Ridvan celebrates Baha’u’llah’s time in 1863 in the garden of Ridvan in Baghdad when He publicly declared His station as a Manifestation of God. The Ridvan Festival is 12 days long and is also the time of year when Baha’is elect their governing bodies.
In the Baha’i teachings marriage is referred to as “a fortress for wellbeing” and family is considered a fundamental and indispensable unit of society and the mainstay of community life.
This video clip was produced by CNN as part of filming for its series titled “This is Life with Lisa Ling”. In this clip, Lisa Ling meets Maxine and Jim Oliver who credit their decades-long marriage to the teachings of the Baha’i Faith. This clip didn’t make it into the final edit of the episode on the subject of interracial love and the Baha’i Faith, but it was shared on CNN’s website as it captures a very sweet story.
Lisa Ling interviewed Baha’i couples after reading a series of articles by Radiance Talley on Bahaiteachings.com about interracial love and marriage.
In her innermost heart, Sonjel is a stay-at-home parent and a bookworm with a maxed out library card but professionally she is a museologist with a background in English Literature. She currently lives on Prince Edward Island, an isle in the shape of a smile on the eastern Canadian coast. Sonjel is a writer who loves to listen to jazz when she's driving at night.
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