When Teresa Langness’ daughter Katy was a child, grandparents on each side of her family told the girl their religion was the only path to God, but their religions were not the same.
Katy asked her mother to help her investigate different religions.
Langness herself had questioned the beliefs she’d been taught as a child, so she encouraged her daughter, and eventually both agreed on the Baha’i faith after reading a book about it.
“My ideals have taken over my life,” Langness said. “I have a sense of purpose from a deep place within me that was unlocked when I became a Baha’i.”
She focuses on loving and serving all humanity and protecting the planet because the Baha’i religion believes in doing good to everyone, everywhere.
Like most major religions, hers teaches that people should not kill, and should love their enemies and neighbors. Members believe prophets like Buddha and Jesus have come about every thousand years to remind us of that.
”Neighbors now include everyone on our planet,” Langness said.
Because of her faith, Langness founded Full Circle Learning, a nonprofit educational program for children that is now used in 27 countries.
She got the idea for that program after the Los Angeles racial riots in 1992.
She previously worked for a textbook company and wrote advertising copy, but now she writes to teach the Baha’i principles of unity between all people and helping others.
For example, the theme of her novel, Nine O’Clock Blue, helps to combat racial prejudice.
Langness has written over 36 books and is a full time writer.
She is proud that her daughter, who is now an adult, has spent her life helping others, and that her family now includes people of various races and national origins.
Langness formerly participated in the Baha’i community in Los Angeles, which had thousands of members and a big temple. In this area, there are about 50 members and they don’t have a temple.
Instead, they meet in various places such as members’ homes.
The Baha’i religion was officially founded in the 1800s, but the concept originated in the Middle East in the 1600s.
They don’t have any clergy, and physical centers only exist in big cities. People must be 15 years old to officially join.
The local Baha’i community has study groups, devotional gatherings and administrative meetings.
On the second Monday of each month, they gather in the Cedar Park Community Room at 210 Sutton Way at 7 p.m.
On the last Mondays at 7 p.m., their Spiritual Book Club meets at the Madeline Helling Library. Child care can be provided on request.
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