Education

What started out as a scholarship essay...

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:26:12 -0500

Valerie shares in her blog Experiences from the Equator her journey of leaving her home in Alaska to offer service as a volunteer English teacher in Otavalo, Ecuador.

A Religion of Spring

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:31:33 -0400

In Culture Parent, A Magazine for Parents Raising Little Global Citizens, features Baha'i blogger, Sandra Lynn Hutchison, discussing the significance of Spring as a time to "give us the strength to come forth after long exile and take roots in the social transformation in which we believe so deeply."

Professional Study Matched with Service Overseas

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:12:38 -0400

When Parisa’s boss encouraged her to take this weeklong trip, she probably never imagined Haiti would steal Parisa’s heart. Upon her return to California, Parisa quit her job and committed herself to finding her way back to the global arena.

The ABC’s of Spirituality: Educating Children

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:51:31 -0400

For over a century the American Baha'i community has been offering spiritual education to Baha'i children. These days, Baha'is across the country and around the world are partnering with friends and neighbors to offer these classes to children of all backgrounds.

Music brings unity to holiday season

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:00:00 -0500

Every year we're asked, "How do Baha'is handle the winter holidays?" "When is the Baha'i gift-giving season?" "How do Baha'is view Christ?"

This year we spoke with Veda Mosavi, a Baha'i from Calif. who was raised by a Persian Baha'i father and a mother from a Baptist background, who became a Baha'i when Veda was young.

Programs for teens and pre-teens

glen — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 12:22:50 -0500

Ask young members of the Baha'i Faith what they’re involved in, and you’ll no doubt hear about helping to build sustainable communities, teaching children principles of morality, participating in interfaith programs and doing service projects, among other activities.

Lifelong quest to right history’s wrongs leads him to Baha'i Faith

shane — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:14:42 -0400

It took 10 years for Owen Hein to join the Baha'i Faith. Ten years to study it from every angle and conclude that, more than any other religion, it spoke to his passion - eliminating racial inequality.

Ethiopian giraffe captures children's hearts

shane — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 16:18:00 -0500

Ethiopian children now can tune in to the country's first show to use puppets and animation in an educational context, thanks to the brainchild of Baha'is Shane and Bruktawit Etzenhouser.

Baha'i-inspired school a study in teaching virtues

shane — Mon, 05 Dec 2005 17:42:18 -0500

Teachers, by their nature, have a notable goal. But Nanci Aiken ups the ante even more. As founder and executive director of Children's Success Academy, a five-year-old K-5th grade charter school in Tucson, Arizona, Aiken wants to do more than educate. She wants to "serve humanity," which is one of the tenets of the Baha'i Faith, to which she belongs.