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Stephen is a physicist living in the Silicon Valley and working in the semiconductor industry. He has done pioneering experiments in quantum optics, optical telecommunications, and photonics, and is author of 46 technical papers, seven patents, and numerous scientific conference presentations. He has written and spoken frequently on science and religion and its relationship to the Bahaacute;#39;iacute; teachings, and is cofounder of the Science and Religion Special Interest Group of the Association for Bahaacute;#39;iacute; Studies. He also is a cofounder of href="http://www.commongroundgroup.net/"Common Ground, a blog devoted to faith, reason, science, and religion, and Japan#39;s Association for Bahaacute;#39;iacute; Studies.

Anne and her husband created the production company Perry Productions and produced the documentary film Luminous Journey: 'Abdu'l-Baha in America, 1912. 'Abdu'l-Baha is the son of the prophet founder of the Baha'i Faith, Baha'u'llah. 'Abdu'l-Baha came to Americal in 1912 to promote his father's teachings. You can find the trailer for the film at href="http://luminousjourney.org/"LuminousJourney.org. Anne tells her story on how she found the Baha'i Faith and how arts is an important aspect of her expression of her faith

Mark is a web graphic designer. He describes his spiritual journey that includes his study of Wushu and his work with the actor Jet Li. Mark had several opportunities to live in China and describes his time there.

Author of three works: href="http://www.amazon.com/Rejoice-My-Gladness-Life-Tahirih/dp/1931847843"Rejoice in My Gladness: The Life of Tahirih, nbsp;nbsp; href="http://www.amazon.com/Love-Which-Does-Not-Wait/dp/1890101176"A Love Which Does Not Wait, and nbsp; href="http://www.bahaibookstore.com/productdetails.cfm?PC=9290#.UaEWZ9LbPp0"The Nightingale, Baha'u'llah.nbsp;

Author of href="http://www.amazon.com/Bahai-Basics-Beliefs-Practices-History/dp/1618510177"Baha'i Basics: A Guide to the Beliefs, Practices and History of the Baha'i Faith, and the book href="http://www.amazon.com/Abraham-Three-Wives-Five-Religions/dp/1931847894"Abraham: One God, Three Wives, Five Religions.

A native of the San Francisco Bay Area, Nwandi received a degree in broadcast journalism from Howard University. Upon graduating from Howard University, Nwandi began teaching eighth-grade social studies, literature and language arts in the San Francisco Bay Area before accepting a position at CNN in Atlanta in 1992. At CNN, she became Associate Producer for three prime-time news broadcasts. In 1994, she was hired as Associate Producer for the TBS children#39;s series ldquo;Feed Your Mind.rdquo; For more than a decade, Nwandi has enjoyed working on all sides of many productions: anchoring Georgia Public Broadcasting's political series, ldquo;Lawmakers,rdquo; reporting for ldquo;Georgia Business Reportrdquo; and ldquo;Success Trackrdquo;. In 1999 Nwandi started her own production company called href="http://reveproductions.net/"Reve Productions. One of her most successful productions was Atlanta Public Schools Today or just APS Today which aired on Georgia Public Broadcasting stations. We share her vision on a very interesting project she aspires to produce.

Bruce is a musician who has recently released a collection of songs called href="http://www.brucegrover.org/"Be/Still. Earlier in Bruce's musical career he was in a rock band called href="http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/littlea"little a. nbsp;During the interview we discuss and sample some of the songs from Be/Still.

Adib is a Baha'i from Haiti who is currently an engineering student at the University of Massachusetts. Adib has the unique distinction of being born in Haiti and grew up there all his life, yet his parents are Iranian. Adib was in Haiti at the time the earthquake struck. We talk about the earthquake and other aspects of Haiti.

Homa is author of the book " href="http://www.growingupglobal.net"Growing Up Global: Raising Children to Be At Home in the World". She has spent her career helping governments develop globally oriented programs and advising businesses on how to thrive abroad.

A Baha'i now living in England who grew up in Colombia and is the former care taker for the Baha'i House of Worship in Panama. Nina had a near death experience when she was 3 or 4 years old which seemed to drive the direction of her life. She takes us through her spiritual journey in this interview.

Cary is a photographic artist who uses a variety of both traditional and digital darkroom techniques to, "go beyond the limitations of the camera to achieve a personal style." You can find his work on his website href="http://www.enochsvision.com/"EnochsVision.com.

Pascal grew up in Burundi under extreme violent conditions, both within his family and out. He provides an enlightening historical perspective on the situation both in Burundi and Rwanda.nbsp; He is now in the US finishing his education.

A woman who pursued a 9 year search for truth and feels that she has now found her spiritual home.

Sandy is a professional musician who has a CD called Prayers that you can find on iTunes.nbsp; I include a couple of songs during the interview and I play two more of Sandy's songs after the close of the interview.

Lillie is a 90 year old woman who became a Baha'i in the 60s in the south as a result of her son becoming a Baha'i. She talks about the effects of segregation on the Baha'i community at that time. You can hear her son, Rick, in the background helping Lillie in the interview.

Darlene is a painter from Canada. We discuss her painting and the source for her inspiration.nbsp; You can find her work at href="http://www.onemoon.ca/"onemoon.ca.

Four years ago I interviewed Phyllis and Gene and at that time they were traveling the US in their RV and drafting stories about the work in the field of race unity to be developed into a book. Well they're back this time on a road trip promoting their just published book href="http://www.storiesofracialhealing.com/"Longing: Stories of Racial Healing.

Mona was raised in a Persian Baha'i family that immigrated to the United States in the early 1970's before the revolution in Iran. She grew up in a small town outside of Philadelphia, PA. Her professional career included working several years in the broadcasting industry as a television news reporter for an ABC-affiliate in upstate New York. She shares with us her story of how being a Baha'i has shaped and defined both her professional and personal life.

Baha'is who have dedicated their lives to the education of children all over the world.

A Baha'i who has dedicated his life to innovating teacher education.nbsp; He was the dean of the college of education at the University of Mass. from 1968 - 1978.nbsp; He is co-author of the book href="http://www.amazon.com/American-Schools-Billion-Dollar-Challenge/dp/075955000X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8amp;s=booksamp;qid=1270912888amp;sr=1-1"American Schools: The 100 Billion Dollar Challenge with Bill Cosby.