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, 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
Oct 8, 20192 min read
"Bind Ye the Broken with the Hands of Justice"
A couple of weeks ago at an interesting forum hosted by the SC Human Affairs Commission and the SC Collaborative for Race and...
Louis Venters
Aug 20, 20192 min read
"Where Is the White Professor Located?"
It's the first day of the fall semester at my university, and my thoughts have been turning, as they often do, to the nature and purpose...
Louis Venters
May 20, 20191 min read
My Interview at Baha'i Blog
Check out this interview I did with Baha'i Blog, a great site that provides high-quality, thoughtful content for Baha'is and their...
Louis Venters
Nov 6, 20183 min read
White Americans, Whither the Country?
As a Baha'i, I consider voting in civil elections to be a sacred duty, one part of a life of service aimed at fostering justice, peace,...
Louis Venters
Jul 11, 20181 min read
"White People Us," by Justin Blackburn
Whoa! I'm not a poet, and I try not to curse quite as much as this guy, but his analysis of whiteness is pretty spot-on. I've been...
