Personalities

How the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette came to be

shane — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:31:02 -0500

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.

Live the life of spirit, Rainn Wilson tells young Baha’is

shane — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 12:53:04 -0600

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.

Dizzy Gillespie, bebop Baha'i, continues to inspire

shane — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:47:01 -0500

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.

Catching up with Rainn Wilson, a Baha'i brilliant star

shane — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:35:33 -0500

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.

Padres shortstop Khalil Greene balances baseball and being Baha’i

shane — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:07:33 -0500

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."

Rainn Wilson: Hollywood’s funny guy talks straight about being a Baha'i

shane — Tue, 15 May 2007 13:25:51 -0500

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.

Bebop Baha'i: Dizzy Gillespie’s legacy of harmony lives on

shane — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:40:13 -0600

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.