Are Affirmations Truly Powerful?

In Unity, we practice affirmative prayer and encourage the use of positive affirmations as a strategy for spiritual growth. Along with silent mediation, affirmative prayer is at the heart of Unity Principle #4. Still, many people new to Unity demonstrate resistance or...

Spiritual Principles Are Principled Too! – Part 2

With this article, we conclude our month long series exploring the principles of spiritual truth. If you have been reading along, then you know that the first 2-part article titled “The Principles of Principle” described five fundamental characteristics that must be...

Spiritual Principles Are Principled, Too! – Part 1

For the past two weeks, I have written on the underlying principles of principle. I asked the question, what are the fundamental characteristics that a principle must have in order to be elevated to the status of truth principle? If you have been reading along, then...

The Principles of Principle – Part II

In Part I of this two-part article, I described the evolution of my personal experience with learning to live the fundamental truth principles that underlie all Unity teachings. I articulated how learning, or rather memorizing, the five short statements that comprise...

The Principles of Principle – Part 1

Unlike many other Christian traditions, Unity has no dogmatic creed in which one must profess their faith in order to be a member. While Unity is decidedly Christian in its orientation, it does not teach in a top down, hierarchical manner. There is no rigidly codified...

Living The Truth We Know

According to renowned Unity minister and author Eric Butterworth, the great challenge of our age is the virtual absence of meditation from our daily lives. Butterworth describes meditation as the “art of lowly listening.” In Unity, the fourth principle teaches that...
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