Baha’i Community Life
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Peace and Environment News article on Ottawa Baha’i community’s environmental action
Literally dozens of Ottawa residents might find themselves reading my words as they grab a copy this month’s (November/December 2009) of the free newsletter Peace and Environment News (PEN) published by Peace and Environment Resource Centre. It was produced as part of an initiative with the Ottawa chapter of Faith and the Common Good, upon…
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Baha’i Geeks and Environmentalists Unite!
In the past 48 hours, I have traveled by bike, hybrid car, regular car, greyhound, subway, train, taxi and foot to get from Tatamagouche, through Amherst, Sackville, Fredericton, Montreal, Ottawa, Montreal (again) and New York City to arrive in Washington, D.C. and attend, speak, blog and mingle at the joint 33rd Annual Association for Baha’i…
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Charlatan article on the Baha’i Faith on campus
Click on the image above to read the online version of an article I was interviewed for on what is like to practice the Baha’i Faith at Carleton University as a member of Carleton’s Association for Baha’i Studies. I tried to convey that it really isn’t difficult to carry out the practical aspects of being…
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Working at the prayer factory
I have finally posted to flickr my set of photos from my month serving at the Baha’i House of Worship in New Delhi, India. Along with some unusual photos of the Lotus Temple there are are pictures of two sun-burnt Quebecers, cockroaches and trash cans at the zoo. Click onwards.
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Return to Yasothon
All of my 2003-2004 Baha’i youth year of service was to be in Macau, China but visa problems eventually led the government of that city to kick me out. While on exile in mainland China I made arrangements to continue volunteering with the Thai Baha’i community. I was sent to a small town in the…
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What exactly it was that I was doing in Thailand (again) + Chiang Mai photos posted
THEN / NOW While I was in the geopolitical neighborhood this year I had the chance to offer a month of service with the Baha’i community of Thailand, one of the sites of my 2003-2004 youth year of service. The Thai Baha’i community is a young one compared to many other countries, but many of…
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Naw-Ruz Greeting Video and Naw-Ruz in General
My beloved Flickr has just added video functionality so I am posting here the video Naw-Ruz greeting video I was commissioned by the Ottawa holy day celebration master Sherrie Yazdani to make. She asked all Ottawa Baha’is living far and away to send in short greeting videos to be shown all together at the community’s…
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Belguam Photos Posted
Back in September when I learned that I was going to go to some place in India called Dharwad, it was rare to find anyone who had heard of the place, much have been there. Finally, at my last nineteen day feast in Ottawa a friend’s parents not only knew the place but had visited…
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