The evening with Jeremy and Carolyn Fox on June 29^th was interesting and inspiring. Firstly they read some of Bahá’u’lláh’s Hidden Words interspersed with some beautiful playing of Bach by Carolyn on her viola. Then Jeremy gave us a Power-point presentation about his publication Letter to the Christians by Bahá’u’lláh: Translation and Commentary by Jeremy Fox. (paperback ISBN 99903-990-0-X).

 Jeremy gave a brief explanation of the historical background to Bahá’u’lláh’s writing of this letter over half-a-century ago whilst a prisoner in Palestine. He then drew our attention to the Foreword to the book by Dr Wallace Allen Shaw, a Christian minister, who highly recommends it to his fellow Christians. Dr Shaw writes, “Religious insularity has been one of the greatest barriers to global peace”, and further asks, “Do not we all need to learn from one another and make as serious an inquiry into the teachings of other faiths as we expect their adherents to make into ours?” Jeremy in his own Introduction reassures Christian readers that they “will find nothing in these pages which can imply, even to the smallest degree, any trace of disloyalty to Christ.”

Bahá’u’lláh’s Letter to the Christians (Lawh-i-Aqdas) is arranged in 23 sections on which Jeremy makes his subsequent, scholarly Commentary, referencing, continually and systematically, both the sections of the letter and the Old and New Testaments.

I think this is a book which is easy to follow and will be of interest to people of all faiths but in particular to Christians and Bahá’ís.