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Sen McGlinn's blog
http://senmcglinn.wordpress.com
Musings on the Bahai teachings and community, and occasional poetry
- Added on: Nov 29th, 2008
- Country: Netherlands
- Language: English
- Author: Sen McGlinn
- Listed in: Bahá'í Faith Religious
- Tags: theology church and state bahai faith bahai teachings bahai scriptures iranian studies
Recent Posts
Heroes of modernity: Rushdiyh
"In 1889, Mirza Hasan returned to his birthplace in Tabriz, where he established the first modern primary school in a mosque in Shishkalan district of that town. ... It seems that it was about this time that he became known by the name, Rushdiyh, af...
Anna presents the New World Order
The interviewer asks one more question: "That sounds more like a system of government than a church. Is that what it will become? Will the Bahais eventually set up a church state, or a theocracy like the one in Iran? ...
Defending Shoghi Effendi
There are the only two instances in which Shoghi Effendi uses the word theocracy in connection with the Bahai Faith, and both refer to its internal organisation as a religious community, not to its theories about the organisation of the state. ...
Executive and legislative
In Abdu’l-Baha’s usage: "executive" is not a branch of government in the western sense, but rather the executive force in society, it is that which is concerned with “laws, regulations, arts and sciences” that are produced by human effort, as...
Humour at last
The continuous stream of anti-Bahai hate speech in the Iranian media continues unabated. There are perhaps 3 or 4 new items generated each day, and reproduced on dozens of sites. The stories are usually about the Bahais as servants of Russian/British...
The mystery of sacrifice
"This bit of wisdom may not be from Bahai scripture, but it is no less true for that."...
