BJ Lee, Baha'i since 2006
Eloy, Arizona

I was confirmed a Catholic -- my mother’s doing. My father was Jewish and an agnostic. Both raised me to question things and to accurately interpret information, which is what I did when searching for a religion starting in the ‘70s.

Veronica Fairchild
Sun Valley, Nevada
Baha'i since 2004

I was born and raised Mormon. I attended until I was about 17, but stopped attending because the church wasn’t treating my family the way I thought Jesus would treat His brothers and sisters.

Mary Jo Adams
Reno, Nevada
Bahá'í since 2007

I was raised Catholic, and for much of my youth dreamed of becoming a nun. But eventually I found I didn’t agree with much of the doctrine and felt unmoved by the services.

Thom Thompson, author of Questions from Christians about Baha'u'llah and the Baha'i Faith, talks about his conversion from Christianity to the Baha'i Faith, and the similarities and differences between Baha'is and Christians on CBS-TV’s “Issues of Faith.”

Stephen and Megan Morris
Albuquerque
Bahá’ís since summer 2006

Having moved away from the southern Baptist church, the religion of his youth, Stephen Morris thought he was doing fine with his self-created belief system.

Ed LaBonte
Athol, Massachusetts
Baha'i since November 2007

After being an atheist my whole life, I decided, as part of a midlife crisis, that there had to be something out there that was better than nothing. Secular humanists say you have to make your own meaning, but when you’re faced with a gigantic universe that doesn’t care about you, it’s hard to do.

Greta and John Perrine
Flint, Michigan
Baha'is since 2005

Cary Enoch Reinstein
Fort Valley, Georgia
Baha'i since 1963

If I hadn’t offered a pretty girl a can of beer at a 1963 Fourth of July party in the Berkeley Hills of northern California, I probably wouldn’t have come across the Baha'i Faith quite so soon.

Karen Webb
Centerville, Utah
Baha'i since 1971

Ted Taylor
Eugene, Oregon
Baha'i since 1990