Some documents related to the chronicles

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Issues related to the dialogue/Talisman movement in general

From the House of Justice:

Issues Related to the Study of the Baha'i Faith

From the International Teaching Centre:

Baha'i Scholarship: importance, nature and promotion of

Paper by Ian Semple:

Knowledge and the Covenant of Baha'u'llah

Article by Peter Khan:

Some Aspects of Baha'i Scholarship

Documents related to events in the chronicles

1976 to 1983: The LA study class newsletter

Baquia's transcription of the newsletter

1986 to 1988: dialogue Magazine

1988: A Modest Proposal

dialogue Magazine discontinued

Steve Scholl's account

21 June 1989 letter to Steve Scholl from the House of Justice, explaining its concerns (contained in the Ocean Software Library)

House of Justice message to the Baha'is of the United States:
Individual Rights and Freedoms

1988: The Service of Women on the Institutions of the Baha'i Faith

Response of the House of Justice

1996 article by Juan Cole:
Women's Service on the Universal House of Justice

Allegations that the paper was suppressed:
Discussion on trb
Discussion in the forum of the Baha'i Academics Resource Library

????: Creation of the Majnun list

1994: May 19 letter from the House of Justice to the United States National Spiritual Assembly, about issues related to administration

Creation of the first Talisman list

1995: The David Langness incident

Talk by Peter Khan

Eric Pierce's compilation on the David Langness incident

Stephen Birkland's post on the David Langness incident

Steve Scholl's letter to the House of Justice

1996: The Majnun post

1997: Michael McKenny removed from the membership

Related documents on Juan Cole's site

Susan Maneck's correspondence with the House of Justice

1998: Juan Cole's Modernity and the Millennium

1999: House of Justice message about internal opposition

Terry Culhane's open letter to his friends

First Talisman list closed

Creation of Talisman9

Creation of the talk.religion.bahai newsgroup

2000: Alison Marshall removed from the membership

Related documents on Alison's site

2005: Sen McGlinn's Church and State: A Postmodern Political Theology

Sen McGlinn removed from the membership

House of Justice message to all National Spiritual Assemblies
Comment on Issues Related to the Study of the Baha'i Faith

Decision of the United States National Spiritual Assembly about Kalimat Press

2007: Moojan Momen's Marginality and Apostasy in the Baha'i Community

Other lists

The following pages contain links to some other related documents:

Karen Bacquet's The Talisman Crackdown

Karen Bacquet's When Principle and Authority Collide, Endnote 27

Juan Cole's Documents on Baha'i History and Thought

Fred Glaysher's Assorted Controversial Documents & Issues (scroll down)

My links to Some Documents Related to Baha'i Social Issues

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