A Bahá'í Perspective is a podcast of biographical interviews of people who have either chosen the Bahá'í Faith as a way of life or who have a relationship with the Bahá'í Faith.
Dorothy was one of two women to graduate in 1953 from the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Law. In 1969 Dorothy was the first woman dean of a major American law school, the Universit…
Mary has both an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in Economics. She received the distinguished American Association of University Women dissertation grant, two Fulbright professorships, and a Reese Phifer fellows…
Patti is a children's author who has written books from a a Baha'i Perspective that include such titles as "Are You Happy," "Maggie Celebrates Ayyam-i-ha," and "Something Important". "Something Impo…
Zinnia is a singer song writer and we feature her songs in the interview. Zinnia's mother is Phillipino and her father is Iranian. They came to Canada as religious refugees and had to start their l…
I met Alan at a Baha'i song writers workshop held at the Desert Rose Baha'i Institute in Arizona December 2015. When I heard Alan's voice and music and knew I had to feature him on A Baha'i Perspect…
Roger has had a lifelong interest in the fundamental harmony of science and religion and a focused desire to transcend the worldly conflicts that obscure it. He is currently working on a book dedicat…
Louis is the author of the book, " target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Jim-Crow-Church-Carolinas-Southerners/dp/0813061075"No Jim Crow Church - The Origins of South Carolina's Bahaacute;#39;i…
Avrel is both an author and a musician. We talk about three books he's written and he reads excerpts from all three, and we talk about three of his musical compositions and play them in the intervie…
Emily is a graduate student focusing on contemporary Islamic communities. Emily caught my eye because it seems that the Islamic community is so misunderstood these days. We talk about the misconcep…
Niki describes her spiritual journey from being a Christian to becoming a Baha'i. She is a poet and one of her interests is alternative health and healing. She shares her poetry on the interview an…
Amazingly Duanne, who loved books, had dyslexia, and wasn't able to read for the first two years in school. Despite his disability, he pursued a life of books and became a prolific author of article…
p sprtid="112.P"Candace tells her interesting story on how she became a Baha'i and how a small town girl from Oregon happened to end up in Chicago working for the Baha'i National Center starting as a…
Ethnomusicologist Marvin 'Doc' Holladay is a living legend in the world of jazz. His musicianship supported such jazz world luminaries as Pepper Adams, Cannonball Adderley, Nat Adderley, Quincy Jone…
Brian is the author of the book " href="http://www.awakendemocracy.com/" target="_blank" spfieldtype="null"The Triad: Three Civic Virtues That Could Save American Democracy". In the book, Brian offe…
Robert remembers being introduced to church and God for the first time when he was 7 years old by his Aunt who had come to take care of him after his mother died. When he was 12 or 13 he decided to …
Rob ascribes himself has a closet philosopher and student of comparative religions. Before becoming a Baha'i he had already noticed the basic oneness of all the religions. He shares an interesting …
Lea grew up in the southern United States during the early sixties and her awareness of the racial divide awakened about the time that Dr. Martin Luther King was assassinated when she was a teenager.…
Ian describes his growing up as a precocious kid who read the World Book Encyclopedia when he was young. Ian describes in the interview that his parents were devout Marxists and when he was 12, he d…
When Peter encountered the Baha'i Faith, it stimulated his spiritual awakening and search. As a result, he traveled across the country after college and found himself entangled in a cult. He tells …
Richard is an archivist and historian who has conducted research on the history of the Baha'i Faith in North America and the Middle East. His recent publications include: 1) An Iranian Enclave in Le…
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