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Family Ethics Begin With Loving Oneness

The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective. The Second Blessing, part 9 In the last two articles, we’d been looking at the “vertical” expression of love — from the elders “downward” to their juniors, and also from the young ones “upward” to their elders. The main form of love downwards is benevolence and the […]

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Divine Principle from a Unification Thought Perspective

In the last article, I had explained that the Universal Prime Force 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. (To avoid confusion, I must mention that in Unification Thought, the translation from Korean is written as Universal Prime Force, […]

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The Divine Principle from a Unification Thought perspective

Unification Thought is a philosophical expression of the teachings of Rev. Sun Myung Moon. Those teachings were first published in English as the “Divine Principle”, but that book is very theological in nature. It contains numerous remarkable insights on the Bible which, when strung together, provide a profound understanding of God, humans, and the universe. […]

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Family Ethics and Education

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 […]

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Saturday’s Seminar

This past Saturday, May 11th, I was privileged to attend a Divine Principle Seminar taught by Gerard Servito from the Unification Thought Institute. There were 20 of us, ranging in age from 18 to 65, and everyone was equally moved by the content. Unlike other DP seminars I’ve attended in the past, this one was focused through […]

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