The Festival of Ayyam-i-Ha lasts from Feb. 26 until March 1. The Baha'i calendar consists of 19 months, each 19 days long, equaling 361 days. Ayyam-i-Ha or the Intercalary days last four days during regular years and five days during a leap year like 2012. This period brings the Baha'i...

About 75 people gathered Sunday afternoon for the dedication of Phase I of the University of Denver Holocaust Memorial Social Action Site. Represented at the event were Holocaust survivors, donors, faculty from the Center for Judaic Studies and the Iliff School of Theology, graduate, undergraduate and high school students, and...

Baha'is around the world commemorate the Martyrdom of the Bab this July 9. The Bab, a merchant who was born Siyyid 'Ali Muhammad, had declared in 1844 that He was a Messenger of God sent to initiate a new age for humankind. His turbulent ministry lasted a brief six years...

In Shiraz, Persia during the night of May 22, 1844, a twenty-four-year old merchant, Siyyid 'Ali Muhammad, declared that He was a Messenger of God sent to initiate a new age for humankind. He took the title, the Bab, meaning the "Gate." On May 23, members of the Baha'i Faith...

Baha'is all around the globe are celebrating the 12-day Festival of Ridvan from April 21 to May 2. The Festival of Ridvan marks the public announcement by Baha'u'llah, the Founder of the Baha'i Faith, of His Prophethood to His companions and family prior to His banishment to Istanbul...

March 21, Naw-Ruz ("new day" in Persian), is the Baha'i New Year and is also an Iranian cultural holiday. Naw-Ruz has ancient roots in early Persian agricultural society and has been celebrated for some 3,000 years at the vernal equinox to mark the coming of Spring. Iranian Muslims,...

Members of the Baha'i Faith around the world begin a season of fasting March 2. "I love that each day of the Baha'i Fast begins in the darkness before dawn when all is silent and I am a bit weary of winter. I say dawn prayers. Each morning...

Andrew Bowen, 28, of Lumberton, N.C., is spending the 12 months of 2011 being "spiritually promiscuous," he says with a wry sense of humor. Each month he immerses himself in a different religion, adopting its rites and rituals, learning from its prayers and scriptures, meeting with its believers and sharing...

For a time, my grandfather, Jack Dew, directed the choir for the renowned Christian evangelist Billy Sunday. In the 1920s and 1930s Billy Sunday was a traveling preacher who visited places throughout the United States. My mother, who is now 88 years old, was born in a tiny town in...

Today is a family reunion. And, as at all family reunions, some of the guests and celebrants are close relatives and know each other very well. Others are distant relations and may just be getting to know each other or may not even have met. As at any family reunion,...