Social Service
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Spirit World Messages, Cross Removals and Coronations: Balancing Messianic Necessity and Coalition-Building
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 17, 2016 – Pages 71-114 The Unification movement (UM) includes two main constituencies. Those who accept the teaching and authority of Rev. and Mrs. Moon comprise the movement’s core. They make up the membership of the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification of World Christianity (HSA-UWC) or Unification Church and…
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The ACLC Social Action Program: Social Action or Social Inertia?
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 8, 2007 – Pages 71-78 This position paper on the social action program of the American Clergy Leadership Conference (ACLC) has a threefold purpose. First, as a member of numerous clergy organizations I need to assure myself that the time that I devote the ACLC is, in fact, time well…
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Taking Religious Education Out of the Classroom: Service Learning as an Effective Contextual Pedagogy
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 6, 2004-2005 – Pages 125-142 As one who has been called to teach within our faith community, I have a critical concern to create the means whereby my students can begin to grapple with meaning and sacredness while, at the same time, feel interdependent and interconnected with others—both those who…