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OPEN HOUSE:  The Yellow Springs Baha’i Center is now open every TUESDAY 11:00 – 1:00.  Come on in to ask your questions, watch a documentary, browse our library or to have a meaningful conversation. You are welcome whether you’re just a little curious or want to go deeper.

The Baha’i Center located at 502 Dayton Street in Yellow Springs. (Blue house at the corner of N. High & Dayton St.) For other localities see Miami Valley Baha’is or Ohio Baha’i Communities

For a one on one conversation or a home visit call 937-767-7079.

Various community members offer to host devotionals and holy days as a service to the community. If you would like to be reminded by email send your email address to: ysbahai@gmail.com to join our email list.

Calendar of Events 2023

Sunday, January 19, & February 16, 1:00 Devotional / Discussion Abdu’l-Baha’s message of Race Unity in America / Response of Black Intelligentsia

In 1912 Abdu’l-Baha, the appointed Head of the Baha’i Faith, visited America. His call for race unity in America attracted the attention of the American press, and especially the Black press and the Black Intelligentsia; people like W.E.B. DuBois and Alain Locke, the acknowledged “Dean”—of the Harlem Renaissance. We will explore the impact Abdu’l-Baha’s approach to race unity had on the early American Baha’is as well as the evolution of the nascent Civil Rights Movement.
“We’re going to let our children know that the only philosophers that lived were not Plato and Aristotle, but W. E. B. Du Bois and Alain Locke came through the universe.”  – Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. 

(hosted by Susan Tower)

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The Passing of Kevin Edward Locke (Lakota name: Tȟokéya Inážiŋ, meaning “The First to Arise”; June 23, 1954 – September 30, 2022) was of Lakota descent of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and Anishinaabe of White Earth. He was a preeminent player of the Native American flute, a traditional storyteller, cultural ambassador, recording artist and educator. He was best-known for his hoop dance, The Hoop of Life.

Note: Kevin has performed in Yellow Springs throughout the years. Kevin Locke was scheduled to come to the Dayton/Springfield/Cincinnati the first week of October. He passed on to the next world on September 30, 2022. We share this video with you so that you can appreciate the artistry of this wonderful human being and the message of the Oneness of Humanity he shared with the peoples of the world.

*Abdu’l-Baha (1844-1921), eldest son of Baha’u’llah and His chosen successor, was known as an ambassador of peace, a champion of justice, an advocate for race amity and equality and the leading exponent of a new Faith. Through a series of epoch-making travels to Africa, North America and Europe,`Abdu’l-Bahá–by word and example–proclaimed with persuasiveness and force the essential principles of His Father’s religion. Upon His death ten thousand people–Jews, Christians, and Muslims from all denominations–gathered on Mount Carmel in the Holy Land to mourn his passing. Today He is embraced by more than 5 million Baha’is as the perfect Exemplar of what it means to be a Baha’i.

Black History in the Baha’i Faith:

Abdu’l-Baha’s* Race Amity Work in America in 1912 – 1921 and the Black Intelligentsia who took notice –  List of Topics  – Schedule Your Personal Story Hour or a Group Presentation  – Call 937-207-2486 or email ysbahai@gmail.com