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.

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?"

Take a closer look into the Baha'i Faith through the eyes of a youth, Ms. Nava Ghalili, a life-long Baha'i, who was interviewed for the documentary series, "One-on-one: An Interfaith Dialogue." 

An important part of the spiritual practice of members of the Baha'i Faith is daily prayer and meditation. Maggie Wilkins, a Baha’i in Highland Park, Illinois, knew that saying prayers was key in her spiritual development, but found the Baha'i prayers “next-to impossible” to learn because of her dyslexia.

'Tis the season. However, for members of the Baha'i Faith, who come from virtually all national, cultural and religious backgrounds, gift-giving is still a few months away. It's a difficult concept for many outside our faith to grasp.