Louis Venters
- Sep 3, 2023
- 6 min
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, 2022
- 3 min
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, 2022
- 1 min
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, 2021
- 5 min
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, 2020
- 1 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2019
- 2 min
"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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2019
- 1 min
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, 2018
- 5 min
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...