“You’ll be happy to know I got religion: I’m a Baha’i!” My guitar teacher’s enthusiastic annunciation during another failed attempt to learn that instrument in the mid-80s launched a quest that would change or affect me in ways I could never imagine. But, more about that later. This part of the site represents the fruit of my intense six-year research and immersion into the Baha’i community, presented here for anyone interested in this syncretistic blend of Shi’i and Sufi Islam, colonialism, and a tide of optimism that swept across the globe in the late 19th century.
I am reentering the world of Baha’i and posting anecdotes and updates to the blog under the title My Baha’i Journey: A Christian’s Independent Investigation of the Truth. I will present a brief historical and doctrinal introduction from an Evangelical Christian perspective at a popular reading level. I will contrast and compare the Baha’i faith with historic Christianity, avoiding a hard, polemical edge while highlighting distinct differences between these two exclusive world religions.
This project could develop into a complete book, but that is not the current plan.
The first offering under this category is A Critical Examination of 20th Century Baha’i Literature, a paper I wrote for presentation at the Arc Symposium on Cults, the Occult and World Religions at William Tyndale College, August 16-18, 1990. It was a major paper, one of 9, chosen from about 100 submissions by a panel of scholars that included Dr. Norm Geisler.
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