By Claude A. Perrottet This recent article, “Why Does True Mother Call Herself the Only Begotten Daughter?” by Andrew Wilson suggests that True Mother has chosen to lower herself by taking on the title of Only Begotten Daughter in reaction to failure and opposition. While acknowledging the many insights of this factual article, I submit… Continue Reading →
Russia, Crimea, Ukraine and Beyond
Note: This article, originally published on April 14, 2014, is being re-posted on Applied Unificationism due to its relevance on the first anniversary of the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. by David Stewart In a sermon I gave in Kiev in late 1991, I warned that the Israelites, upon escaping slavery in Egypt, still had to… Continue Reading →
How to Meet My Ancestors: A Theory of Spirit
By David Burton For me one of the more fascinating requests Rev. Sun Myung Moon gave to us was his request to WRIST in 1984 to develop technology to communicate with spirit world. It is not something I would ever have thought of doing myself, but after I became aware of the problem he posed,… Continue Reading →
Building a Platform for Peace
By Andrew Wilson On February 26, the Fourth Think Tank 2022 Forum for the reunification of North and South Korea was held which featured former U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper. Appearing with him were former military leaders, former senior officials, and academics from the United States, South Korea and Japan. Afterwards, Secretary Esper took… Continue Reading →
The Principled Solution to the Tangled Skein of History Begins in Korea
By Sun Myung Moon This is a selection of From the One to All Beings, commonly known in the Unification Church as Wolli Wonbon, which Sun Myung Moon wrote in 1951 while living as a refugee in Pusan. The only book that he wrote in his own hand, its nearly 700 pages covers all aspects of the Divine Principle… Continue Reading →
Heavenly Parent and the God of Dual Characteristics
By Tyler Hendricks Soon after the ascension of her husband, Rev. Sun Myung Moon (for Unificationists, Father Moon), Dr. Hak Ja Han (Mother Moon) said that God is Hanul Bumo, Korean for Heavenly Parent(s). She thus upended 2,000 years of Christian understanding as well as the normative understanding of her own movement. Some criticized her… Continue Reading →
Passing on Our Religious Tradition to the Next Generation
By Jennifer Tanabe My new publication, The Quest to Pass on our Religious Tradition to the Next Generation, co-authored with Dr. Rollain Nsemi Muanda, discusses the difficult challenge faced by all parents of faith in passing on their tradition to their children. The following is based upon excerpts from this book. * * * When… Continue Reading →
Why Does True Mother Call Herself the Only Begotten Daughter?
By Andrew Wilson Since August 2014, Hak Ja Han Moon, the widowed spouse of Rev. Sun Myung Moon whom FFWPU members call True Mother, has been proclaiming herself “the only begotten Daughter.” The title itself is well-established in Rev. Moon’s teaching: “The only begotten Son needs the only begotten Daughter” (May 1968), and “The Messiah,… Continue Reading →
Insights from the Bible for a Scripture of True Parents
By Andrew Wilson I recently returned from a conference in Korea that asked, “What should be in a scripture that testifies to Rev. Sun Myung Moon and Dr. Hak Ja Han Moon as True Parents?” In considering this question as a biblical scholar, there is no better starting point than to examine the Bible and… Continue Reading →
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