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		<title>Fasting to learn of hunger</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:18:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Anvari-Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ For Baha'is, the Fast generally means a time of personal spiritual purification, re-orienting oneself towards God. But it also serves as an opportunity to come to know suffering. This is a bounty, to understand the world around us in ways that we normally would not...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writtenintoreality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7046338&amp;post=312&amp;subd=writtenintoreality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Injustice upheld: Redskins permitted to keep name</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 02:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Anvari-Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was just announced today that the US Supreme Court has refused to hear a trademark suit brought against the Washington Redskins football team by the National Congress of American Indians (and others). In effect, the Redskins can keep their name, because the tribal groups "waited too long to bring their challenge to the Redskins trademark, and thus forfeited any right to sue."...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writtenintoreality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7046338&amp;post=308&amp;subd=writtenintoreality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baltimore mayor on trial: how about just overhauling our understanding of governance?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:32:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Anvari-Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So after four years of probing and investigations, the State of Maryland has decided it's got enough dirt to take Baltimore's first female mayor to trial.

Does the State take issue with a single black mom at the helm of its largest city? Is Mayor Sheila Dixon simply another politician aiming to bend the rules as they apply to her and her cronies? According toBaltimore Sun's Dan Rodricks, her trial lawyers are apparently going to try painting her as a champion for the poor and needy. All in all, the case will follow whatever course it will. Maybe she's guilty and maybe she's not. The point is, why are she and way too many other elected officials around this country even in the spotlight for corruption?<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writtenintoreality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7046338&amp;post=303&amp;subd=writtenintoreality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>a learning process &#8211; macro view</title>
		<link>http://writtenintoreality.wordpress.com/2009/10/14/a-learning-process-macro-view/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:39:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Anvari-Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Profound transformations are taking place in the Baha'i world community. In contrast to many other religious groups where tradition holds prominent importance, the Baha'i community has embarked upon processes of learning, growth and systematic change to address the ills of a world in turmoil. Various observations have come out of the Baha'i World Center either from institutions or individuals outlining certain components of the enterprise in which we are taking part. In a talk given by Dr. Haleh Arbab in 2007 at the Annual Conference of the Association for Baha'i Studies - North America, three broad processes are outlined:
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		<title>on labor</title>
		<link>http://writtenintoreality.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/on-labor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:29:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Anvari-Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I've just started reading "Holding the Line: women in the great Arizona mine strike of 1983" by Barbara Kingsolver. The intro discusses strikes in general and the issues of justice that unions address. I then began thinking about the Baha'i teachings and how they would relate to these kinds of instances, which Abdu'l-Baha terms "industrial slavery"...
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		<title>discussing race</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 16:54:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Anvari-Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bar-stool diplomacy? Beer summit? These terms trivialize and distract from what's actually taken place. I'm with Obama on this one - "This is three folks having a drink at the end of the day, and hopefully giving people an opportunity to listen to each other, and that's really all it is." Except, this isn't all it really is. This is forward movement...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=writtenintoreality.wordpress.com&amp;blog=7046338&amp;post=264&amp;subd=writtenintoreality&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>looking for unity builders</title>
		<link>http://writtenintoreality.wordpress.com/2009/07/26/looking-for-unity-builders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Jul 2009 13:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Anvari-Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day I was walking around one of Baltimore’s many parks, looking for individuals who were interested in creating unity. By all honest assessments, Charm City’s got a whole host of problems. Yet, I know that it also has some incredible people who care deeply about the social environment in which they and their families live and that they’re trying to do something about it...
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		<title>the reflection post</title>
		<link>http://writtenintoreality.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/the-reflection-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Anvari-Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's been almost 3 months since I officially launched this blogging venture and, as has been the original intent, my approach is one of learning and organic development. So, in an attempt to stay systematic, this post will be a reflection/evaluation...
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		<title>on children&#8217;s classes</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Anvari-Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The way Bahá'ís are approaching children's classes isn't your average Sunday School. To start, classes are held any time and any place it's regularly feasible

"Blessed is the spot, and the house, and the place, and the city, and the heart, and the mountain, and the refuge, and the cave, and the valley, and the land, and the sea, and the island, and the meadow where mention of God hath been made, and His praise glorified."

So, if we can get two teachers and a band of children under the shade of a tree in the park on a Thursday afternoon in the summer, we'll have a children's class...
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		<title>on learning in action</title>
		<link>http://writtenintoreality.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/on-learning-in-action/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:07:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeffrey Anvari-Clark</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I attended a meeting at which our community coordinating group reflected on efforts over the past two months to establish a children's class in a particular neighborhood. (Related previous post on this.) What came out of the reflection was a budding understanding that we need to approach this as "churning up the mulch"...
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