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  • Oct 29 08

    At the Washington Post’s On Faith, Remz Pokorny, a senior at Brandeis University, chronicles his decision to stick with the religion he was reared in by two very different parents.

  • Oct 14 08

    Melissa Knudtson
    Madison, Wisconsin
    Baha'i since June 2007

    By the age of 8, Melissa Knudtson concluded there was a God. Her parents were from a Christian background, but were noncommittal about religion and didn’t rear their children in a faith. The most religion she received was from going to church once a month with her grandmother.

  • Sep 26 08

    Alvin Bitsilly
    Mexican Springs, N.M.
    Baha'i since 1991

    Before discovering the Baha'i Faith in the late '80s, I was into drugs and alcohol and living a real trashy life. I had just started to try to get my life together.

  • Aug 15 08

    BJ Lee, Baha'i since 2006
    Eloy, Arizona

    I was confirmed a Catholic -- my mother’s doing. My father was Jewish and an agnostic. Both raised me to question things and to accurately interpret information, which is what I did when searching for a religion starting in the ‘70s.

  • Jul 23 08

    Veronica Fairchild
    Sun Valley, Nevada
    Baha'i since 2004


    I was born and raised Mormon. I attended until I was about 17, but stopped attending because the church wasn’t treating my family the way I thought Jesus would treat His brothers and sisters.

  • Jun 19 08

    Mary Jo Adams
    Reno, Nevada
    Bahá'í since 2007


    I was raised Catholic, and for much of my youth dreamed of becoming a nun. But eventually I found I didn’t agree with much of the doctrine and felt unmoved by the services.

  • May 30 08

    Thom Thompson, author of Questions from Christians about Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith, talks about his conversion from Christianity to the Baha'i Faith, and the similarities and differences between Baha'is and Christians on CBS-TV’s “Issues of Faith.”

  • May 21 08

    Stephen and Megan Morris
    Albuquerque
    Bahá’ís since summer 2006


    Having moved away from the southern Baptist church, the religion of his youth, Stephen Morris thought he was doing fine with his self-created belief system.

  • Apr 18 08

    Ed LaBonte
    Athol, Massachusetts
    Baha'i since November 2007


    After being an atheist my whole life, I decided, as part of a midlife crisis, that there had to be something out there that was better than nothing. Secular humanists say you have to make your own meaning, but when you’re faced with a gigantic universe that doesn’t care about you, it’s hard to do.

  • Mar 20 08

    Greta and John Perrine
    Flint, Michigan
    Baha'is since 2005


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