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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]