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The Unity School of Christianity was founded in Kansas City, Missouri, in 1889 by Charles Fillmore (1854–1948) and Myrtle Fillmore (1845–1931) after Mrs. Fillmore had been cured of her tuberculosis, she believed, by spiritual healing. To learn more about spiritual principles, the Fillmores studied the teachings of world religions and the ...
Fillmore's vegetarian restaurant Unity Inn, in 1924. In a pamphlet called "Answers to Your Questions About Unity", poet James Dillet Freeman says that Charles and Myrtle both had health problems and turned to some new ideas which they believed helped to improve these problems. Their beliefs are centered on two basic propositions: (1) God is good.
Myrtle was the seventh child (of eight) of an Ohio businessman-farmer. Her parents were strict Methodists, but Myrtle rejected their puritanical teachings.Most of her childhood and into adulthood, she experienced "all the ills of mind and body that I could bear.
Harriet Emilie Cady (July 12, 1848 – January 3, 1941) was an American homeopathic physician and author of New Thought spiritual writings. [1] Her 1896 book Lessons in Truth: A Course of Twelve Lessons in Practical Christianity is now considered one of the core texts on Unity Church teachings. [2]
Josephine Emma Curtis Hopkins (September 2, 1849 – April 8, 1925) was an American spiritual teacher and leader. She was involved in organizing the New Thought movement and was a theologian, teacher, writer, feminist, mystic, and healer; who taught and ordained hundreds of people, including notably many women.
She wrote articles for the monthly Unity magazine. She also held lectures, classes, and published courses. In 1919, she moved to Chicago to continue her work under the auspices of the First Unity School of Chicago. [3] Mingle later left the organization and founded her own school known as the School of Livable Christianity. [4]
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By the fall of 1989, he and a few buddies started piecing the organ back together enough that “the Lord’s plan” made itself clear. This hobby would become a life.