By Eric Stetson
I was an enrolled member of the Baha’i Faith from 1998 to 2002. Although I was very serious about my faith and took two trips halfway across America for evangelistic purposes (“travel teaching” in Baha’i lingo), I never visited the North American Bahai House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois — or any of the several [...]
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By Eric Stetson
His Holiness Bahaullah (also spelled Baha’u’llah or Baha’ullah; pronounced ba-HAH-oo-lah), is the founding prophet of the Bahai faith. He lived from 1817 to 1892. He was a Persian aristocrat who spent most of his life in exile and under house arrest, in various countries of the Ottoman Empire, because of his controversial religious beliefs and [...]
For three days last week, this blog was inaccessible and the address UUBahai.com was redirected by our web hosting company to a different website owned by one of our editors. A significant amount of data was lost by the hosting company, and yesterday we manually restored it to the blog’s database. Permalinks and the RSS feed [...]
Today is Naw Ruz — the Persian New Year — which is also a high holy day for Bahais and is celebrated on the vernal equinox, March 21, every year.
Naw Ruz is the first day of the year in the Bahai religious calendar. It is observed as a day symbolizing rebirth, renewal, new growth and [...]
As the website address indicates, this blog is written by UU Bahais. A UU Bahai is a Bahai within the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) – just as there are UU Christians, UU Buddhists, UU Pagans, etc. The UUA is an interfaith community of over 1,000 congregations based on a tolerant, open-minded, all-inclusive worldview.
The Bahai faith is now represented among [...]