Louis Venters
Sep 3, 20236 min read
Race, Place, History, and Progress in SC's Baha'i Community
This is a bit late in coming as a blog post, but the sentiments are as fresh as they were last May. That's when I first heard that my...
Louis Venters
Sep 14, 20223 min read
South Carolina's Baha'i Movement, Past and Future
Baha’i communities around the world are embarking on a new Nine Year Plan set to last until 2031. As a part of the coordinated global...
Louis Venters
Aug 12, 20221 min read
Have book (and timely message), will travel!
Now that the public health situation in most areas is permitting more in-person gatherings, I'm eager to return to talking with people...
Louis Venters
Mar 12, 20215 min read
guidance from the universal house of justice for south carolina
Fifty years ago, the Baha’i movement in the United States was in the midst of perhaps its most dramatic and consequential transformation...
Louis Venters
Dec 5, 20201 min read
UPCOMING: Online Talk at S. DeKalb Baha'i Unity Center
I'm looking forward to presenting via Zoom for the Sunday morning devotional gathering sponsored by the Baha'i Unity Center in South...
Louis Venters
Aug 26, 20202 min read
My New Book Now Available at Bahaibookstore.com!
Since the onset of the global health crisis, like so many people in the United States and in other countries, new and challenging...
Louis Venters
Dec 5, 20192 min read
"Be Trustworthy among His Servants": Timely Advice to the World's Parliaments
These days, when policy questions of epochal magnitude face governments everywhere and the constitutional order in a number of countries...
Louis Venters
Dec 4, 20191 min read
UPCOMING: Pee Dee Author Expo
Dear family, friends, coworkers and neighbors in the Pee Dee area, please join me and more than a dozen other local authors for the Pee...
Louis Venters
Jul 9, 20191 min read
UPCOMING: Book Talk in Phoenix
I'm happy to be traveling to Phoenix, AZ this weekend for a talk about my new book, A History of the Baha'i Faith in South Carolina. I'll...
Louis Venters
May 11, 20185 min read
From Chile to Cambodia, New Baha'i Temples Embody Fresh Hopes
A new story from the Baha'i World News Service recounts how the new House of Worship in Santiago, Chile, has become a part of the broader...
