Profiles

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.

Selected profiles of African American Baha'is

admin — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:12:11 -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 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?"

A Faith for Youth

glen — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:53:30 -0400

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."

Jazz singer Tierney Sutton takes a spiritual look at 'Desire'

ellen — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 01:03:42 -0400

Tierney Sutton is hardly alone among jazz vocalists in trying to bring a spiritual dimension to her music. But lining up jazz standards with the sacred writings of the Baha'i Faith takes the idea a step further, says Britain's Daily Express in a review of her new album.