Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His Shining Circle, by Janet Ruhe-Schoen

Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His Shining Circle, by Janet Ruhe-Schoen

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Champions of Oneness tells the story of outstanding Bahai teachers during the early years of the twentieth century 1898-1911. Nearly all of them had the fortune of meeting, at one time or another, Abdul-Baha, the son of Bahaullah. Their meetings with Abdul-Baha would inspire them to teach the Faith of Bahaullah in the United States. This act of service often led them to encounter great suffering at the hands of those who resisted change and wanted the old way of doing things to remain the same. Racism, sexism, and economic inequality were only a few of the hardships these brave men and women had to suffer. Prominent among them was Louis Gregory, who embodied the suffering and triumphs that African Americans experienced during this time, and a group of outstanding Bahai'shis shining circlewho accompanied him in righting the wrongs of this period. This book is their storya story of suffering as well as triumph in the face of overwhelming odds. As racial prejudice, gender prejudice, and economic hardship continue to plague the United States, it is hoped that the biographies of these brave men and women will inspire Americans today to champion justice and equality in their daily lives.

Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His Shining Circle, by Janet Ruhe-Schoen

• Amazon Sales Rank: #393370 in Books
• Brand: Ruhe-Schoen, Janet
• Published on: 2015-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.90" h x .80" w x 5.90" l,
• Binding: Paperback
• 282 pages

Champions of Oneness: Louis Gregory and His Shining Circle, by Janet Ruhe-Schoen

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. This is a wonderful book! Well written By M. Kathryn Jewett This is a wonderful book! Well written, it brings these early pioneers in the promotion of the oneness of mankind to life. It provides an excellent glimpse into the challenges of racism. Truly inspiring!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. a more personal companion volume to "A Love that Cannot Wait" By Amazon Customer This is a companion piece to a book many of us have loved "A Love That Cannot Wait" about nine early American Baha'is--eight of them women!--who performed sacrificial and even heroic services for the refreshing new Faith. This work focuses on Louis Gregory, the second black American Baha'i, who was posthumously appointed to the highest individual station among Baha'is, a Hand of the Cause of God. Associated with him was another handful of transformed people--some overlapping from the first group--all coming to embody the truth that to be a Baha'i was to be free of racial prejudice, "the most challenging issue" in American society. What particularly connects the two books is a theme of immense significance in the context of religious history: the presence in America of a new Faith's Promoter, as if Joshua, Peter or Ali had come to the States and mingled here for nine months as did 'Abdu'l-Baha, the appointed son of Baha'u'llah. His influence was deeply transformative on those He met, sometimes even when it was a casual encounter. The nature of these two groups of Baha'is testifies to a regenerative Divine energy flowing through a new Revelation. Ruhe-Schoen's sprightly-solemn style is equal to the task, demonstrating in its buoyancy and sparkle the lovable eccentricity of these individuals, raised up as individuals but also as agents of oneness and community. This book is more personal than the first, a fact which gives an added dimension in structure and texture, for the book opens with an account of Janet as a hippy-style seeker in the sixties sitting rapturously at the feet of elderly Baha'is in the northeast, and comes full circle to a moving view of Doris McKay as aging widow striving to establish the Faith on Prince Edward Island and finally, after decades of "friendly indifference," attracting bands of young people fascinated by her vision of a glorious future. Part of the hope Doris represents is that she, nearly alone among the two groups of sterling Baha'is, has not actually met 'Abdu'l-Baha. The others have been able to convey the energies of the Faith, transforming an avowed racist with roots in the south into a true champion of oneness. Ruhe-Schoen's book, too, is a delicious fruit springing from a tree planted long before her birth.

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