We’re 1 year old!

December marks the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Baha'i Newsletter and the launch of the new design of our site: www.bahai.us. We hope you like the newsletter and are finding what you are looking for on our award-winning site.


1st Year Anniversary for Bahai.usWe wish to thank all our newsletter subscribers and Web site visitors for helping make these efforts successful. We encourage you to share these resources with friends and family. If there’s something you’d like to see in these pages, please let us know: communications@bahai.us .

We are continually adding new features to our Web site. If you click the Multimedia tab and go to podcasts, you can hear interviews with Baha’is such as Martha Martinez, a student at Springfield Technical Community College in Massachusetts, whose family found the Baha'i Faith after investigating several other religions; Michael Greenlee, a musician who became a Baha'i at age 16 and for his college thesis wrote a cantata using the words from the writings of Baha’u’llah; and Michael Penn, professor of psychology at Franklin & Marshall College in Pennsylvania, talking about the relationship between culture and psychopathology, hope and hopelessness, and human spiritual development. Others simply share from their heart what it means to be a Baha’i.

Another new feature in the Multimedia section of the Web site is a link to the Baha’i National Center’s recently launched channel on YouTube where you can see videos such as Baha’is who recount their experience going on pilgrimage at the Baha'i World Centre in Haifa, Israel, and a never-before-launched video, "Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith.“ A wonderful piece of footage on the site is an early-'70s interview of Dizzy Gillespie conducted by Seals and Crofts.

“Many of our offices have great things like photos and videos of special events or historical figures in the Faith that were stored away and forgotten,” says Shane Lamberth, digital asset coordinator at the Baha'i National Center’s Office of Communications.

“I was thrilled when I saw the footage of Dizzy Gillespie and Seals and Crofts. I look forward to seeing what else is stored in the archives office and Media Services Department.”

Stay tuned for more developments!