Safarnameh

Safarnameh (Farsi for "travel letter") is the online journal of two Quakers in Iran

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Fourth Week of Advent: Agape Love AND Christmas in Tehran

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The fourth week of Advent came and went in a hurry. Our MCC Area Representatives (for Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine) came and spent most of...
Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Third Week in Advent : Joy (while waiting)

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A highway shall be there, and it shall be called the Holy Way; the unclean shall not travel on it, but it shall be for God’s people; no trav...
Monday, December 10, 2007

Second Week of Advent: Peace

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The wolf shall live with the lamb, the leopard shall lie down with the kid, the calf and the lion and the fatling together and a little chil...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

First Week of Advent: Hope

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“In the days to come the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established at the highest of the mountains, and shall be raised above the hi...
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Monday, November 26, 2007

Home Bored with a Cold

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Christmas- the luxury of noticing what one misses about home I knew it was coming! What a marvelous trip through Qatar and then to Jordan; ...
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Thursday, November 08, 2007

A Reflection on Community

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Coming to Qom is quite an adventure! Yet even in an adventure there is a time when you long for the comforts of home. We often say that th...
Monday, October 29, 2007

Books, Needles and Blind Men

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Autumn has come to Qom. The air is cool and sweetly fragrant, morning and evening. Villages an hour west of us have snow on the ground. Wh...
Monday, October 22, 2007

Happy Birthday, Doris Lessing

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Doris Lessing, writer extraordinaire and this year's recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature, was born 88 years ago today in Kermans...
Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Observations Coming Home From Iran

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I love to have out of town visitors as guests in our home. Better yet is picking someone up at the airport who has never visited our town. ...
Saturday, October 13, 2007

Iranian Welcome

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Grace and peace to you from Qom! Our flight from Frankfurt to Tehran was smooth and by 12:30 a.m. on 1 October, we were standing in a conge...
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