safnet.com has been Stephen A. Fuqua's online home since 1998,
succeeding earlier University accounts dating to 1995.
Professionally, Stephen is a software engineer and open source advocate.
Stephen is a member of the Bahá'í Faith and tries to infuse its principles of unity in diversity, equality, consultation, and more into practice in all aspects of life. Currently, he serves on the board of the South Central Regional Training Institute, an agency that oversees spiritual education programs for all ages in the four-state area of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas. He has been an active participant and facilitator of faith-based advocacy on topics of climate change, biodiversity, and interfaith cooperation and understanding.
He is also passionate about enjoying and protecting the natural world, with special interests in birds and the food webs they rely on (plants, insects). You may notice that he's easily distracted by movement of small creatures in trees and grasses
"If the learned and worldly-wise men of this age were to allow mankind to inhale the fragrance of fellowship and love, every understanding heart would apprehend the meaning of true liberty, and discover the secret of undisturbed peace and absolute composure."
~ Bahá'u'lláh, Lawḥ-i-Maqṣúd ~
The stylized logo above was AI-generated from a prompt for a stylized Black-chinned Hummingbird.