A Bahá'í Perspective

What's A Bahá'í Perspective about?

A Bahá'í Perspective is a podcast of biographical interviews of people who have either chosen the Bahá'í Faith as a way of life or who have a relationship with the Bahá'í Faith.

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A Bahá'í Perspective episodes:

07.28.2023
A Bahá'í Perspective: Navid Lancaster
Naviacute;d is a musician, music producer and the owner of href="https://lancastltd.com/" target="_blank"LANCAST Ltd, an independent company that creates music for film, animation, video games and mobile applications. Navid tells his story about learning the guitar as a teenager...
06.21.2023
A Bahá'í Perspective: Masud Olufani
Masud is an artist, writer, and an actor. He talks about his spiritual journey and his work in the interview. You can find his work at href="https://www.masud-olufani.com/" target="_blank"https://www.masud-olufani.com/. I caught Masud while heading out from his studio. As a...
03.09.2023
A Bahá'í Perspective: Llewellyn Drong
Llewellyn was raised in the Disciples of Christ church, its origins coming out of the Second Great Awakening in the early 19th century in the US when protestant Christianity was spread through revivals. Llewellyn tells his story of...
10.31.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Andrew Sperandeo
Andy is an experienced and well-versed musician in many disciplines of music including guitar, singing, composing, arranging, teaching, and music producing, and has been performing for over 25 years. He has selected a number of his musical compositions for...
09.18.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Olya Roohizadegan
Olya grew up in Iran under the severe persecution of the Iranian Islamic regime after the 1979 Revolution. She along with 10 other women were arrested soon after, for being Baha'is. All of her 10 women companions were...
08.31.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Winnona Merritt
Winnie grew up as a poor northern girl who married into a well-to-do Southern family and started raising a family in the early 1960's. Before becoming a Baha'i, she was involved in promoting racial justice in her own small...
08.21.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Nadema Agard
Nadema is a Native American artist with her own business called Red Earth Studio Consulting / Productions. Before creating her own consulting and curating business, she had done important work by helping create the Southeastern Native Arts Directory and...
08.10.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: June Manning Thomas
June is the Centennial Professor Emerita of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Michigan#39;s Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, where she also is the Mary Frances Berry Distinguished University Professor Emerita of Urban Planning. She...
07.25.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: John Clark
John is a jazz horn player and composer. He invented his unique horn with the same range as the french horn, called the hornette. He's released 7 albums. We feature songs he has composed in the interview....
07.13.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Lisa Haese Smith
Lisa is a musical composer, performer, teacher, and film scorer. In 2001 she put together her earliest piano compositions and has since produced 4 other CDs. When I asked Lisa to select six musical pieces to feature on the...
07.01.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Ben Guterson
Ben is an author of middle-grade novels, and had recently published his fourth book, The Einsteins of Vista Point. His previous work is the Winterhouse trilogy which has been translated into ten languages and even received notice from some...
06.21.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Vivian Bartlett
The tragic death of Vivian's brother when he was a teenager was the impetuous to Vivian and his mother searching for a spiritual reason for this traumatic loss that led them to the Baha'i Faith. Vivian is now retired...
06.08.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Carolyn Sparey Fox
Carolyn is a professional musician, published author, and painter. She was principal viola with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, based in Edinburgh and a member of the BBC orchestra. She wrote a play called Threads which she was able...
05.27.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: KC Porter
KC is an American record producer, singer-songwriter, arranger and composer. He was nominated for more than six Grammy Awards and winner of 1, and winner of two Latin Grammy Awards. His father is the famous arranger href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Porter_(record_producer)"...
05.15.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Dorothy Marcic
Dorothy is a professor at Columbia University, author and playwright. She served as advisor to the US Ambassador of the Czech Republic and was a delegate to both the United Nations Economic and Social Develop Summit in Copenhagen and...
05.10.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Mary Perkins
Mary was born and raised in the west of Wales and has worked for eight years in Africa - in Lesotho, in Uganda where she became a Bahaacute;'iacute;, and in Cameroon where she met and married Richard Gray, an American...
04.30.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Shameem
href="http://www.shameemmusic.com/" target="_blank"Shameem is an Australian singer-songwriter, whose diversity in heritage (her father is Chinese-Malaysian and her mother is Iranian) influences her eclectic approach to music. She has produced a number of albums and she has selected songs from three...
04.23.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Gary Fleming
Gary holds Bachelor#39;s and Master#39;s degrees in Cultural Anthropology as well as a degree in Law. He has been involved in international development projects in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria, Jordan, Egypt, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Australia. Gary now has a private...
04.10.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Zarrin Caldwell
Zarrin is a journalist and one who as worked in international affairs, As part of her attraction to the world#39;s wisdom and spiritual traditions, she created The Soul Salons podcast and href="https://thesoulsalons.com/" target="_blank"website showcasing teachers and works...
03.27.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Colby Jeffers
href="https://www.colbyjeffers.com/" target="_blank"Colby is a musical artist from the Phoenix area, who has been making Baha'i-inspired hip hop since around 2012. He has produced five albums and his most recently released album is entitled " href="https://music.apple.com/us/album/created-noble/1592585024" target="_blank"Created Noble". The...
03.07.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Bruce Koerber
Bruce was a student of Austrian economics at Auburn University shortly after the href="https://mises.org/" target="_blank"Ludwig von Mises Institute was established. In 2004 he had a dream of an economic model that he called the href="https://www.divineeconomytheory.com/" target="_blank"Divine Economy Model....
02.26.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Tara Jabbari
For over 10 years Tara has worked in all aspects of digital media, from videos, social media to podcasting. Working as a podcast producer, she has connected experts and entrepreneurs with podcasters to promote and educate listeners across the...
02.19.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Wolfgang Klebel
Wolfgang was born in Vienna, Austria shortly before World War II. He became a Catholic priest, studying at the best Catholic universities in Rome and Austria. Eventually, however, after moving to California, he left the priesthood and became a...
02.05.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Robert Weinberg
href="https://www.robert-weinberg.com/" target="_blank"Rob has worked as a broadcast journalist and produced radio programs for both the BBC and independent radio in the United Kingdom. He is also the author of several major biographies including Ethel Jenner Rosenberg in 1995,...
01.24.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Taraz Nosrat
Taraz is a recent graduate of Texas Aamp;M University, where he studied biomedical engineering. However his first passion was always music. During a year off university studies, Taraz produced his first musical album of spiritual songs called href="https://bahaimusicstore.com/taraz-nosrat-the-divine-spark" target="_blank"The...
01.15.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Felipe Duhart
href="http://www.felipeduhart.com/" target="_blank"Felipe is a guitarist, composer and musical producer living in Santiago, Chile. Primarily an improvisational musician, his style is influenced by jazz, Latin American music and rock. He has recorded as a guitarist on 10 CDs and 2...
01.01.2022
A Bahá'í Perspective: Fereshteh Bethel
I had interviewed Fereshteh href="http://bahaipodcast.com/assets/mp3/abp-232.mp3" target="_blank"before on this program and we reconnected. She proposed that we talk about the gun culture here in the US. We had been planning this interview for many months, so it is...
12.28.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Hooshmand Badee
Hooshmand has lived amongst both the poorest nations and the wealthiest nations of the world for more than four decades, where he witnessed inequality in standards of living and the widening gap between the rich and the poor. It was...
12.23.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Rebecca Johnston-Garvin
Rebecca is a singer-songwriter who has produced five musical CDs and an audiobook. We play selections from her CDs href="https://9starmedia.com/rebecca-johnston-garvin-alientame?zenid=ev9ct88lqbs1l2puj92qfg48v7" target="_blank"Alientame, href="https://9starmedia.com/rebecca-johnston-garvin-conscious-peace?zenid=ev9ct88lqbs1l2puj92qfg48v7" target="_blank"Conscious Peace, href="https://9starmedia.com/rebecca-johnston-garvin-befriend-me?zenid=ev9ct88lqbs1l2puj92qfg48v7" target="_blank"Befriend Me, and href="https://9starmedia.com/rebecca-johnston-garvin-pioneer-winds?zenid=ev9ct88lqbs1l2puj92qfg48v7" target="_blank"Pioneer Winds. Her most recent...
12.15.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Shango Dely
Shango is a music producer and performer (playing drums, singing, and playing different kinds of flutes and other instruments). He produced and recorded an album called href="https://bahaimusicstore.com/leonor-dely-millero-congo-talisman" target="_blank"Talisman that features musical compositions by his mother, Leonor Dely. ...
12.06.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Sheyda Do'a
href="https://sheydadoa.com/" target="_blank"Sheyda is a pianist, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and mathematician. She draws on her multicultural heritage and her upbringing in Albania to blend traditions and sounds into music for the soul, one that inspires across cultures and generations. Her first...
11.26.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Genevieve Labbe
href="https://genevievelabbe.com/" target="_blank"Genevieve is a singer-songwriter whose music is inspired by many years of travels and is infused with jazz and world beat music.. In 2009 she produced her first children's CD called href="https://bahaimusicstore.com/genevieve-labbe-sunshine-in-you?zenid=592g2nu3hl4oqpm4954vgf3a44" target="_blank"Sunshine in You. She...
11.19.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Carolyn Cruikshank
Carolyn and her husband Don started a camp in Vermont in the 60's in which kids from diverse backgrounds, and from both privileged and underserved communities, came together and learned outdoor living skills. The camp was called High Rise....
11.06.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Mark Sisson
Mark is a professor of film, television amp; media arts at Southwestern College in Chula Vista, CA. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), School of Theater, Film, amp; Television...
10.31.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Shar Mitchell
href="https://www.sharmitchell.com/" target="_blank"Shar, holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Indigenous Studies and has travelled to more than 40 countries, including being a guest of the Berber nomads in the Spanish Sahara, the Aborigines in far northern Queensland, Australia, and the...
10.20.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Audrey Mellard
Audrey introduces us to her first biography entitled " href="https://www.grbooks.com/products/when-reason-sleeps-the-story-of-a-bahai-arrested-imprisoned-and-executed-and-his-wifes-escape?variant=39384217190539" target="_blank"When Reason Sleeps: The Story of a Baha'i arrested, imprisoned, and executed and his wife's escape". The protagonist is a woman from Iran named Mehrangiz or Mehri by those...
10.10.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Jeanne Gazel
Jeanne is Director of the Multi-Racial Unity Living Experience, which her students adoringly refer to as href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcoC5Vb4_6Iamp;t=1s" target="_blank"MRULE. MRULE is an undergraduate race relations program dedicated to social justice at Michigan State University. She is an affiliate faculty...
09.30.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Serge Frasunkiewicz
Serge is an accomplished jazz pianist, arranger, composer and educator. Serge has an early education bi-lingual school based on the arts called Affinity Arts International School {https://www.affinityarts.com.br/}, which we talk about in the interview. In the interview we play...
09.07.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Clyde Herring
Clyde describes her spiritual search starting with her southern baptist background. Her spiritual exploration leads her to Islam and then ultimately to the Baha'i Faith. Once she became a Baha'i her horizons widened that included a trip to Zimbabwe...
08.15.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Deborah Vance
Deborah has a PhD in Intercultural Communication from Howard University. She is an artist and freelance writer. Her many varied occupations include teaching piano, copyediting, translating, designing gardens, working on radio documentaries and a kids#39; educational TV series,...
07.27.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Hushidar Motlagh
Hushidar is professor emeritus at Central Michigan University. He taught courses in psychology of human development, educational psychology, mental health, and creativity. He is the author of more than 50 volumes. His works cover the subjects of the Bible,...
06.06.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Tadia Rice
Tadia co-produced and performed the musical drama A WOMAN AND HER WORDS, a theater production based on the true story of href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%A1hirih" target="_blank"Tahirih, a woman whose compelling but obscure life has been hidden from the western world until now,...
05.26.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Eric Harper
When Eric was 7 years old he was in the kitchen doing the dishes when a song came on the radio. He doesn't remember which song it was, but he does remember the feeling that song gave him. He immediately...
05.20.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Elaheh Bos
Elaheh noticed a sense of anxiety in her young daughter and decided to create a children's book to help her daughter. That one children's illustrated book grew to a website called href="https://www.plantlovegrow.com/" target="_blank"plant-love-grow and she has been writing,...
05.16.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Alhan Irwin
I recorded an interview with Alhan Irwin, her brother Abir Majid, and her sister Ruwa Pokorny. Their mother, Anisa Abdul-Razzaq Abbas, wrote a memoir entitled href="https://www.bahaibookstore.com/Without-Hesitation-P10100.aspx" target="_blank"Without Hesitation, about her imprisonment for being a Baha'i in Iraq. Alhan...
05.09.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Janet Fleming Rose
Janet has had a varied career that had live and work in such diverse places as Scotland, Fiji in the South Pacific, the Republic of Maldives in the Indian Ocean, and Haifa in Israel where she served in the Baha'iacute;...
04.29.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Eduardo Rioseco
Born in the light of the inauguration of the href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiago_Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%AD_Temple" target="_blank"Baha#39;i House of Worship in Chile, a wonderful new musical initiative was created by a group of three Baha#39;is in Santiago, Chile who call themselves ldquo; href="https://bahaimusicstore.com/arrayanes?zenid=rln2eub2s60a08juhvsce70n81" target="_blank"Arrayanesrdquo;. Arrayanes...
04.18.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Wade Fransson
Wade grew up in a dysfunctional family in which he lived with a drunken mother after his parents divorced. He was then kidnapped by his father and then later returned to his mother again who was still in the...
04.11.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Jody Cooper
Jody Cooper is a singer songwriter who was part of the a cappella group Sense of Sound in Liverpool, whose collaborations include Seal, Damon Albarn, Jon Bon Jovi and Imogen Heap. You can find Jody's music on his website...
04.03.2021
A Bahá'í Perspective: Mikhail Sergeev
href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCITKM95wJYBo8NJimK36yLg" target="_blank"Mikhail was born and raised in Moscow, where he received his bachelor#39;s degree in international journalism. In 1990 he moved to the United States to pursue his doctoral studies. Mikhail works as an adjunct professor of religion and...

What's A Bahá'í Perspective about?

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A Bahá'í Perspective episodes:

A Bahá'í Perspective: Navid Lancaster

A Bahá'í Perspective: Masud Olufani

A Bahá'í Perspective: Llewellyn Drong

A Bahá'í Perspective: Andrew Sperandeo

A Bahá'í Perspective: Olya Roohizadegan

A Bahá'í Perspective: Winnona Merritt

A Bahá'í Perspective: Nadema Agard

A Bahá'í Perspective: June Manning Thomas

A Bahá'í Perspective: John Clark

A Bahá'í Perspective: Lisa Haese Smith

A Bahá'í Perspective: Ben Guterson

A Bahá'í Perspective: Vivian Bartlett

A Bahá'í Perspective: Carolyn Sparey Fox

A Bahá'í Perspective: KC Porter

A Bahá'í Perspective: Dorothy Marcic

A Bahá'í Perspective: Mary Perkins

A Bahá'í Perspective: Shameem

A Bahá'í Perspective: Gary Fleming

A Bahá'í Perspective: Zarrin Caldwell

A Bahá'í Perspective: Colby Jeffers

A Bahá'í Perspective: Bruce Koerber

A Bahá'í Perspective: Tara Jabbari

A Bahá'í Perspective: Wolfgang Klebel

A Bahá'í Perspective: Robert Weinberg

A Bahá'í Perspective: Taraz Nosrat

A Bahá'í Perspective: Felipe Duhart

A Bahá'í Perspective: Fereshteh Bethel

A Bahá'í Perspective: Hooshmand Badee

A Bahá'í Perspective: Rebecca Johnston-Garvin

A Bahá'í Perspective: Shango Dely

A Bahá'í Perspective: Sheyda Do'a

A Bahá'í Perspective: Genevieve Labbe

A Bahá'í Perspective: Carolyn Cruikshank

A Bahá'í Perspective: Mark Sisson

A Bahá'í Perspective: Shar Mitchell

A Bahá'í Perspective: Audrey Mellard

A Bahá'í Perspective: Jeanne Gazel

A Bahá'í Perspective: Serge Frasunkiewicz

A Bahá'í Perspective: Clyde Herring

A Bahá'í Perspective: Deborah Vance

A Bahá'í Perspective: Hushidar Motlagh

A Bahá'í Perspective: Tadia Rice

A Bahá'í Perspective: Eric Harper

A Bahá'í Perspective: Elaheh Bos

A Bahá'í Perspective: Alhan Irwin

A Bahá'í Perspective: Janet Fleming Rose

A Bahá'í Perspective: Eduardo Rioseco

A Bahá'í Perspective: Wade Fransson

A Bahá'í Perspective: Jody Cooper

A Bahá'í Perspective: Mikhail Sergeev