Why Baha'i

shane — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 10:32:02 -0500

Alvin Bitsilly
Mexican Springs, N.M.
Baha'i since 1991

Before discovering the Baha'i Faith in the late '80s, I was into drugs and alcohol and living a real trashy life. I had just started to try to get my life together.

Why Baha'i

shane — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:41:10 -0500

BJ Lee, Baha'i since 2006
Eloy, Arizona

I was confirmed a Catholic -- my mother’s doing. My father was Jewish and an agnostic. Both raised me to question things and to accurately interpret information, which is what I did when searching for a religion starting in the ‘70s.

Why Baha'i

shane — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 17:35:10 -0500

Veronica Fairchild
Sun Valley, Nevada
Baha'i since 2004

I was born and raised Mormon. I attended until I was about 17, but stopped attending because the church wasn’t treating my family the way I thought Jesus would treat His brothers and sisters.

Why Bahá'í

shane — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:44:19 -0500

Mary Jo Adams
Reno, Nevada
Bahá'í since 2007

I was raised Catholic, and for much of my youth dreamed of becoming a nun. But eventually I found I didn’t agree with much of the doctrine and felt unmoved by the services.

Why he switched

shane — Fri, 30 May 2008 16:40:54 -0500

Thom Thompson, author of Questions from Christians about Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith, talks about his conversion from Christianity to the Baha'i Faith, and the similarities and differences between Baha'is and Christians on CBS-TV’s “Issues of Faith.”

Why Bahá’í

shane — Wed, 21 May 2008 15:04:05 -0500

Stephen and Megan Morris
Albuquerque
Bahá’ís since summer 2006

Having moved away from the southern Baptist church, the religion of his youth, Stephen Morris thought he was doing fine with his self-created belief system.

Why Baha'i

shane — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:12:04 -0500

Ed LaBonte
Athol, Massachusetts
Baha'i since November 2007

After being an atheist my whole life, I decided, as part of a midlife crisis, that there had to be something out there that was better than nothing. Secular humanists say you have to make your own meaning, but when you’re faced with a gigantic universe that doesn’t care about you, it’s hard to do.

Why Baha'i

shane — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:37:33 -0500

Greta and John Perrine
Flint, Michigan
Baha'is since 2005

Why Baha'i

shane — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 18:06:06 -0600

Cary Enoch Reinstein
Fort Valley, Georgia
Baha'i since 1963

If I hadn’t offered a pretty girl a can of beer at a 1963 Fourth of July party in the Berkeley Hills of northern California, I probably wouldn’t have come across the Baha'i Faith quite so soon.

Why Baha'i

shane — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:41:53 -0600

Karen Webb
Centerville, Utah
Baha'i since 1971