Though the established Circle of Light Baha’i School at Johns Hopkins University just resumed its centralized, September-through-May rounds of Sunday devotion and instruction, the 150-year-old unity faith it promotes is stressing greater local outreach in anticipation of the day when all religions will be one.

“The ‘promised day’ is a day for unity,” said Geri Lynn Peak, a Chinquapin Park Baha’i who regularly hosts youth study groups at her home. “It’s a day for us to break down our allegiance to nations and [races] — all of the illusions that we’ve constructed — and realize that there is one humanity, one world, and that we are brothers and sisters.”