of Obstacles

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganesha

It’s raining, the temperature 15 degrees cooler than yesterday. I was going to out with my son to do some door-to-door teaching to test two neighborhoods in anticipation of our next Baha’i intensive teaching phase, but the rain has me blogging instead.  Child of Africa told a “summertime and rain” story in a story back in June in a post on the annual Souvenir Picnic in Teaneck NJ. -gw 

In the middle of the presentation large rain drops began to fall and not a person moved. I was wondering how heavy the rain would have to get before the presentation would stop. After about 5 minutes it was the rain that stopped and the clouds blew away and the sun came out again and the presentation continued without pause. How lovely it was to read the following story from “‘Abdu’l-Baha in New York: The City of the Covenant”–where the meeting was also interrupted with a few raindrops.

http://child-of-africa.blogspot.com/2008/06/annual-souvenir-picnic-teaneck-nj.html

Child of Africa is back from a visit to Finland, which she also blogged about. Her current post draws on a 1987 talk by Farzam Arbab on social transformation which appeared in a Baha’i Studies publicationThe Baha’i Faith and Marxism. Fascinating! -gw

http://child-of-africa.blogspot.com/2008/08/why-should-mature-humanity-not-be-able.html

Photo: “Raindrop harvest,” Uploaded on April 12, 2008 by smallandround on flickr, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic

I got a chuckle out of this photo celebrating family and culture (Zoroastrian). -gw 

 Just Eat!  ‘We are Parsee. I got all my sisters with me.’ on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

CHORUS:)
We are family
I got all my sisters with me
We are family
Get up ev’rybody and sing

Ev’ryone can see we’re together
As we walk on by
(FLY!) and we fly just like birds of a feather
I won’t tell no lie
(ALL!) all of the people around us they say
Can they be that close
Just let me state for the record
We’re giving love in a family dose

(CHORUS x2)

Living life is fun and we’ve just begun
To get our share of the world’s delights
(HIGH!) high hopes we have for the future
And our goal’s in sight
(WE!) no we don’t get depressed
Here’s what we call our golden rule
Have faith in you and the things you do
You won’t go wrong
This is our family Jewel

(REPEAT CHORUS TO FADE) http://www.stlyrics.com/lyrics/thefullmonty/wearefamily.htm