The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective Picking up from the previous post: Beyond Restoration – Hope for the New World, I’d like to continue breaking down the First Great Blessing. The paragraph starts: “The key to God’s first blessing is the perfection of individual character. …to perfect his character, he must form a […]
How long will you live and what will you do in that time? No one really knows, but at different points in life we end up making and remaking life plans or goals. This journey of life is a very long road with many twists and turns, hills and valleys, and pit stops. Sometimes we […]
The Three Objects Purpose In the last article, I had explained that the Universal Prime Energy is endowed to the universe by God and it allows the universe and everything and everyone in it to exist, to act, and to multiply. The next sections in the Principle of Creation are “The Three Object Purpose” and […]
This article is the second in a series of three, on the concept of the “three great subjects”. In the Appendix of the textbook New Essentials of Unification Thought, the notion of three great subjects is described in this way: “The three great subjects thought is an expression coined by Rev. Sun Myung Moon. The […]
Up until now, my articles on Unification Thought have drawn largely on the chapter “The Theory of Ethics” from the textbook New Essentials of Unification Thought. But the textbook has an Appendix which contains related and very practical ideas which I consider very closely related to the Theory of Ethics. One of these important ideas […]
An RYS story by John W. Gehring A Time of Political and Social Transition During the closing years of General Marcos’s rule in the Philippines, in an act based on political calculation, many families living on squatted land in Manila were forcibly relocated in an effort to avoid civil strife. Das Marinas, a small coastal […]
Up until this point, I’ve written mainly about ethics and morality within the family. But I’d like to step back and look at one basic, underlying assumption that’s been implicit in everything I’ve thus far mentioned — and that is the notion of order and position. However, even as I write these words, I’ve a […]
In this sequence of articles on Unification Thought, I’ve been laying out some big ideas about ethical behavior. But as thought-provoking and enlightening as big ideas may be, it’s in the actual day-to-day practice that learning happens. Through practice, a basis for deeper understanding is created. And practice needs outward patterns of behavior to reinforce it, because […]
During weeks 5 & 6 (July & Aug. 2013) of Hyomi’s initial Peace Corps training in Swaziland she learns about local religion and spirituality and how it influences the culture. She also pays a visit to the village where she will be permanently assigned, and meets the new host family. Below are a few excerpts […]
Life Begins and Progresses through Family “You don’t choose your family. They are God’s gift to you, as you are to them.” – Desmond Tutu “A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” – George Bernard Shaw “The family is the first essential cell of human society.” – Pope John XXIII “If a country is to be corruption […]
