At this season we reflect on the spiritual significance of thanksgiving with the following words of Abdu’l-Baha, son of Baha’u’llah, Founder of the Baha'i Faith. Abdu'l-Baha shared these thoughts when He visited the United States in 1912.

Since he was diagnosed with a grade IV cancerous brain tumor last summer, Craig Farnsworth has been in “deep prayer mode.”

One Sunday a month, Tamara Hendershot hosts an informal prayer gathering, or devotional, in her Highland Park home north of Chicago. Each gathering brings a different combination of participants.

Some swear by the power of prayer; others reject it as magical thinking. For Baha'is, prayer is the glue that cements their loving communion with God.

Not long after the first World’s Parliament of Religions introduced Americans to the Baha'i Faith at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Faith took hold and gradually gained momentum in the United States.

While student-teaching in Houston, Nebraskan Kerri Molczyk is keeping folks at home up to date on her experiences through “The Phony Houstonian,” a column she writes for the Spalding Enterprise in Spalding, Neb.

Two Baha'i friends and neighbors in Columbia, S.C., have been throwing a weekly "spiritual party" whose success surprises even them.

Pamela Brode discovered that praying regularly helped her cope with raising two children with disabilities and other challenges in her life, such as losing her eyesight and undergoing a number of surgeries to regain her vision. Inspired by her experiences, she began collecting stories from others who had been transformed by prayer. Their stories are a large part of The Power of Prayer: Make a Joyful Noise.