A Baha'i Perspective

A Baha'i and author of the book, The Story of Baha'u'llah: Promised One of All Religions. She also has a blog at http://luminousrealities.blogspot.com.

Larry is a broadcast engineer and a practical man but speaks with passion when talking about his experiences as a Baha'i. http://www.Tech-Notes.tv, Larry@Tech-Notes.TV His written of this story is at: http://www.bloomfield-family.org/DAD/Baha'i%20Story/

A telephone interview with John Medina, a Native American descended from a Mexican tribe. He graduated valedictorian at his high school in Douglas, Arizona and got his Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arizona. However he found himself needing more in life than working for a consumer electronics manufacturer. He decided to get his masters degree in education and is now teaching 6th graders. He also realized that there was something he had to put down on paper that was also inside him. The product of this effort is his book "Faith, Physics and Psychology: Understanding the Human Spirit." I started the interview by asking John to describe where he grew up.

Here is a story of the good little Catholic girl that asked too many questions, so she became a social activist, and then a political radical, before eventually becoming a Baha'i. As a Baha'i her horizons broadened and she felt a calling to go to Africa.

A Baha'i who has provided individual and group psychotherapy to victims of trauma and abuse for more than 25 years. She is a forensic expert in post-traumatic stress disorder and interpersonal violence and its effects. She has written two books; It's Not Your Fault: How Healing Relationships Change Your Brain & Can Help You Overcome a Painful Past, and her second book is called Seeking the Wisdom of the Heart: The Journey Doesn't End.

A Here is an incredible story of a woman, from a Mexican-American migrant farm-working family; traveling from place to place, season to season, picking crops with her family until she was 19. From these roots, Beatriz Ferreira becomes a lawyer defending the rights of those in circumstances from which she grew up. I started the interview by asking Beatriz to describe what it was like growing up as a migrant farmer. I apologize for the sound quality of the interview; the phone connection was not very good.

Duane tells his story and gives insights about becoming and being a Baha'i for over 40 years.

A Baha'i who grew up in New York City; moved to CT after getting married and raised her two kids in New London, CT. She was instrumental in bringing the Institute for the Healing of Racism to New London as a member of the Multicultural Coalition of SE CT.

A professor of law at the Univ. of Nebraska. He is the author of two books: Rethinking Humanitarian Intervention: A Fresh Legal Approach Based on Fundamental Ethical Principles in International Law and World Religions; and Hope For a Global Ethic: Shared Principles in Religious Scripture.

Jeanine is an educator and is currently the co-administrator of the Green Acre Baha'i Conference Center in Eliot, ME with her husband Jim. Together, when they were a young family with two pre-school children, they packed up their belongings and headed for South America. They eventually started a school inspired by the principles of the Baha'i Faith called The School of Nations. They nurtured it for fifteen years, seeing the school mature and stand on its own.

A Baha'i from South Hadley, MA, who is a professor at Mt. Holyoke College of History and African and African-American Studies. She is the author of two books: Social and Economic Development, A Baha'i Approach; and Landed Obligation: The Practice of Power in Buganda. She recently took a sabbatical to do research on the history of Kampala.

A Baha'i from Suffield, CT who is an actor by training. In the interview she describes how, after meeting her husband, they soon went to Ireland, and when they returned they settled in Suffield, CT. Mary K. has been in plays with the Suffield Players as far back as 1983. She describes how she used her acting talent to help create and perform the two-woman production, Amazing Grace: Stories of Personal Transformation.

Michael answers tough questions about his personal beliefs. Happy first anniversary to the "Ask a Baha'i" podcast. Part 2 of 2

A Bahá'í youth currently an undergraduate student at the University of Mass. who did a year of service in India between high school and university.

A University of Mass. student who chose to take a year off from her studies to do a Bahá'í year of service in Africa.