Derek grew up in Lancashire England. At about the age of 15, Derek started looking at other religions such as Buddhism, Zoroastrianism and Islam. He also ran into the Bah#225;'#237; Faith at that time but didn't seriously look into it until he returned from Cambridge where he had studied economics. Derek tells a funny story about his introduction to the Bah#225;'#237; Faith.

Carol is a Bah#225;'#237; from the Denver area. She grew up in Buffalo, NY, then moved to NJ and finally settled in the Denver metropolitan area in her teenage years. It was while she was in middle school in Denver that she and her mother discovered the Bah#225;'#237; Faith.

Jean grew up in the segregated south and became involved with the civil rights movement, starting in the early sixties with the NAACP and then later with the Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE). When she moved to California her social activism widened to include the antiwar and antipoverty movements. She eventually moved to western Massachusetts where she ran into the Bah#225;'#237; Faith.

Bruce is not a Bah#225;'#237;. He heard my program on Valley Free Radio and contacted me with an interesting proposal. What if we do an someone who is not a Bah#225;'#237; and has questions about the Bah#225;'#237; Faith. I thought this was an interesting idea, so I went along with it. It turned out to be a wonderful experience.

Harry is a Bah#225;'#237; from Jamaica that was passing through after being in Haifa, Israel as a delegate from his country to elect the world governing body of the Bah#225;'#237;s called the Universal House of Justice. Since I had some time after Harry's interview, I decided to play the audio from an information video on the history of the Bah#225;'#237; Faith since Harry had touched on it briefly in the interview.

Mike ran into the Bah#225;'#237; Faith when he and his best friend from high school were seekers of spiritual truth. This search lead Mike to Sufism and then ultimately to the Bah#225;'#237; Faith.

A Bah#225;'#237; who grew up in a little town called Camphill, AL during the segregated '60s. She was despised both by the white and the black members of her community because of the lightness of the color of her skin, so she turned to books. However, her mother would beat her when she found out she was reading. When she turned 18 she went off to college to be as far away as possible. She majored in English and became an accomplished journalist.

My son, Damian, was in the Washington, DC area and had an opportunity to interview Layli Miller-Muro at the Tahirih Justice Center. Layli is the founder and executive director of the Tahirih Justice Center, which is a free legal service for women and girls who are fleeing human rights abuses. She co-wrote a book titled Do They Hear You When You Cry? which describes the immigration case involving female genital mutilation that inspired the creation of the Tahirih Justice Center.

An 82-year old Bah#225;'#237; who had a career in television in the fifties with a TV show in California called Dottie Hansen's High Time, which was a teenage dance show. The unique thing about Dorothy's show at that time was that it was racially integrated, which at times got her into trouble. Like the time she danced with an African-American on the show. She was threatened to be taken off the air. Her show ultimately won an Emmy. After becoming a Bah#225;'#237;, Dorothy traveled to more than 50 countries.

Allison was raised as a Bah#225;'#237; and she spent her formative years living in India where she went to the New Era High School, where her parents were administrators. Allison speaks of her time there and the adjustment she had to make coming back to the states.