Unity Church (Fillmore)
From Kook Science
The Unity Church, known formally simply as Unity, is a religious organisation, founded as the United School of Christianity (also referred to as the Unity Society of Practical Christianity) at Kansas City, Missouri in 1889 by Charles and Myrtle Fillmore, students of E. B. Weeks, a New Thought lecturer. The couple established the church following Myrtle Fillmore's recovery from tuberculosis, which they attributed to a system of prayer and associated methods of mind-cure, and some decades later, following the First World War, established the Unity Village on a 1,200-acre territory some 15 miles (~24 km) southeast of Kansas City.
Press Coverage
- "AN ENGLISH VILLAGE HERE: INDEPENDENT COMMUNITY ON UNITY SCHOOL FARM", The Kansas City Star (Kansas City, MO): 49, 2 Sep. 1923, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120769194/an-english-village-here-independent/
- "Story and Message of Unity Told In a New Book for General Sale: First Such Publication Printed Outside the Unity Shops, 'The Unity Treasure Chest' Is an Informative Anthology Edited by Lowell Fillmore — Reliance on Faith and Prayer Is the Keynote of Writings of Various Authors.", The Kansas City Times (Kansas City, MO), 16 Mar. 1956, https://www.newspapers.com/clip/120768731/story-and-message-of-unity-told-in-a/