Fasting
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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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My ridiculous 2004 fasting article
The Baha’i world is now on day twelve of the nineteen day fast. The one nineteenth of the year when we abstain from food and liquids while the sun is up. The other eighteen nineteenths are known to me as my love affair with lunch, arguably one of the three most important meals of the…
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One Nineteenth
The chilly mornings and nights and windy days over here have made way for unbearable heat. That must signal that one nineteenth of the year in which Baha’i Bloggers and Baha’is alike are abstaining from food and drink from sunrise to sundown has started. Not like the fast my Ethiopian Orthodox roommates do for two…
Samuel Benoit 