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Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Mehr Mansuri. Mehr grew up in Iran, England and the US. She left Iran to go to boarding school in England just before the Islamic Revolution. She came to the US after high school to go to university. After university she developed a thriving acting career. She also uses her voice over talents for audio books, one of which is Saffron Kitchen, where she provides about eight characters. She recently helped in the film “Precious” casting the children and directing the children. She is the co-founder of the non-profit organization Children’s Theatre Company.

Read more on A Baha’i Perspective 01.23.2010…

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Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Adrienne Carter, a mental health counselor who has worked with Doctors without Borders in Kosovo, Kashmir, Sri Lanka, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Malaysia, Russia, South Africa, and, Myanmar.

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Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Jane Jensen. Warren’s interview with Jane is a sequel to his interview with Paul Jensen. Jane’s sister became a Baha’i first. At first Jane gave no thought to her sister’s belief, even as she passed and ignored the Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette, IL just about every day. Once her sister got married, her brother-in-law gave her a book called “Thief In The Night”. It was that book that got her to consider the Baha’i Faith more seriously. Her life totally took a different turn after becoming a Baha’i.

Read more on A Baha’i Perspective 01.09.2010…

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Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Paul Jensen. Paul grew up in Denmark during WWII. He had a very adventurous spirit that took him first to Canada, then to the US, and then after becoming a Baha’i to the Bahamas and Panama.

Read more on A Baha’i Perspective 01.02.2010…

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Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Jack McCants, who was an ordained Methodist minister when he ran into the Baha’i Faith.

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Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Robert Sapiro. Robert loved both sports and acting, but acting became his predominant interest growing up. Then the last few years in high school he also discovered his enjoyment in painting. Robert went to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston studying painting. During his last year there, he became very interested in poetry. After college, he discovered the inner-comedian inside him. Robert describes how it was the Bahá’í art of consultation that attracted him to the Bahá’í Faith

Read more on A Baha’i Perspective 12.12.2009…

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Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Tahereh Daliri-Sherafat. Tahereh is of Persian heritage. She was born in Brazil and grew up there. Tahereh tells a very interesting story about, as a teenager, narrowly escaping a life-long affliction. After graduating from university, Tahereh went to Tanzania to work for a non-governmental organization or NGO. The NGO is called Chipua and it works with children who are expelled from school because they fail their entrance exams.

Read more on A Baha’i Perspective 11.28.2009…

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Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Raymond Greer. Raymond grew up in the Watts area of LA. He was in the movie business in the early 70’s first as an actor and then as a casting director. The last movie he was in was the Nutty Professor I with Eddy Murphy. After his acting career Raymond got involved with street youth counseling.

Read more on A Baha’i Perspective 11.21.2009…

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Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Scott Tyler. Scott is a Native American who grew up on the Makah Indian reservation in Washington state. His mother became a Baha’i when Scott was very young, so Scott grew up as a Baha’i. Scott went to college and got his degree in museology. He helped establish a museum at the Makah reservation. After finishing the project, he realized he wanted to be a doctor, so he went back to school and got his medical degree. He is now a family practice physician.

Read more on A Baha’i Perspective 11.14.2009…

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Warren Odess-Gillett interviews Ruth Forman. Ruth is a published poet whose works include "We Are The Young Magicians" (which was the result of her winning the prestigious Barnard New Women Poets Prize), "Renaissance", "Young Cornrows Callin’ Out The Moon", and "Prayers Like Shoes". You can also find her work on the Dawnbreaker Collective Anthology "Arise". Ruth was interviewed on NPR where she had the opportunity to read her work "Cornrows Callin’ Out The Moon". I play the interview later in the program.

Read more on A Baha’i Perspective 11.07.2009…

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