One of the favorite words in UC is "Restoration". According to the philosopy, God gave man certain things to do and laws to obey; and when he failed to do these things---trouble came in the form of evil, sin, and iniquity. The process of restoration, according to DP; is the process of "indemnity". The problem with all of this; is that when human beings are entrusted with the responsibility of judging good and evil---there can be mistakes----such as creating "blame", "guilt", which leads to…

Church leaders talk about doing it but; what does it mean to "lay the tribal Messiah foundation?"

Does it mean to go out and witness to X number of people; bring them to DP Workshop; so that they can become some level of UC member? Is it a numbers game; which will lead to a major upsurge in the movement?  In observing the movement now, compared to say---1974-----we would have to say that the members surge has passed. If all of the predictions about the salvation of the world had of…

In 1975, which was over 35 years ago; but only seems like yesterday----a group of "Missionaries in Training", gathered at Barrytown for 40 Day Training. Then, we got on airplanes and traveled out to the far corners of the globe to spread the message of The Divine Principle.

Now, after  all this time; probably most of those early UC pioneers must have left the church to live out their secular lives. At least; that is the only thing that I can think of; since there seems to be little…