Podcasts about unity worldwide ministries

This week, Reverend Jackie Hawkins reminds us with this talk that "You Are Made for These Times." Rev. Jackie Hawkins, a nurturing spiritual leader with extensive experience, including senior minister at Unity of the Heartland, roles with Unity Worldwide Ministries' Credentialing and Leadership Recruitment and Development Teams, and active involvement in the Silent Unity Prayer Ministry. Deeply rooted in New Thought teachings since the 1980s, Rev. Jackie's ministry empowers individuals with practical spiritual wisdom, fostering leadership growth, community healing, and personal resilience. This talk was recorded live at Unity San Francisco on April 6th, 2025.  

Send us a Text Message.Rev. Saba has been a been a student of spirituality, metaphysics and the New Thought teachings for his entire adult life.  He began his formal studies in 1975 at the Brooklyn Truth Center, under the leadership of Rev. Don Nedd.  While there, he served on the Board of Trustees, was the church administrator and sponsor for the youth group and the Young Adults for Better Living. He studied at the Johnnie Colemon Institute and was ordained by Rev. Johnnie Colemon in 1986.  Since then, he has served in several ministerial positions and on a number of Boards, including the Universal Foundation for Better Living Board, where he served for 20 years.  In 2010, Rev. Saba was called to be the minister/spiritual leader of Unity of Huntington, on Long Island, NY.  This is a diverse and dynamic ministry that is a member of Unity Worldwide Ministries.  Rev. Saba is currently the Vice President of the Board of Directors of the Unity Worldwide Ministries Eastern Region.  He is also a Founding Member and President of the People of African Descent New Thought Group, Inc.  Rev. Saba has written articles for various Unity publications, including the recent booklet, “Turn On the Light – The Timeless Wisdom of Eric Butterworth.” In addition, Rev. Saba is active in his community and is the President of the Central Long Island NAACP, as well as the Treasurer of Hollywood Lodge #92 PHA, F. & A.M.Rev. Saba graduated from New York University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Elementary Education. He receives loving support in the ministry and in life from his wife, Cheryl, a psychotherapist.Support the Show.Donate – CelesteFrazier.com

Rev. McDowell interviews the Rev. Shad Groverland, the CEO of Unity Worldwide Ministries about what Unity is, what Unity offers to people, and how to help our expand the impact of Unity and the New Thought movement Check out Rev. Gaylon McDowell on Facebook Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

President and CEO of Unity Worldwide Ministries, Rev. Shad Groverland, speaks on Unity principles, our relationship with God, and leads a meditation.

Reverend Duke Tufty was born in the beautiful town of Sioux Falls, South Dakota. One of four children, he was raised to someday take over the family business which was an automobile dealership. His father died when Duke was 24 years old. Duke, his brother Ted and sister Trudy inherited the business. After fifteen years in the business Duke had a spiritual awakening and discovered the automobile business was not for him. He embarked on a spiritual path that led him to Unity. Eventually he became the Senior Minister at Unity Temple on the Plaza as well as Chairman of the Board of Directors for Unity Worldwide Ministries located at Unity Village. Duke cherishes his family life with his wife, kids, and grandkids. Email: Duke@unitytemple.com unitytemple.com

oin Constance and her special guest Greta Counts who is a newly published author of Mirror Work Works, 21-Day Self-Love Experience (www.MirrorWorkWorks.com). Greta is the CEO and founder of the Center for Self-Awareness and a Licensed Practitioner in Metaphysics with the Centers for Spiritual Living ™ and Emerson Theological Institute. She is also a Hay House accredited Heal Your Life © Licensed Workshop Facilitator, Certified Life Coach, and Spiritual Leader with Unity Worldwide Ministries. Greta shares with listeners a holistic approach to building a loving relationship with the most important person you will ever meet...YOU. You will gain an understanding that The Mirror Work technique is a wonderful power tool that you can use to change how you see yourself and create a more loving relationship with yourself and others. Mirror Work lifts the veils of illusion about your unworthiness, feelings of insecurity, inferiority, and inadequacy. It diminishes the imposter syndrome and reveals the love already within you.

oin Constance and her special guest Greta Counts who is a newly published author of Mirror Work Works, 21-Day Self-Love Experience (www.MirrorWorkWorks.com). Greta is the CEO and founder of the Center for Self-Awareness and a Licensed Practitioner in Metaphysics with the Centers for Spiritual Living ™ and Emerson Theological Institute. She is also a Hay House accredited Heal Your Life © Licensed Workshop Facilitator, Certified Life Coach, and Spiritual Leader with Unity Worldwide Ministries. Greta shares with listeners a holistic approach to building a loving relationship with the most important person you will ever meet...YOU. You will gain an understanding that The Mirror Work technique is a wonderful power tool that you can use to change how you see yourself and create a more loving relationship with yourself and others. Mirror Work lifts the veils of illusion about your unworthiness, feelings of insecurity, inferiority, and inadequacy. It diminishes the imposter syndrome and reveals the love already within you.

oin Constance and her special guest Greta Counts who is a newly published author of Mirror Work Works, 21-Day Self-Love Experience (www.MirrorWorkWorks.com). Greta is the CEO and founder of the Center for Self-Awareness and a Licensed Practitioner in Metaphysics with the Centers for Spiritual Living ™ and Emerson Theological Institute. She is also a Hay House accredited Heal Your Life © Licensed Workshop Facilitator, Certified Life Coach, and Spiritual Leader with Unity Worldwide Ministries. Greta shares with listeners a holistic approach to building a loving relationship with the most important person you will ever meet...YOU. You will gain an understanding that The Mirror Work technique is a wonderful power tool that you can use to change how you see yourself and create a more loving relationship with yourself and others. Mirror Work lifts the veils of illusion about your unworthiness, feelings of insecurity, inferiority, and inadequacy. It diminishes the imposter syndrome and reveals the love already within you.

This week on the podcast, Ryan talks with Rev. Dr. Jane Simmons, author of the book "You Can't Sleep Through Your Awakening"  about the importance of self-compassion in our growth journeys.  There is evidence in the world today of a collective shadow that can only be healed by the practice of radical self-compassion.  We unconsciously project our own beliefs about being flawed, wrong, or not good enough in some way onto others when we don't first resolve it within ourselves.  Healing past trauma does not mean we condone or completely forget about what happened in the past, it means that we allow ourselves to soften and open with practicing compassion to find freedom.  The more we love ourselves, the more beautiful we become. Instead of projecting our negative beliefs onto the world, we can project love onto the world.  The more lovable we are to ourselves, the more loveable we are to others. It starts inside each one of us.  Ryan shares how his childhood belief of being "stupid" had limited him in so many ways throughout his life until he found self-compassion through shadow work.  So much of the messaging we get is to grind, push harder, and overcome but if we don't find a way to truly love and accept ourselves our shadow beliefs will continue to show up in undesirable ways.  Self-compassion is the nurturing, safe, healing energy and environment that provides fertile ground for growth.  About Jane: Rev. Dr. Jane Simmons holds a doctoral degree in Theology from Holos University Graduate Seminary and is an ordained Unity minister. Since her ordination in 1999, Jane has ministered in four Unity churches in Canada and the United States as well as serving as the Teen Ministry Coordinator for Unity Worldwide Ministries. She is the 2020 recipient of Unity's Light of God Expressing Award. She has served as an associate professor at Holos University and is currently a member of adjunct faculty for Unity Worldwide Spiritual Institute, teaching credit classes in a virtual online format. Jane is the author of the book, You Can't Sleep Through Your Awakening – a combination of personal memoir, shared stories, psychological study, scientific learning and spiritual discourse. You Can't Sleep Through Your Awakening is an exploration into what it actually means to wake up and includes tools that contribute to the awakening process. Jane is also the co-author of the beautiful, best-selling book and card decks, Who Have You Come Here to Be, 101 Possibilities for Contemplation. Jane is a powerful speaker, writer, workshop facilitator, trainer, and educator with a focus on virtual online learning. With a passion for heart-centered transformation, Jane is committed to helping bring forth a kinder, more compassionate world. As a facilitator for the Alternatives to Violence Project, Jane has worked in communities, schools, and prisons, assisting others in developing skills to manage conflict in order to help bring about a world that works for all. Connect with Jane:  www.theartofquantumliving.com https://www.facebook.com/jane.simmons.52831 Connect with Ryan: Join our FREE Community Website: www.ihpcoaching.com Instagram: @integrated.human.performance or @coachryansawyer Grab Ryan's book Choice Point

In this episode, Ryan talks with Gary Simmons, TH.D. a renowned peacemaker and spiritual leader. We discuss:  Gary speaks candidly about his personal quest to create a more connected sense of his own well-being and worthiness for himself in his life.  The work is to recognize that whenever we are unhappy with how things are looking around us, it's a reflection that we are actually disconnected from our own authentic self and in turn our sense of well-being.  Reconciliation Consciousness: The desire to take back what got created (in any past moment) from our own sense of disconnect or not enough and want to revisit that moment from a sense of wholeness and oneness- something shifts and our intention mirror itself back to us.  Taking action that is opposite to our unconscious practices is to begin to wake up and recondition the body to a new mind.  Ryan shares about the transformation, realizations, and awakenings he had by doing the Quantum Living Process with Gary after an all-time low point in his own life.  We create our own personal reality by our own meaning-making and way of receiving our life. "How are you having your life right now?"  We can choose to have our life as if it is FOR US, rather than against us by recognizing our survival strategies have unintended consequences that are not actually beneficial.  Through the power of knowing our own worth- everything I have in life can always be my abundance.  "The antidote to not enough is not getting more, it's BEing more." About Dr. Gary Simmons: Dr. Simmons' teachings and ground-breaking Integral Ministry program is transforming church organizations and helping church leaders energize their spiritual communities and expand their capacity to carry out their mission with greater integrity and congruence. Dr. Simmons is an ordained Unity minister having served the Unity movement for over 42 years; pioneering 3 Unity churches, serving on the Board of Trustees of the Association of Unity Churches International, and as a VP at the Unity Worldwide Ministries home office and an adjunct faculty member of Unity Worldwide Spiritual Institute. He is the author of The I of the Storm: Embracing Conflict, Creating Peace, a Unity bestseller, now in its thirteenth printing, The Soul's Conspiracy and is published in the Journal of Integral Theory and Practice. Gary's work in applying integral principles to evolving church organizations is also cited in Wilber's book, The Four Turnings. Simmons is co-founder of The Art of Quantum Living and co-creator of the Quantum Living Process, a shadow work system that focuses on healing and integration. He has served as co-minister with his wife, Rev. Dr. Jane Simmons, at Unity Spiritual Center in Spokane Washington for nearly six years, where they have been intentionally moving from minister to mission-centric ministry. Dr. Gary holds a 4th-degree black belt in taekwondo. Gary and Jane are retired from pulpit ministry and now live in Kettle Falls WA in their tiny house, just 30 miles south of the Canadian border. Dr. Gary is an adjunct faculty member of Unity Worldwide Spiritual Institute and is the creator of the Integral Ministry Practice Certificate Program. Connect with Gary:  www.theartofquantumliving.com Connect with Ryan: Join our FREE Community Website: www.ihpcoaching.com Instagram: @integrated.human.performance or @coachryansawyer Grab Ryan's book Choice Point

Rev. James Trapp (JamesTrapp.com) is currently the senior minister of the Spiritual Life Center (www.slcworld.org) in Sacramento, CA.  An advisor on the topic of enlightened leadership, Rev. James sees that oftentimes the ones who have the best perspective are the not the people at the top, but people who are actually on the front lines in an organization. Enlightened leadership is the idea that the answer to any challenge or difficulty or problem that an organization is going through is already in the room. Giving a voice to those who are inherently involved in the organization and recognizing that those are the people that probably have the best solutions to the challenges that you're facing is key.  If you listen and allow people to share, even if you can't resolve everything they bring up, they walk away feeling better about their experience.   The founders of Spiritual Life Center ("SLC") had an emphasis on interfaith ministries in the greater Sacramento area. SLC increases a sense of understanding, cooperation, and harmony. Rev. James believes in first going in with a beginner's mind, and then you could move to some common ground for greater benefits for everybody.   As the President of Star Human Capital, James runs a consulting firm. He applies spiritual principles to what appears to be a non-spiritual environment. James came up with a way to incorporate some of the principles, like integrated decision making and the ideals of enlightened leadership in business settings to create more effective teams. If people can integrate their energies, they are far more powerful. Calling in folks that were hardcore business people, he put spiritual principle in a way that they would understand.Because of his success at Unity in the Bay in Miami with diversity and young people, Rev. James was invited to be the CEO and President of Unity Worldwide Ministries.  He served in that role for seven years before returning to the field and going to Sacramento.He was inducted into the Morehouse Hall of Preachers in the early 2000's, and he is one of the keynote speakers at "Celebrating Our Soul". He wants to share lessons from Dr. King about our interconnectedness because we are all part of one human family.He had a modicum of success in life, going to Princeton, going to law school, practicing law.  But he was in a state of dissatisfaction because he was trying to fill a void within based on a belief that he was abandoned by his mother when he was very young. He sought to do well in the external world seeking to make himself feel better. He ended up doing drugs and alcohol and his life collapsed. He went to a rehab center to get his life together. He engaged in a lot of self forgiveness for things he thought he had done to mess up his life. He did quite a bit of self transformation. He had two mystical moments. The first one was, after going through a process of self forgiveness, he woke up one day and all that guilt disappearred. That was a miracle. Subsequently, he was heading back to his apartment and everything around him collapsed into a sea of oneness. There was no separation between him and other people, him and the trees. He was able to see the vibration coming down from the trees, and was able to see Reality for the first time. He began to see that there was only one energy, One Reality.This informs his spiritual message. That is part of every message that he has in some way. He began to see less of the "us and them". He realizes when he's engaging in an illusion. His book is entitled "Take Back Your Future." See him August 11th at "Celebrating Our Soul": A New Thought Conference by People of African Descent (www.padntg.org). Listen to Rev. Celeste's poem, "Enlightened Leadership".Support the show (http://paypal.me/rev107)

Rev. Shad Groverland, a vegan, heads Unity Worldwide Ministries, the contemporary legacy of the spiritual tradition founded in the 1880s by ethical vegetarians and which is part of the network that presents this program.

Heidi interviews Rev. Dr. Jane Simmons, the author of the book, You Can't Sleep Through Your Awakening: a combination of personal memoir, shared stories, psychological study, scientific learning, and spiritual discourse. Rev. Dr. Jane Simmons holds a doctoral degree in Theology from Holos University Graduate Seminary and is an ordained Unity minister. Since her ordination in 1999, Jane has ministered in four Unity churches in Canada and the United States as well as serving as the Teen Ministry Coordinator for Unity Worldwide Ministries. She is the 2020 recipient of Unity's Light of God Expressing Award. She has served as an associate professor at Holos University and is currently a member of adjunct faculty for Unity Worldwide Spiritual Institute, teaching credit classes in a virtual online format.   Jane is a co-founder of The Art of Quantum Living, with its transformational 21-day practice called The Quantum Living Process: which weaves together the latest research emerging from neurobiology, developmental psychology, and quantum science with the wisdom of the world's mystical traditions to offer a powerful path to personal evolution. She is also a powerful speaker, writer, workshop facilitator, trainer, and educator with a focus on virtual online learning. With a passion for heart-centered transformation, Jane is committed to helping bring forth a kinder, more compassionate world. As a facilitator for the Alternatives to Violence Project, Jane has worked in communities, schools, and prisons, assisting others in developing skills to manage conflict in order to help bring about a world that works for all. In this episode, we discuss: How polarized "us and them" thinking as a culture is also something that can also take place internally within each of us.  Learning to trust yourself through the power of loving-kindness and self-compassion opens the door to greater connection and healing for generations to come.  Mining the wisdom of the body- Our bodies hold wisdom and have a memory that can provide us clues about what may be going on for us emotionally.  How anxiety can show up as a vibration in the body and understanding how anxiety happens within the body and nervous system specifically. How we can come together to do the greater work of healing the world through our own individual awakening. So we can begin to hospice old outdated aspects of our present culture while midwifing a new kinder more compassionate world starting with ourselves.  Connect with Jane:  www.theartofquantumliving.com www.drjanesimmons.com Connect with Heidi:  IG: @heidisawyercoaching www.heidisawyercoaching.com

“It’s time. It’s time to let it go,” said Rev. Paulette Pipe on trusting your deepest intuitions. And Paulette does just that. Her life embodies trust and faith, as well as surrender to the deeper forces around and within us.  A minister who served formerly as Spiritual Director of the UK Unity headquarters, and then manager of the Retreats department at Unity Village, Rev. Paulette left her full-time job, with benefits, to follow her inner voice and work for free – “doing the thing I loved most…hosting my podcast.”  She leads Touching the Stillness Ministries, a vibrant organization she created to make meditation and mindfulness both practical and accessible for daily application. She is a meditation teacher with the goal of increasing a sense of well-being in anyone who feels lost, confused, or like their Inner Stillness is getting a bit too rowdy to handle.  Paulette’s Touching the Stillness Ministries provides tools and resources for meditation and mindfulness that emphasize finding and sustaining a sense of inner stillness. She acknowledges the challenges that come with learning to meditate when one is desperately striving for inner peace, but also notes how beneficial it has been for her to engage with it. In fact, she writes that “Meditation...is the spiritual gift that gets me out of bed.” Inspired by three stones on her vision board, Paulette hopes to assist people in finding “Stillness, Love, and Peace” through the experience she has cultivated as “Touching the Stillness.”  Paulette takes a compassionate approach to beginning meditators – she lists out guidelines for them that include pointers such as the fact that meditation can happen at any moment, and preparing beforehand is important. Her guided meditations are available on platforms like Youtube, Unity Online Radio, Itunes, Spotify, SoundCloud, and more.  Paulette’s innovative meditation techniques, which include practices such as Affirmative Prayers and a Dance Your Own Dance Meditation, aim to make meditation an accessible asset daily. She draws on multiple forms of expression – she dances, journals, drums, sings and travels.  With her mesmerizing voice, and distinctive gift of affirmative healing prayers and meditations that stir the soul, she masterfully creates rich, sacred experiences from a range of traditional and unexpected mindful and meditation practices. Currently residing in Lee’s Summit, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City, Paulette is British-born and hails from London, England. She has a BA in Ministerial Studies. Her career, before answering the call to ministry, was as a professional fund-raising manager (development officer) for a number of medium-sized national UK charities, including Motability (a charity for disabled drivers), the Down’s Syndrome Association, and the Women’s Institute, where she was also merchandising manager of its trading arm, WI Enterprises.  Prior to that, she was a qualified business and trade magazine journalist, “who once got nominated for a prestigious industry award, the name of which eludes me now!” Rev. Paulette holds the role of Keeper of the Flame on Unity Worldwide Ministries’ Board of Trustees, where she maintains a sacred prayer space—generally doing so in silence—during the board’s deliberations and decision-making process at all of its board meetings; and is the liturgist for the assembly during the organization’s Annual General Meeting. She is a member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, a project of the Source of Synergy Foundation, where she also serves as its Keeper of the Flame during online meetings and events. She also led and created the Opening Ceremony at the Institute of Noetic Sciences Competition, as well as co-emceeing and presenting a breakout group.  Paulette provides a “spiritual oasis” for those who are either religious, spiritual, none, or both. Reverend Unity Bass, a Unity Minister, once remarked that being with Paulette felt like “[touching] the Stillness through her...She is so connected to the Source that it radiates right into my own soul.”  Please join us in conversation with Paulette, an inspiring, creative meditation leader who has committed herself to democratizing meditation for those of us who crave it!

Rev. Jacquie is joined by her 17-year-old daughter, Josie; Rev. Diane Venzera, Youth and Family Ministry Coordinator for Unity Worldwide Ministries; and mental health consultant Brijin Gardner, LCSW. They will discuss how teens are experiencing the pandemic, what resources are available for those working with teens, and how we can support our youth.

Cindy: (00:00) This is episode 2 with Lawyer, Reiki Master and Life Coach, Julia Baginski. Cindy: (00:07) Welcome to Exploring the Seasons of Life, a podcast for everyday women who are trying to be everything to everyone and forgetting themselves in the process. Each week join Cindy MacMillan as she interviews coaches, spiritual explorers and celebrants from all walks of life about beginnings, endings and the messy-bits in between. Self-love, well-being, and mindset are at the heart of our conversations because once you change the inside, the outside will begin to change as well. Cindy: (00:38) One of my favorite quotes is: "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others." ~ Mahatma Gandhi Cindy: (00:45) Hello friend and welcome back to Exploring the Seasons of Life podcast. I am thrilled to share my conversation with Julia Baginski with you. Julia is an Ordained member of the International Metaphysical Ministry, a Level Three Reiki Master, Certified Oracle Card Reader, and Life Coach. She is currently in seminary and on the path to ordination through Unity Worldwide Ministries, her home church in which she grew up. Julia, welcome to Exploring the Seasons of Life podcast. Thank you so much for being here today. Julia: (01:20) Thanks, Cindy. I'm really excited. I think this is going to be a great talk. Cindy: (01:24) Oh, absolutely. Well, I want to start all the conversations with this question. What does Exploring the Seasons of Life mean to you? Julia: (01:38) I think for me it has a lot of personal meaning. So in my life, Exploring the Seasons of Life is just always being open and being receptive because my husband told me this funny little saying the other day, it was just a couple of days ago, he said sometimes when you focus on the hole you miss the doughnut. I thought it was great. So it just goes to show that being open and being receptive you actually see opportunities, you get to see where you can be in service. You get to be called, you get to make a difference I think, and not really being attached to you know exactly whatever the thing in front of you is. Cindy: (02:27) Thank you so much. And what season of life are you in right now? Are you in a beginning, in an ending or messy bit right now? Julia: (02:34) Well, I think I've never said that I was in the beginning or ending. I'm always in a messy-bit. Things are always changing and always in transitions. I like to be in that state. I've grown to be comfortable with change. I'm in the midst of my second marriage, been married for two years. I'm in the midst of motherhood. I have a seven-year-old daughter and two grown stepchildren. So there's always changes going on around me. Cindy: (03:10) I like that, what you're saying about change because sometimes change is so scary for most people. Julia: (03:21) Yeah, it is. I can relate to that. Just to dive into something really deep and personal right off the bat. I think for me the biggest change that I went through was when my mom transitioned. So she died 10 years ago. We just had that 10th anniversary and that was so huge for me. And it really showed me how much of my identity I had built up around my relationship with her and being her daughter. And I think when that was, you know, it's not a chosen change, so it's like something happens in your life and you're forced to just have to deal with it and go through this change in this process. And that's grief too, but I mean, this happens on smaller levels too, right? But I think the more that we cannot have our identity based on outward things, so I'm not even talking about you know, I have to have a certain car, that’s given some people identify with their literal things, you know, people identify with their career. Julia: (04:35) I always said even when I was really practicing law and in the thick of it...I've, said, yeah, I'm a lawyer, but you know, just in the same way that a plumber is a plumber, I never kind of took that on as my identity. Right. So it was just something that I did. It was where I was in service and you know, even into roles, wife, mother, we have roles, but I think that change becomes easier when we don't put our whole identity in those roles. When our identity is inward-focused into who we are and we don't lose ourselves, then we can go through change gracefully because we really know who we are and our identity is just coming from within, from our true being. Cindy: (05:21) That is absolutely true about how our identities become so tied up in our titles sometimes. And when that change, whether it's a layoff or whatever it may be, that can make a huge impact on that person's life. And I actually am talking about myself when I say that. So yes. Thank you for saying that about change. Julia: (05:47) Oh yeah. I've had a huge struggle with that. I mean, when I was called to ministry I was, like in the thick of my law career, I've been practicing for 15 years. So it was like, Oh my gosh, there's that part of me that's like, what, you're so invested in this, you know, you invested time, you went to law school, it's a financial investment, it's an emotional investment. It's all this time. It's building the practice and all of that. You know, this was however that opportunity for change comes, whether it's a calling that you want to go after or whether it is a layoff, right. I mean it's, you're still kind of faced in that same crossroads. You're in that same flux in how to handle it. For me, I was definitely pursuing a calling that I wanted to do and I felt very called to do. Um, and kind of like disengaging my identity with, you know, Oh wow. You know, like I, I felt weird. We're saying I'm semiretired from practicing law, getting more and more retired from it. It's just been kind of a process of letting that go. Cindy: (07:07) I know that you're also enrolled in, seminary. Was there something that led you to that? I mean, was it one defining moment or was it just like a alot of small moments across time. Julia: (07:24) So, you know, hindsight is 20, 20, I can look back and see how there were like soft whispers, let's say throughout my life and I can look back and say, wow, everything that's happened in my life, exactly the way that it has, has put me in the position that I am now. And it's not anything that I didn't have full control over. I feel like I purposely designed my life to be this way. I just didn't see that this was the reason it was going this way, but it ended up being that way. So I was called to ministry previously. I mean I felt called for more years than I actually, you know, went through the program and I got ordained with International Metaphysical Ministry (IMM), I've always had a very open and perceptive and intuitive sense. So for me, ministry is, it's just kind of like a combination of the way I've, I've been up to now I know if that makes sense. Cindy: (08:30) Yeah, absolutely. So now, you're going to Unity Worldwide Ministries and how much longer do you have in that before you have your own church? Julia: (08:43) So Unity Worldwide Ministries is really interesting how it works. I'm in my second year of seminary and it is, it's such a process of faith that even the way that seminary is because you know, first, even to apply to seminary, you have to take certain classes. So there's like 18 courses that you need, in addition to a bachelor's degree to apply for school. It's like a graduate-level school. So I did all the prerequisites and once you have them, it's like there's no guarantee you're actually going to be enrolled in seminary after that, right. You go through the process and it's a real commitment and it's a commitment on faith cause it's, you know, it's 18 classes, it's a lot. Um, so I did, I did that. I was accepted. Now I'm enrolled as a second year. Julia: (09:41) Those 18 classes count as your first year. I'm halfway through the second year and it's a four year program. Yeah. So I'll be finished. Uh, I'll be finished with that in 2020 and then you know, Unity is a worldwide movement. So there are opportunities for service all over the place but I will be applying to a church. So we'll see what's open when, when I graduate. Cindy: (10:14) All right, well you'll have to keep us up to date with that. I know you also do Reiki and energy work. How can we shift our energy and bring in more self-love and self-care? Julia: Oh totally. There are so many practices. I think finding what's comfortable for you is the best thing. I mean, I'll just say like when I got to the point where I was ready to release my career and be full time in seminary and really pursue this, I just got to the point and this, I, and I had been practicing Reiki. Julia: (10:52) I mean, I had really been embracing Reiki energy into my life. I've been in my meditation practice for a long time. So it was really clear and the clarity that I received through these practices showed me that the more specialized you get in life, right, the harder, the more rigid it is and the less flexible and less open you are to other possibilities. So when I felt called to ministry, my clarity came as like, okay, so why aren't you doing it? And it's like, and if you're not doing it, then what are you doing? Are you just going to continue doing something that you're no longer called to do, that you feel complete in or are you just waiting to die at this point and maybe you'll get to do what you really need to do in the next lifetime.   Julia: (11:41) And is there a guarantee that you're going to get to do that? You don't need to start a new incarnation to have a new life if you want to see it that way. But I do really credit some of my spiritual practices for getting that clarity. And it's a lot about shifting your perspective and things like that. So I love Reiki because it’s universal life force energy that can be directed. So as far as Reiki I love to practice Reiki. I do Reiki for others. You know Unity. We have our Reiki circles. My minister at Unity is a Reiki master and she's actually who trained me in Reiki. I went to my classes with her and she's also a mentor.   Julia: (12:39) So I have a community around me that's really very high energy too. So that's really helpful. Cindy: (12:49) I was gonna say, I think having that community of people who have those, I'm going to say high vibes around you, keeps you positive and moving forward and taking care of yourself, I'm assuming. Julia:  Oh yeah. I think it does cause you look at yourself in a different way. I mean, you have kind of your mirrors around you. These people are mirrors for what's going on in your life. Reiki is so cool. You can shift so much with Reiki. Reiki can work on your belief systems. I mean, it's amazing. I even do Reiki for weight loss - I've had a couple clients work on that.   Julia: (13:36) It's been amazing. I see people and I noticed their relationships with food. Right? There are people who believe that if they look at a piece of chocolate cake, they'll gain weight, right? And they will because they believe it. And you know, and I know people who are like, food is my friend and you know, they eat anything and it just nourishes them. Their bodies are healthy and it doesn't matter what they eat, so I, I do, you know, for me it's just, I see that a lot of people's belief systems and attitudes towards things like that definitely manifest. So, just a little example, when we're doing a weight loss program with Reiki we'll set intentions with everything. Like we'll bless that water, you know, and we'll infuse Reiki energy into the water to  when we drink it; it's bringing us into our highest vibration and bringing harmony into our body, into full health.   Julia: (14:44) So it's that Reiki energy that we use to bless. It makes a huge difference in it also makes you very mindful of everything. If you're really in this practice, it's almost like a meditation with everything. You're having an experience with the water you drink, the food you eat, you know how it's connecting to your body. It's a different awareness. Cindy: I did read your article on your website about Reiki and weight loss. And I found that interesting because what you're just saying makes perfect sense to me about the things that you say to yourself about food and being mindful. Julia: Have you ever seen that water experiment with Masaru Emoto and ice crystals? They would get a cup of water and label it love. They would have one that was the war.   Julia: (15:39) Then they'd freeze it and they'd look at the crystals and the ones that had like the beautiful peaceful words were like beautiful crystals. They look to like the words that was written on them. And then the ones that were like war hate were just a mess. They were asymmetrical. I mean, it was really, really interesting. So, it just shows and human beings are, you know, we're made of at least 60% water. So it's true, you know, when you talk to yourself, you know, bless yourself. Cindy: (16:00) Thank you for talking about that because that just kind of really landed with me. The words that we say to ourselves. Going back to Reiki energy; are there three practical tips or actionable tips that we can give people that they could start practicing? Julia: (16:34) Well, I think that the first thing you would learn if I was to teach you Reiki or anybody else is there's a strong component of being centered, being in a meditative state almost. So I think establishing a meditation practice if you don't already have one, is important. And being in the silence and really asking yourself when you go into the silence or when you start your meditation to allow chi, the life force energy to be available to you. You know, cause it, it is, you just have to kind of uncover it. You have to let it out. I don't think, you know, even when I'm doing Reiki on somebody, I don't think that I'm giving anything to them. I just feel energy coming through. So it's not, it's never like somebody is healing somebody else. Julia: (17:31) We're allowing the healing energy that exists within all things, you know? Cindy: (17:39) Out of curiosity, what kind of women do you look up to as mentors? Who do you turn to when you're looking for just a little bit of guidance in your life? Julia: Yeah, sure. Well, I always have my mom, you know, and I still, even though she's transitioned 10 years ago, I still think of my mom's here right now. And I give her so much credit for being such a great parent. Like I really, I try to be like her with my daughter. So I mean, I must've had a really great childhood experience, but my mom was a Unity person and you know, I don't know that I, that I even like got it until I got it. Probably sometime in high school, but I grew up around Unity and I am really grateful to her for that. Julia: (18:32) I look up to my minister, to my mentor, I see aspects in all women that I can draw on to, you know, that's where I'm at right now is really seeing the light and seeing gifts in everybody in every interaction and every conversation. So yeah, I'm in that place right now. Cindy: (19:00) You're in the place of light and love. Is there anything I should have asked you but I didn't know to ask you? Julia: I feel like we could talk about so many things. We're on the same wavelength. I get asked to do workshops and readings and things like that. I do angel card workshops, and I'm doing one the end of next month. Julia: (19:36) Sunday, February 23, from 11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m. I'm at Unity of Fort Pierce. We're doing an intuition workshop. I'm asking everyone to bring their own angel card deck. So I like to use Messages From Your Angels card deck or I mean it could be anything. Even at our Unity Bookstore, we have angel cards that you can buy and use for the session. And I love doing these because I feel like it's a little bit more empowering to learn how to read for yourself than just like going for reading. So I want everyone to have a deck and we'll start by clearing the deck and we say a prayer we invoke the presence of archangel angels. It's a really fun experience and I think people are surprised that when they start playing with the cards, the things that jump out at them. Julia: (20:30) It's really neat to start seeing people connect with their intuition like that. And because things mean different things to different people. So it's just really cool. I think we're going to have a lot of fun with that. As far as like group things and workshops, I love working with denials and affirmations. My favorite workshop that I've done; I created a really neat process for creating your own denials and affirmations that you can work with. So I'll tell you this, cause if anyone wants to do this, this is like something you can really dig deep. And I love Louise Hay and you get this affirmation decks or whatever, but sometimes I feel like, okay, that's nice, but maybe that's not, you know, it's not exactly resonating with where I'm at or what I want to be doing right now. Julia: (21:36) So there's this really neat process that I put together to really draw out your own affirmations. And we start with a denial too. So we can write them out on cards and it would be, you know, you'd have a denial on one side and then put your affirmation on the other. Cindy: So what does the denial look like? I mean, how would a denial read? Julia:  Okay. So I'll just start with what I would ask the person to do in the workshop. So we'll sit down and you would think first about a goal that you have or what you want your life to look like in a certain area. So it could be around finance, career, it could be a relationship, family, any area and in less than a paragraph, write out what you wish your life was like right now. Julia: (22:27) What you want it to be a year from now? Just what's your ideal situation in that area and be big about it, you know. Cindy: Okay. So with denials, it's not, I don't want anything you'd actually talking about what you do or this is how we figure out your denials. Julia: Cause you always start with what is my ideal situation? I chose something about travel. You know, I would love to have seen Italy, France and Spain just for example. And, you know, be well-traveled. The next step is, so maybe if you're listening to this, you want to pause it and do it, like actually write down, go ahead and write your paragraph. You know, what is your ideal situation in this area of your life? You know, think big, but you know, don't overthink it. Julia: (23:20) When you come back we are going to write down maybe the top three reasons why our life isn't reflecting this right now. So for me, that might be, I haven't had enough time, you know, or I don't have the money. Um, you know, whatever comes to mind, like your, maybe your top three. Once you have that list of your reasons why your life doesn't look like that right now, those are kind of like your blocks. Those should be your denials because if you don't have time, you don't have money, then you're probably looking at a prosperity abundance issue. Which time is heavily related to abundance and prosperity. So those really do go hand in hand. And before I would start an affirmation, I really would suggest doing the denial first because you want to clear that and then create a space for the affirmation to come in and take over. Julia: (24:26) So then you could write on your card, you know, if your reason was I don't have enough time, then you can say and these are the words I like to use. I give no power to the erroneous belief that there is not enough time or I give no power to the erroneous belief that I don't have enough time. Right. And because it's just a belief, it's not true. I give no power. Cindy:  It's kind of like taking that charge away. Julia: Yeah. And it's bringing it internally. So like really, you know, there's no money time thing out there that has any power over you. Believe me. It's all within, it's all your own belief systems and this is a practice of shifting your beliefs. So shifting from lack to abundance, that's how I would phrase it. And it could be, you know, I give no power to the erroneous belief that there is not enough money. Julia: (25:28) I give no power to the erroneous belief that I don't have enough funds. And then on the flip side of those, you know, you would affirm every affirmative statement should be an I am statement. So I am, or I have, so I am abundant, I have enough time, I have more than enough time. You know, I am abundant, I have enough money, more than enough money. So those would be your affirmations that kind of are like the flip side of the denials. Cindy: Thank you so much for going through that. That is a fantastic practice around self-love and self-care. Julia: Yeah, that's a really good one. I do a whole workshop around that, but if you're committed enough to do that yourself and to dig deep, it’s effective. And then the denials and affirmations keep those cards with you. Julia: (26:20) Do it in the morning when you first wake up, do it once during the day some time and then keep them by the bed, do it before you go to sleep. Eventually, you won't have to do the denials anymore. You can just do the affirmations. If you, you know, you'll feel it. So if you feel like you're good with the denials, then you don't need them just, but just keep practicing the affirmation. Cindy: So thank you. Thank you so much for sharing that. So I want to finish off with, if you could turn back time and talk to your 18-year-old self, what would you tell her about the season of life you are in now? Julia: I would tell her to stop and notice and enjoy more often. And I would tell her that everything is going to work out perfectly. You know, you have this amazing set of experiences you get to have in front of you and no worries. Cindy: (27:23) I love it. Love it. So how can people follow you on your journey and how can they support you? Do you have a website? Julia: (27:30) Yes. I have a website called RevJayaDevi.net. This was a white stone name that came up to me a couple of years ago. So, for those who don't know, Unity does a white stone ceremony at the beginning of every year. And it's based on the Bible verse where Saul becomes Paul; in his enlightenment a new name was written on the white stone for him. Right? So in Unity we have this very metaphysical experience where we have a meditation and we allow a name to come up that we write on our own white stone for the year. This was my name a couple of years ago; Jaya Devi and it means a victorious goddess. Julia: (28:23) And I was like, I like that. I like that white stone. That's the story behind Jaya Devi. Cindy: Are your workshops and events on that website? Julia: Yes, they will be there. The best thing to do is once you're on the website just follow me on Facebook. If you scroll down, Heart Mind Connection is my Facebook page and that's where I'll post events and things like that. And if you do want to find out information for a reading or get some coaching or help to develop a spiritual practice, you can connect with me on Facebook probably more easily. Cindy: Thank you so much and I truly appreciate from the bottom of my heart, you being a guest on Exploring the Seasons of Life podcast. Thank you. Julia: It was fun. Thank you. Cindy: (29:12) Thank you for listening to this week's episode of Exploring the Seasons of Life. I enjoyed my conversation with Julia about her journey from Lawyer to Seminary. I especially liked it when she said, "It goes to show - being open and being receptive you actually see opportunities and you see where you can be of service." Are you open to receiving opportunities and being of service? Make sure to visit our website, CynthiaMacmillan.com while you're at it, if you found value in this show, we'd appreciate you simply telling a friend that will help us out. Until next time. Live inspired.

Rev. Jacquie invites media team cohorts Andy Waggoner and Hillary Larson to the show today. Together they have served both Unity Worldwide Ministries and now Unity World Headquarters to produce video resources to share the message of Unity with the world in a relevant and accessible way. They will discuss their favorite projects, behind the scenes experiences, and what inspires them to push the creative edge of spiritual film production.

Living in the Kansas City area with her patient and adoring husband, Rev Carrie Kenyon currently coordinates all aspects of the employment process for ministers, spiritual leaders, and ministries at Unity Worldwide Ministries, as well as providing support on questions regarding compensation, church governance and operations. She also provides assistance to those who are interested in starting a new church or alternative ministry. As a Certified Unity Worldwide Consultant, Carrie also works with ministries during times of transition. Prior to ministry, Carrie, with degrees in psychology and education, spent 18 years working in early childhood education where her own inner child came out to play. She founded Willow Center, a non-profit organization for grieving children and youth. Carrie is currently a Connection Practice Coach and minister of Unity Barefoot Travels. Carrie wants to live in a world filled with open hearts, deep connections, and people really listening as they discover the divine in themselves and in each other. A little dark chocolate with almonds just takes it to the next level. To learn more please visit http://unitycr.org/

Rev. Victoria Etchemendy, the chair of the Global Initiative Interfaith and Multicultural Team at Unity Worldwide Ministries, shares her passion.

STAND UP FOR HUMANITY is a visionary event taking place at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on Friday, November 3rd at 6:30pm. The architect of this project is Rev. Sylvia Sumter, Senior Minister of Unity of Washington, DC. and member of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, which also includes series hosts, Ben Bowler and Dr. Kurt Johnson. In this episode, Deborah Moldow, Co-Director of the Evolutionary Leaders Circle, interviews Rev. Sylvia Sumter about the inspiration behind STAND UP FOR HUMANITY and how everyone can take part. Additional guests – all of whom will be speaking live in Washington, DC – are Stephen Dinan, CEO of The Shift Network and author of “Sacred America, Sacred World”; Imam Talib Shareef, Imam of the Masjid Muhammad in Washington, DC; and Rev. Donna Johnson, CEO of Unity Worldwide Ministries. These brilliant guest speakers inspire us all to come together and STAND UP FOR HUMANITY to meet the challenges of our times.

Sue K. Riley is one of the founding members of emPower Music and Arts. She has served on the Music Team for Unity Worldwide Ministries, and as one of the powerhouse leaders of the Posi Music Festival. Sarah has a fantastic conversation with Sue under the palms of Unity Church in the Gardens in Jupiter, Florida. 

it is week 3 on Positively Entertaining with Beth Hilton and this week she is sharing a remarkable man. As a founder of emPower Music & Arts Richard Mekdeci is at the epi-center of the budding “Posi” (Positive) Music industry. Richard's experience as speaker, singer and award winning songwriter spans a wide range, from performing with the Florida Symphony Orchestra as a trumpet player, to over 20 years of writing, producing and performing in Nashville Tennessee with artists like Kathy Mattea, Susie Boggus, Patty Loveless, Dolly Parton, Bonnie Nelson, and others. He has produced or co-produced eighteen albums of Posi Music including six projects of his own. During his 10 years at Unity Worldwide Ministries as Sacred Music Resources Coordinator he produced songbooks, the Sound Connections music conference and newsletter and provided music resources to churches around the world. He currently serves as Music Director at Unity Renaissance Spiritual Community in Chesapeake, VA where his wife Paula is Senior Minister.See more at: https://www.empowerma.com/ Beth Hilton is the founder of The B Company and is sharing her mission to support transformational music and how to stay above the fray! Join us live on April 12th at 3pmPT/6pmET and anytime in archive on WoMRadio. You can be part of the conversation by calling us at 646 595 3163. Thanks to our show sponsors Breanetta Productions and Safety Bags, LLC. Meet them and all our sponsors on our website. 

In this episode of Fresh Tracks I speak with author and spiritual teacher Edwene Gaines about money and prosperity. Money plays such an important role in our ability to cut Fresh Tracks that it’s presence, or lack of presence, in our life is often the place we make decisions from. Lack of money is often the excuse we give for not stepping into our dreams, for creating those Fresh Tracks in life. Most of us are not aware that there is more to making money and creating a prosperous life than hard work. Edwene Gaines shares her wisdom and personal experience on how each of us can create prosperity in our lives. From living your divine purpose to understanding the powerful role discontent has in our lives, Edwene shares that trusting our own personal guidance system and understanding Universal Law is what it takes to live a prosperous life. Edwene’s charm and humor motivates and empowers all of us to be the master of money and enrich our lives. All you need to do is give yourself permission to do something different and you just might find a place where life becomes a lot of fun and you have joy and prosperity in your life. Show Notes:3:20 – Faith and its role in creating a prosperous life5:16 – The first step in creating prosperity8:22 – The important role discontent plays in your life11:50 – Creating your life consciously vs unconsciously15:00 – Can you live your divine purpose and a live a prosperous life?21:00 – You’ve got to have the gumption to grow your business and make money!25:00 – How lack of forgiveness is affecting your prosperity30:00 – What debt is REALLY about and how to get rid of it forever About Edwene GainesEdwene Gaines, author of the book The Four Spiritual Laws of Prosperity, A Simple Guide to Unlimited Abundance, is owner-director of the Rock Ridge Retreat Center in Valley Head, Alabama. She has made a 100% commitment to the transformation of the abundance consciousness of the world.   An ordained Unity minister since 1979, she is also president of The Masters' School. She has trained approximately 500 Master Prosperity Teachers. She travels about extensively presenting Prosperity Workshops. She has created and markets CD’s and affirmation cards through her company Prosperity Products. A Certified Fire Walking Instructor, she facilitates the fire walking Ceremony several times each year.   Edwene has served as a member of the International New Thought Alliance Executive Board.  In 2006 she was honored by the International New Thought Alliance with the Torchbearer for New Thought Award. That same year she was honored by Unity Worldwide Ministries with the Light of God Expressing Award at their annual conference. In 2014, she was honored by Emerson Theological Seminary with an honorary doctor of divinity degree. In 2016 Edwene was awarded an honorary doctorate in humane letters by the Centers for Spiritual Living Holmes Institute. She is committed to power, passion, prosperity, and performance. To learn more from Edwene Gaines visit www.prosperityproducts.com Visit www.FreshTrackswithKellyRobbins.com and download Our 3-Part Video Series Tracks to Cash and receive more information like this!

Rev. Cynthia Alice Anderson began her life of spiritual service in 1984 at the age of 15 when she began working part-time in her home church, Red Oak United Methodist Church in Red Oak, Georgia. Subsequently, Rev. Anderson served congregations in various church positions including choir director, band member, Sunday school teacher, youth minister, and contemporary worship leader. Rev. Anderson served as chair for the Prosperity Team for Unity Worldwide Ministries and has recently written a four-week prosperity book and series titled PRSPRTY 4U, currently being taught in Unity churches around North America.

Health care generates ongoing controversy in the United States, but what are the issues for biomedical ethics when insurance companies dictate what treatment may or may not be administered by withholding payment for necessary drugs, tests, or procedures? And where should our society spend its health care dollars—to sustain life at the ending stages or improve the whole quality of life by emphasis on wellness and disease prevention? What about allowing suffering patients with no hope of recovery the choice to end their lives painlessly?       Dr. Tom's special guests are two Unity Institute® and Seminary students who will graduate in 2016 and become Unity ministers, both lively speakers who are uniquely qualified to speak about medical practicality and economics issues. Keri King earned a bachelor's in nursing at Carroll College in Wisconsin. She worked as a clinical care/ICU nurse for more than 20 years and is still a practicing member of the nursing profession. She brings enormous practical knowledge to the discussion of patient care and medicine.       Richard Belous has a bachelor's from Columbia College and earned both a master's and Ph.D. from George Washington University. He went on to teach as adjunct faculty at GWU, a position he still holds. “Dr. Rick” was appointed chief economist for the United Way and serves as research advisor to Unity Worldwide Ministries.       Don't miss this one. You will hear amazing insights about the way money and medicine interplay, and learn what a person of faith can do to help those who feel lost in the whirlwind of health care today.

Rev. Joyce Fisher Pierce has been a New Thought Unity Truth Student for 35 years. Before moving to Richmond in 2000, she served as the part-time leader at Unity Center Las Cruces in New Mexico from 1995 to 1998 while working full-time as Public Relations and Financial Development and Education Director for the Humane Society in El Paso, Texas. Rev. Joyce is a graduate of Unity Institute® and Seminary, located at Unity Village, Missouri. She was ordained a Unity minister by Unity Worldwide Ministries. Prior to entering the ministry, she also was director of public relations and volunteer services for two major hospitals. Office phone: 804-320-5584; email: info@unitybonair.org; online: www.unitybonair.org

The subject is education for all ages. Dr. Tom's guests include Rev. Dr. Jane Simmons, author, teacher, and  Unity minister serving as International Teen Ministry Coordinator for Unity Worldwide Ministries; Rev. Kathryn Kellogg, UWM Children and Family Ministry  Coordinator; and Rev. Rachel Simpson, Let's Talk About It producer and interim Youth and Family Minister at Unity Village Chapel. Great show!

Newly appointed CFO and COO of Unity Worldwide Ministries, Rev. Bruce Verkruyse, shares his insights from his long and varied history of Unity.

Our Unity movement was based on healing. Today's talk is a transcript for a healing service on a Wednesday evening on August 6, 1924, where Charles Fillmore breaks from routine and gives an explanation of understanding the truth about healing. My special guest is Rev. Lynn O'Dell, Director of Credentialing at Unity Worldwide Ministries.

Rev. Janie L. Kelley was ordained in 2007 by the Association of Unity Churches International (now Unity Worldwide Ministries). She is currently serving in her fifth year as senior minister at Unity of San Angelo. She first began attending Unity services in the mid-eighties and later became very active in the Unity movement. She began taking Spiritual Education and Enrichment classes in the early nineties and in 1998 received "The Call" to become a Unity minister.

First of all ... Happy Valentine’s Day! ... A day when we think of, and express our love for,  the special ones in our lives. Sometimes we do this at other times of the year and sometimes subconsciously. I wonder what was going on in the mind of Charles Fillmore in September of 1933.  Perhaps it was “love” too. His first two talks in September of 1933 were about the theme of Love. Today I will be sharing his talk from Sunday, September 3, 1933, titled “Love Leads to Power.” It is interesting that Charles and Cora were married on December 31, 1933, just four months later. I wonder ...? My special guest and Valentine sweetheart is my wife, Rev. Margie Brach, director of credentialing at Unity Worldwide Ministries.  

What happens when there is apparent evil that crops up in our lives? Charles Fillmore believes we can bring good from evil and uses the example from the Book of Acts in the stoning of Stephen, when the apostle Paul stood by and watched the garments of those doing the stoning. My special guest is Bernadette Swanson, licensed Unity teacher and staff member of Unity Worldwide Ministries.

This week Rev. Dr. Thomas Shepherd's guests will be Rev. Manzel Berlin, United Methodist minister and adjunct faculty at Unity Institute and Seminary; Rev. Edith Washington, ordained Unity minister and certified practitioner in the Healing Art of Touch Therapy; and licensed Unity teacher Bernadette Swanson, education editor at Unity Worldwide Ministries. All of the above are currently at work on new writing projects, so not surprisingly, the topic will be their new books in the works. If you're an aspiring author—or if you just like good books—tune in to hear this distinguished panel of spiritual writers discuss how the creative process works for them.

What is the metaphysical connection between a general and a woman judge in Ancient Israel? Charles Fillmore tells us the interesting connection between Deborah and her general Barak along with the metaphysical meaning for us today. My special guest is Rev. Kristen Preud’homme from Unity Worldwide Ministries. 

Where is heaven? Charles Fillmore has some ideas on that in his talk “Heaven Is Within Man” from March 20, 1927. My special guest is Debbie Ball from Unity Worldwide Ministries.

Charles Fillmore’s talk, “The Saving Christ Consciousness,” from June 28, 1931, has some interesting ideas on viewing this concept. My special guest for this discussion is Rev. Deborah Frownfelter from Unity Worldwide Ministries.

Charles Fillmore gave some interesting Wednesday class lessons. This episode is one of those lessons from September 3, 1924, where Charles spoke about the teachings of Jesus. His talk was entitled "Awakening to the Truth as Taught by Jesus." My special guest for this episode is Rev. Jane Simmons from Unity Worldwide Ministries.

Ever notice how our eye seems to be attracted to certain items in store display windows? Well, marketing experts know something about the effect of color on the human psyche. Charles Fillmore speaks to the impact of color on our lives as a metaphysician in a lesson he gave to Unity Truth students on January 3, 1925. We’ll discuss this with special guest Rev. Robin Ferguson from Unity Worldwide Ministries (formerly the Association of Unity Churches International).

Conflict in the church? You bet … even way back in the first century CE. Charles Fillmore speaks to the method of addressing conflict in his talk “Essentials of Christian Faith” from November 5, 1933. Join me and special guest Debbie Allen, a licensed Unity teacher and Unity Worldwide Ministries employee.

Charles Fillmore offers a pleasant review of lessons on this subject in his talk “Review—The Way” from Sunday December 18, 1932. Join me and special guest Rev. James Trapp, president and CEO of Unity Worldwide Ministries (formerly the Association of Unity Churches International), for this interesting discussion.

Charles Fillmore does an excellent metaphysical interpretation of God as Spirit and our relationship to Spirit in his talk “A Loving, Providing Father” from January 6, 1929. We will discuss that talk today with special guest Rev. Kathy Kellogg, director of youth education at Unity Worldwide Ministries (formerly the Association of Unity Churches International).

Join in for today's discussion with guest Rev. David McArthur, chair of the board for Unity Worldwide Ministries (formerly the Association of Unity Churches International).

Ever wonder just what Jesus taught? Charles Fillmore’s talk from June 29, 1930, does a good job of summarizing the teachings in a talk entitled “Review of Jesus Christ Lessons.”  My special guest is Rev. Carl Osier, vice president of Ministries and Ministry Services at Unity Worldwide Ministries (formerly the Association of Unity Churches International). Rev. Carl was recently awarded the Charles Fillmore Award for his work in Unity.

What is the function of church? Charles Fillmore addresses the question in his pre-WOQ Radio talk given on Sunday, July 6, 1919, entitled "Spiritual Church." My special guest is Susan Beck, founder and president of Global Activation Unlimited, LLC. Susan was formerly the chief operating officer of the Association of Unity Churches International (now called Unity Worldwide Ministries).