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  • Apr 20 11

    Baha'i Media Services has been collaborating with The Kindling Group, a Chicago media collective, to create web-based video profiles of Baha'is pursuing their calling in the world. This project is in conjunction with the recently aired four hour PBS documentary miniseries, "The Calling" which follows seven young religious Americans as they prepare for a life of religious leadership.

  • Feb 01 11

    In observance of African American History Month, we pay tribute to some notable African American Baha’is who have made significant contributions to American society.

  • Dec 31 10

    The Casa Grande Dispatch in Arizona published a story on December 31, 2010 on Deb Rodgers’ journey to the Baha’i Faith.  “People who consider themselves spiritual, but have given up on religion, find a home in the Baha’i Faith,” Deb said.

  • Jul 02 10

    On Monday, June 28, singer Emily Price, stepped off a plane at Chicago’s O’Hare airport and after twenty hours of travel she headed straight for rehearsal with the city’s Grant Park Chorus.  While she sight-read French choral music and withstood fatigue, images of India danced in her head.

  • May 25 10

    The Baha’i Faith has some lofty goals. To name just a few: developing a consciousness of world citizenship, the establishment of full equality between men and women, the elimination of all forms of prejudice and the development of an economy informed by spiritual principles. Many people might think of these ideas as utopian, and rightly so.

  • Feb 26 10

    Ruth G. Richardson is a member of the Baha’i Faith and lives just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Today, Ruth is in her 80’s and enjoying her second career as a painter.

  • Jan 28 10

    She didn’t make it to episode three, but Pamela Ptak is confident that her favorite designer had His hand in it, and that He knows what He’s doing.

  • Nov 08 09

    In August more than one thousand attendees celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Green Lake Baha'i Conference in Wisconsin

  • Oct 06 09

    The Ageless Northshore website editors, Don and Peg Shearn, interviewed the Baha'i House of Worship Music Director, Van Gilmer, for a story on their site this week -- Van Gilmer: the Harmonious Voice of Diversity.

     

  • Oct 01 09

    In 2005, in Encino, Calif., Holiday Reinhorn (fiction writer and wife of actor Rainn Wilson) led her first fireside (introductory presentation on the Baha'i Faith), where she answered the question, "How did you go from being a person who was very uncomfortable about discussions of spiritual faith, a person who wasn’t quite sure what to think when it came to God—to a person who just joined the Baha’i Faith?"

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