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After observing my upstairs neighbors sterling qualities I asked him what his religion was...he told me "Baha'i Faith". I just stood there and cried, my heart knew it finally found what it was seeking. I considered myself a Baha'i that very second, it was a few months later that I found out there was a process to bec...oming a Baha'i. I declared as soon as I could-call me "resourceful"!Read More

I won't tell you how I became a Baha'i in October 1959--fifty years ago. But I posted an introduction to the paradigmatic shift in the Baha'i community, the new culture of learning and growth that is at the heart of this paradigm, 18 to 24 months ago. I did this posting at several internet sites. It seemed like a good... idea to give readers some specific steps on how to access this now revised article/essay at Baha’i Library Online(BLO).

In that two year period there have been many thousand views of my article at the few sites where it is posted. The steps to access my article are simple: (i) type Baha’i Library Online or Baha’i Academics Resource Library into your search engine; (ii) click on the small box “By author” at the top of the access page at BLO; (iii) type “Price” into the small box that then appears and click on the word “Go;” and then (iv) scroll down to article/document item #46 and (v) click on that item and read to your heart’s content.Read More

About 15 years after graduating from high school, I went back to college and met a very pretty young lady from Italy (named Dorothy). Her English was perfect, so much so you would have thought she was from the US heartlands! Turns out she spoke three languages fluently. I was impressed with her strong sense of self a...nd quiet self-assurance. And unlike so many of her peers, she was not put off by my 'advanced years' (being over 30!). We had coffee a few times during which she introduced me to the Baha'i Faith. She invited me to a Unity Feast at her grandmother's house (where she was living while at the University). I borrowed some introductory books (being an avid reader), but despite the power of Baha'u'llah's message, I just wasn't ready to give up some of my vices at the time. After putting all religion aside for the next 15 years, I came upon a reference to the Faith in my reading. I bought some books and not long after set aside my childish things and embraced the Faith.Read More

Learned about the Baha'i Faith with my then-boyfriend, now husband of 20 years, from his jazz instructor at WSU, Craig Owens. Started hanging out at their house (God bless them, we spent a LOT of hours there and they had 4 children and a lot of other things to do but always had time for us) and read a lot of the Writin...gs and talked about the Baha'i Faith. Raised a Mennonite but found the Baha'i Faith was the fulfillment of all I had wanted and believed.Read More

I was being nice to an old lady... My elderly neighbor was a Baha'i and asked me and other neighbors to a fireside. I went, but no one else did. I felt kind of sorry for her and started visiting her every Friday. Since I wasn't really looking (that I knew of) and her memory was failing, it took me about a year to r...ead enough to notice I completely accepted Baha'u'llah's teachings and the proofs that He was a messenger of God. That was in 1985. By the way, those of you born into Baha'i families made the decision to be Baha'i at some point, whether you know it or not. "Many are called, but few are chosen."Read More