A Bahá'í Perspective

Born and bred in Louisville, KY, Ryan became a Baha'i while in high school, but it was when he was in Zambia that he realized what it was to serve the Baha'i Faith. At around 12, Ryan got interested in rap music. He is now a professional musician and is in a group called href="http://CommonMarketMusic.com"Common Market. They have produced 4 projects either as CDs or as digital downloads.nbsp; I caught Ryan on the go, so he's conducting the interview while traversing Seattle. So you hear a lot of traffic in the background. Ryan says he is constantly around traffic.

Bob grew up in Belfast, Northern Ireland. His parents had him on a tight leash growing up, so when his parents died when he was 18, Bob decided to travel all over the world. Unfortunately he found his life heading downhill for the next 20 years as he was searching for something. He's now retired and feels that he's found what he was looking for.

A 3rd generation American Baha'i now living in Washington DC. She had traveled all over the world and one of her occupations was to write and broadcast for the Voice of America.

A racial and cultural diversity trainer who is now integrating spirituality into his training curriculum and is author of the book " href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooksamp;field-keywords=Seeing+Heaven+in+the+Face+of+Black+Menamp;x=0amp;y=0" target="_blank"Seeing Heaven in the Face of Black Men"

Paul was born and raised on the north shore of Boston. Growing up Paul was a tinkerer from an early age and is now an industrial modeler. Paul became disillusioned with Christianity and rejected religion totally. It was not until he shared a paranormal experience with his young daughter that triggered his spiritual search.

An educator, who at a young age was driven to understand the basis of Judaism and Christianity and all the world's religions. Alex wrote a book that introduces Christians to the relationship between the Bible and the Baha'i Faith, called " href="http://www.amazon.com/Preparing-Christs-Name-Alex-Gottdank/dp/0879612673"Preparing for Christ's New Name".

Bill is the former director of the href="http://www.louhelen.org/" target="_blank"Louhelen Baha'i School in Davison, Michigan. He is now the executive director of a 501(c)(3) organization called href="http://www.diplomaplus.net/" target="_blank"Diploma Plus.

A Baha'i currently residing in Budapest who directed the film Mocha Frapuchino and has started a Baha'i audio books project. You can see the trailer for Mocha Frapuchino at href="http://www.mochafrapuchino.com/" target="_blank"www.mochafrapuchino.com, and you can see his audio book project at href="http://www.voicesdivine.com/"www.voicesdivine.com.

Amy is a young woman who grew up in Honduras. soon to graduate and pursue a life of service. When Amy was 16, a tragic event confirmed her faith.

Steve grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area. His parents were singers active in the Lutheran Church, so music was a very important part of Steve's growing up. He was actually going to study to become a concert pianist but was discouraged. Steve tells his very interesting story on how he ran into the Baha'i Faith.

Mehr grew up in Iran, England and the US. She left Iran to go to boarding school in England just before the Islamic Revolution. She came to the US after high school to go to university. After university she developed a thriving acting career. She also uses her voice over talents for audio books, one of which is href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0143141821" target="_blank"Saffron Kitchen, where she provides about eight characters. She recently helped in the film " href="http://www.weareallprecious.com/" target="_blank"Precious" casting the children and directing the children. She is the co-founder of the non-profit organization href="http://www.childrenstheatrecompany.org/about-mission.htm" target="_blank"Children's Theatre Company.

A mental health counselor who has worked with Doctors without Borders in Kosovo, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, and, Myanmar.

My interview with Jane is a sequel to my interview with Paul Jensen. Jane's sister became a Baha'i first. At first Jane gave no thought to her sister's belief, even as she passed and ignored the Baha'i House of Worship in Wilmette, IL just about every day. Once her sister got married, her brother-in-law gave her a book called target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Thief-Night-Talisman-Books-No/dp/085398008X""Thief In The Night". It was that book that got her to consider the Baha'i Faith more seriously. Her life totally took a different turn after becoming a Baha'i.

Paul grew up in Denmark during WWII. He had a very adventurous spirit that took him first to Canada, then to the US, and then after becoming a Baha'i to the Bahamas and Panama.

This week is fund raiser week at Valley Free Radio so there is no interview to post this week.nbsp; Instead I am posting a piece by Margaret Tash about the Baha'i perspective on nutrition.nbsp; Enjoy!nbsp; I'll have an interview for next week.

Jack was an ordained Methodist minister when he ran into the Baha'i Faith.

Rob loved both sports and acting, but acting became his predominant interest growing up. Then the last few years in high school he also discovered his enjoyment in painting. Rob went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston studying painting. During his last year there, he became very interested in poetry. After college, he discovered the inner-comedian inside him. Rob describes how it was the Bahaacute;'iacute; art of consultation that attracted him to the Bahaacute;'iacute; Faith

Tahereh is of Persian heritage. She was born in Brazil and grew up there. Tahereh tells a very interesting story about, as a teenager, narrowly escaping a life-long affliction. After graduating from university, Tahereh went to Tanzania to work for a non-governmental organization or NGO. The NGO is called href="http://www.chipua.org/" target="_blank" Chipua and it works with children who are expelled from school because they fail their entrance exams.

Raymond grew up in the Watts area of LA. He was in the movie business in the early 70's first as an actor and then as a casting director. The last movie he was in was the Nutty Professor I with Eddy Murphy. After his acting career Raymond got involved with street youth counseling.

Scott is a Native American who grew up on the Makah Indian reservation in Washington state. His mother became a Bah#225;'#237; when Scott was very young, so Scott grew up as a Bah#225;'#237;. Scott went to college and got his degree in museology. He helped establish a museum at the Makah reservation. After finishing the project, he realized he wanted to be a doctor, so he went back to school and got his medical degree. He is now a family practice physician.