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  • 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.
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This Couple Has the Secret to Everlasting Love

December 20, 2022, in Videos > Documentary, by

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.

Radiance and her mother Barbara also spoke on our podcast, the Baha’i Blogcast, and they shared with us about activism and what we all can do to work towards racial harmony.

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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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