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Join us for the Most Great Festival!

A bouquet of red roses

The Champaign Baha’i Community invites you to The First Day of Ridván, The Most Great Festival, during which Bahá’u’lláh declared his Station to the world. Friday, April 21, 2023 beginning at 2:30 pm at the Baha’i Center in Urbana, 807 E. Green Street

What Can We Do Now? A Statement from the Bahá'í Community

Diverse people, seated indoors, grouped in chair circles of 5-10 each

Our nation has reached a crossroad concerning racism and has started in a new direction. The history of America will reflect a coming-to-terms with long-standing, unequal treatment of people. Inequity and injustice have fragmented people’s relationships with one another. We must not go backward into denial, but instead must go forward into healing by championing the inherent dignity of all people. Awareness of the past coupled with action in the present will guide us in building new patterns of community life based on equality and fairness.

An Extraordinary Life

On November 27, 2021, Baha’is the world over will commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the passing of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, one of the three central figures of the Baha’i Faith.  He is not yet well known to much of the world, but his influence on the early Bahá'ís of Urbana was profound.  Born on May 23, 1844, he lived for 77 years, more than 40 years as a prisoner of conscience with His family in exile in the prison city of Akka in old Palestine.  Some of the first Bahá'ís in Urbana visited him in Palestine, others attended his talks in 1912 when he traveled in the United States for eight

A New Lamp program - WEFT 90.1 FM

Second Saturday of each month -1pm - WEFT 90.1FM - www.weft.org

Marilyn R. & Shaun David's program is now on it's second run! Although Marilyn and Shaun have now aired all of Marilyn's original WCMY Ottawa series, A New Lamp will continue in re-runs on WEFT Community Radio 90.1 FM!

Listen to previous New Lamp episodes!

A New Lamp is an expansion of Marilyn's original "A New Lamp" radio program which aired on WCMY radio in Ottawa, Illinois, in 2011.

A New Lamp is still a part of WEFT's Saturday Weekend Heartbeat line-up and it will continue to air every second Saturday of the month at 1pm.

Join us for the Most Great Festival!

A bouquet of red roses

The Champaign Baha’i Community invites you to The First Day of Ridván, The Most Great Festival, during which Bahá’u’lláh declared his Station to the world. Friday, April 21, 2023 beginning at 2:30 pm at the Baha’i Center in Urbana, 807 E. Green Street

What Can We Do Now? A Statement from the Bahá'í Community

Diverse people, seated indoors, grouped in chair circles of 5-10 each

Our nation has reached a crossroad concerning racism and has started in a new direction. The history of America will reflect a coming-to-terms with long-standing, unequal treatment of people. Inequity and injustice have fragmented people’s relationships with one another. We must not go backward into denial, but instead must go forward into healing by championing the inherent dignity of all people. Awareness of the past coupled with action in the present will guide us in building new patterns of community life based on equality and fairness.

An Extraordinary Life

On November 27, 2021, Baha’is the world over will commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the passing of ‘Abdu’l-Baha, one of the three central figures of the Baha’i Faith.  He is not yet well known to much of the world, but his influence on the early Bahá'ís of Urbana was profound.  Born on May 23, 1844, he lived for 77 years, more than 40 years as a prisoner of conscience with His family in exile in the prison city of Akka in old Palestine.  Some of the first Bahá'ís in Urbana visited him in Palestine, others attended his talks in 1912 when he traveled in the United States for eight

A New Lamp program - WEFT 90.1 FM

Second Saturday of each month -1pm - WEFT 90.1FM - www.weft.org

Marilyn R. & Shaun David's program is now on it's second run! Although Marilyn and Shaun have now aired all of Marilyn's original WCMY Ottawa series, A New Lamp will continue in re-runs on WEFT Community Radio 90.1 FM!

Listen to previous New Lamp episodes!

A New Lamp is an expansion of Marilyn's original "A New Lamp" radio program which aired on WCMY radio in Ottawa, Illinois, in 2011.

A New Lamp is still a part of WEFT's Saturday Weekend Heartbeat line-up and it will continue to air every second Saturday of the month at 1pm.

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