Suzanne Ament, a Radford University professor and convert to the Baha'i faith, sings at the YMCA in Blacksburg at one of the Baha'i communities weekly cultural events.
On a quiet Sunday afternoon in Baha'i youth education, retired Tech professor Cosby Rogers is calmly encouraging five-year-old Amelia Lester to offer her interpretation of the day's Baha'i prayer. After several false starts, Amelia sings: "Oh my Lord, oh my Lord," and then, with a broad smile, "I love everybody!"
Half a world away and six years prior, Maziar Fahandezh Sadi arrived at his Iranian college entrance examination. He simply left the space on the form marked religion blank. He knew that filling in "Baha'i," a faith outlawed in Iran but founded by a Persian and still popular there, would ensure his inability to attend Iranian higher education.
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