Brilliant Star, a bimonthly children’s magazine published by the National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the United States, has won an APEX 2008 Award of Excellence for the second year in a row.
Lisa Blecker’s Blessed Is the Spot: A First Prayer Book with animated DVD transforms a much-loved prayer by Baha’u’llah into a multimedia experience that sends souls and hearts soaring no matter what your beliefs.
Throughout the United States Baha’is are inviting spiritual seekers to enrich their spiritual and community life through such activities as prayer gatherings, weekly study of the Baha'i scriptures and classes for the spiritual education and training of children.
Baha'i author and educator Morris Taylor speaks about the importance of spiritual education in society. Engaging stories and solid data illustrate the Baha'i perspectives on education, the family and the responsibility of teachers (15 minutes). Download
Children from all communities and religions are invited to audition for a soon-to-be established House of Worship children’s choir.
In yet another escalation of the persecution of Baha'is in
Ethiopian children now can tune in to the country's first show to use puppets and animation in an educational context, thanks to the brainchild of Baha'is Shane and Bruktawit Etzenhouser.
This Halloween, many Baha’i children will be fighting global poverty as they trick-or-treat for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
Teachers, by their nature, have a notable goal. But Nanci Aiken ups the ante even more. As founder and executive director of Children's Success Academy, a five-year-old K-5th grade charter school in Tucson, Arizona, Aiken wants to do more than educate. She wants to "serve humanity," which is one of the tenets of the Baha'i Faith, to which she belongs.