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Why Baha'i
- 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.
- Feb 13 08
Cary Enoch Reinstein
Fort Valley, Georgia
Baha'i since 1963
If I hadn’t offered a pretty girl a can of beer at a 1963 Fourth of July party in the Berkeley Hills of northern California, I probably wouldn’t have come across the Baha'i Faith quite so soon. - Oct 19 07
Jason “Oak” Ritchie
Columbia, S.C.
Baha'i since 1999
‘I wanted to see the world change for the better, to do good in this world’
- Sep 14 07
Amy Lugsch
Persia, Iowa
Baha'i since 1994'The principles of the Faith were everything I had always believed in'
I was raised Catholic and thought I was comfortable with my faith. But it always bothered me that I was taught everyone else was going to go to hell.
- Jul 25 07
If you don't figure out your own identity, "society will happily tell you," says Marianne Smith Geula, a Chicago Baha'i. What society told her in the 1970s was that she was a young, black woman. Or a young, biracial woman, if the person doing the telling was more perceptive.
- Jul 02 07
It took 10 years for Owen Hein to join the Baha'i Faith. Ten years to study it from every angle and conclude that, more than any other religion, it spoke to his passion - eliminating racial inequality.
