Profiles

What's Your Calling?

Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:37:12 -0400

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.

Selected profiles of African American Baha'is

admin — Tue, 01 Feb 2011 11:51:11 -0500

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.

Baha’i Faith takes root in a young girl’s questions

Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:21:03 -0500

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.

From the Midwest to Mumbai: Baha'i Choir Returns from India

Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:31:14 -0400

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.

Community building; One heart at a time

Tue, 25 May 2010 17:48:14 -0400

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.

Ruth G. Richardson - Portrait of an Artist

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:19:21 -0500

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.

Baha'i from PA on Project Runway

Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:25:37 -0500

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.

The Unity Bluegrass Band - "Getting Around Tuit" again

ellen — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 01:00:00 -0500

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

Van Gilmer, House of Worship Director of Music, featured on local website

ellen — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:24:35 -0400

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.

Why Baha'i - Holiday Reinhorn

ellen — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 15:58:11 -0400

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?"