God’s Little Jokes

How and why I became a Baha’i

The Baha’i House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois. © Dale E. lehman.

Roy had a curious sense of humor. This particular joke, though, turned out peculiar.

Roy and I were roommates in our freshman year at Northwestern University. We lived on the third floor of McCulloch Hall at the north end of campus. We’d been placed together on account of certain commonalities. We both had an interest in physics and played trombone…