# Various Essays

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> Various Essays
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> Jack McLean
> published in Gulf Islands Driftwood
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> 1994-2021
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> Commemoration of the Centenary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Visit to North America (2012)
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> Divine Simplicity: Remembering the last Hand of the Cause of God, Dr. ‘Ali-Muhammad Varqa (2007)
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> Dissidents and the Bahá’í Faith (2005)
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> The Enigma of Time (from Under the Divine Lote Tree: Essays and Reflections, 1999)
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> Epiphany in the Church Meadow (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
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> Eric Fromm and the Bahá’í Faith (2007)
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> The Faith State: Vital to Theist, Agnostic and Atheist (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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> Fall in Love With a Frog: Conversation With a Centenarian (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
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> Globalization and Humanity’s Coming-of-Age (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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> The Heart is a Little Bird that Longs to Soar: Incomplete Impressions of Pilgrimage in Haifa, Bahji and Akká in the Days of the Universal House of Justice (2007)
> 
> Hope as Creative Fiction (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
> 
> “Imagination, the Mistress of us All”: Commentary on Blaise Pascal’s Saying (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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> In Durham Cathedral: A Moment With Stephen Lambden (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
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> In Search of Community (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
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> Kindness to Animals (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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> Lessons Learned from the Columbine High Massacre (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1999)
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> Life Tests and Other Stressful Situations (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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> Message of the Universal House of Justice to the World’s Religious Leaders (Panel Discussion Comments at ABS Conference, 2002)
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> My Interview With Laura Dreyfus-Barney (Paris 1967)
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> The Nine Rites of Spring (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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> Pain and Suffering (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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> The Plaster Saint According to Father Thomas Merton (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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> Preparing for the Centenary of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá’s Visit to Montreal (2012)
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> Public and Private Morality and the Politician (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
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> Reading Father Thomas Merton: Convergence of Spirits (2009)
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> Religion in Ingmar Bergman’s Films (2007)
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> Remembering John F. Kennedy, 1960-1999 (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1999)
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> Replacing Debate With Consultation (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
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> Return to Salt Spring: Fall Impressions of an Island Refuge (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 2008)
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> The Search for Truth (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
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> Sex and the Soul as the Body Beautiful (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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> Short Notes on Bahá’í Belief (1994)
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> Spirituality According to Pop Culture (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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> Spirituality is More Than a Fashionable Word (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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> Summer Travel-Teaching In England and France (2004)
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> Teaching at the Café: Meeting H., an Iranian Gentleman (2008)
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> Teaching the Faith, Magic Moments, Meeting Great Souls (2012)
> 
> Unconditional Love (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1997)
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> The Voice of Conscience in Character (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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> What A Young Man Learned From Laura Rumney Davis About Shoghi Effendi (1965)
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> What Stanwood Cobb Told Me About ‘Abdu’l-Bahá (2007)
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> Why We Need Bahá’í Theology (1995)
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> Worshiping Eros: A Modern Myth (Gulf Islands Driftwood, 1998)
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