UNITY of the White Mountains
welcomes everyone to join us in fellowship, worship and prayer. We are here to share the message of Positive, Open, Practical Spirituality
and the universality of the Christ-presence in us all.
2. Our very essence is of God, and therefore we are inherently good. We have the Christ Spirit within.
3. We create our experiences through the activity of our thinking. Everything in the world has its beginning in thought.
4. Positive prayer and meditation are creative ways to heighten our connection with God and therefore bring forth wisdom, healing, prosperity and everything good.
5. We practice the truth we know and share it with others through thought, word and deed.
How do “Unity people” describe Unity?"
Excerpts from article by Lila Herrmann
as published on Unity's website, http://unity.org
"Often people want to know if Unity is a religion. There are differing opinions about this within Unity. Many people say that Charles and Myrtle Fillmore started Unity as a spiritual movement in the 1800s, offering a positive, practical, progressive approach to Christianity. While Unity does not subscribe to dogma or doctrine, there are more than 900 Unity churches worldwide, which lead some like Rev. Tom Shepherd to say, “Of course Unity is a religion. What else could it be?”
Sally Falk, Web designer for Unity...describes Unity as a movement that is “a love-based form of Christianity, which respects all paths to God and is very open and practical.” Falk finds that most people are open to Unity's philosophy because Unity is open to all people.
Diane Shireman, fundraising manager and former Unity employee...lets people know that Unity can be a supplemental spiritual tool, which can support rather than replace an individual's existing belief system.
Rev. Thomas Shepherd offers a more academic explanation of Unity. He says, “Unity is a Protestant Christian movement which recognizes that there are truths to be discovered in all the religions of humanity … (It offers) a recognizable theology grounded in rather ancient Christian mysticism and in Ralph Waldo Emerson's American Transcendentalism.”
Shepherd summed it up. “Unity is culturally Christian, spiritually unlimited."