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Cruisin’ the Caribbean With Unity Online Radio

Cruisin’ the Caribbean With Unity Online Radio

This November Unity Online Radio is hosting an inaugural cruise to the Caribbean. Cruisin’ the Caribbean With Unity Online Radio is a seven-day ocean adventure November 10–17, 2012.  

The cruise offers UOR listeners and their families and friends an opportunity to interact up close and in person with their favorite UOR hosts. Cruise activities will also encompass music, message, and daily meditation and workshops with participating hosts.

The cruise sails from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, aboard Holland America Lines’ Eurodam to enjoy sunshine, exceptional dining and a selection of island excursions at these ports of call:

The New Growth of Spring

Spring urges us to plant some, grow some and bloom some. Even before the earth and air really hint at warmth, green shoots push up through the brown ground with encouragement. “You can do it,” they say. “Look at us!”

With all the newness unfolding around us, we may begin to wonder if there might not be something new we'd like to see in our lives. There may be a new skill we have always wanted to learn or a healthier habit we feel would improve our life. We may long for closer connections to those around us—our family, friends and co-workers. We may find ourselves looking for ways to contribute to our community and make a difference in the world. 

Living a Life That’s Not Just Good, But Amazing!

Living a Life Thats Not Just Good But Amazing!

According to Rev. Temple Hayes, CEO and senior minister of First Unity Campus in St. Petersburg, Florida, when we were children, the world we saw was the size of the world we lived in. For Hayes, who grew up in a strict Southern Baptist community in a small town in South Carolina, that world was one where “everyone thought the same and never asked questions about anything in their lives, including about God.” Nevertheless, she says, she always felt called to make a difference in the lives of others.

How are we Different?

How are we Different? by Charles Lelly

It seems that we are continually being deceived about the answer to the question, What is the good life? Those who have things to sell are vying for our attention with a staccato beat that is seemingly endless. Usually the message is, “If you accept my product, you will find the good life.”

But most of us can remember how we dearly longed for a doll or a bicycle and earnestly believed that if we acquired that wonderful “thing,” we would be content and eternally grateful. What a blow to our philosophy when the luster disappeared soon after the acquisition! Then we usually said, “If only I could have this new thing—then I would be happy.”

Unity Institute and Seminary Attracts International Students

Unity Institute® and Seminary has been approved to accept international students into its new master-level program. Following 9/11, the government’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program required that all new curriculum offered through U.S educational institutions be approved prior to accepting international students. This approval plays a major role in allowing Unity to continue its long-standing tradition of educating students in the spiritual practices that reflect the mission and values of the Unity movement.

Lyceum Explores Spiritual World Views

Lyceum 2012

The goal of Unity Institute® and Seminary's annual Lyceum series of lectures is "To set before the world an academically grounded, high-quality presentation of topics in theology and religious studies compatible with a Unity point of view." Lyceum 2011, held April 13–16, did this and more.

Open to teachers, writers, scholars, students of spiritual and theological studies and the general public, this annual educational symposium attracts scholars and others from around the country. Presentations relate to global spirituality, theology, pastoral studies, theological ethics, world religions, history and metaphysical Christianity.

Make Joy a Habit

Make Joy a Habit

(Excerpt from the book Dare to Believe!)

Everyone wants to be happy. We know that the majority of people are eager to find happier ways of life.

Many persons are unhappy because they have not yet learned the art of living happily and joyously in spite of conditions and circumstances in their lives. But true happiness can be attained by anyone. Every one of us can learn to make joy a habit.

More Joy, Less Stress in Eight Easy Steps

More Joy, Less Stress in Eight Easy Steps

This article originally appeared in the May/June 2009 issue of Unity Magazine®.

Reducing stress is important, we’ve all heard it. Stress not only impacts your happiness, but your health. The American Academy of Family Physicians reports that two-thirds of all doctor visits are due to stress-related ailments. It’s also believed that 80 to 90 percent of all diseases are stress-related. And if you’re female, stress may be even more damaging to your health. Study after study has found that women suffer from both stress and depression more often than men.

Be!

Be!

We live in a world of light. We are ourselves light. ….

I have only to look … to taste … to feel, I have only to live—to know that the world is a work more wonderful than anything I can imagine it to be, anything I do imagine it to be! The wildest wonderment of all poets, dreamers, inventors, speculators that have ever lived is as nothing compared to the wonderment that is the world. The world is God’s wonderment, infinite intelligence compounding its infinity, the joy of eternity delighting in itself.

… For when I consider humanity, I catch a glimpse of God in whose image we are made.

Listen to life, and you shall hear the voice of life crying: Be!

What shall you be?

The Power of Joy

The Power of Joy

What is joy? In our process of maturing, we often think that joy is the result of happy circumstances. And it may be. I have seen a little rabbit run across the sidewalk and into the grass, and I had a feeling of joy.

We find joy in happy experiences and in our relationships with our loved ones. But joy is a deeper thing than just the result of happy circumstances. If it were only such a result, there would be times, many times, when we could not have joy; and in Truth, joy is always ours.

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