Not long after the first World’s Parliament of Religions introduced Americans to the Baha'i Faith at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the Faith took hold and gradually gained momentum in the United States.

Actor Rainn Wilson is NEBY-ish and proud of it -- proud to carry his message to over 1,000 Baha’is gathered recently at the 2008 Northeast Baha'i Youth Festival – NEBY, for short, held in Stamford, Conn.

John Birks “Dizzy” Gillespie, who became a Baha'i in 1968, would have been 90 this Oct. 21. He was at the forefront not only of the bebop jazz phenomenon, the most vital music of its age, but of a jazz generation that included Thelonious Monk, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald.

You don't have to be a kid to enjoy the interview with film and television star Rainn Wilson in the current issue of Brilliant Star, the multi-award-winning children's magazine published by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States.

On a sunny Father's Day at Wrigley Field, home of the Chicago Cubs, the grounds crews are preparing the field, and CBS is setting up its cameras as the swallows dart about the "friendly confines."

You know that studiously goofy guy in "The Office," "Six Feet Under," "My Super Ex-Girlfriend" and "Saturday Night Live"? And the lovable scientist in "The Last Mimzy"? He's a Baha'i. And when he talks about the faith in which he was raised, Rainn Wilson is seriously articulate.

The world knows Dizzy Gillespie, who died in 1993 at age 76, as the king of bebop. A charismatic performer who could go from wacky to deadpan in the space of a 16th-note. A self-taught musician whose cheeks puffed out like a bullfrog when he blew into his trumpet.