My Unity Church Experience

Dearest J,

Last week I went to visit a Unity Church service after my own church experience. I went for the following reasons:

I am starting to feel really weird about my my church, and the things I’m learning there
I’m starting to feel like my “small-small” community group at church is basically just filled with gossip. And I’m not ok with that.
I’m reading “A Course in Miracles” and see that the higher-power I’m having (in line with the 12-step program) isn’t aligning to the traditional Christian belief, especially the one in church.
Taking of the eucharist is getting weird to me — I get it at church, but the verbiage around it is missing: why are we glorifying Jesus instead of his message, and not glorifying each other and ourselves in our worthiness BEFORE God the Father?

Anyways, Unity was weird. When they said they’d have a drag performance there and to buy tickets, my eyes visibly exploded probably. I couldn’t believe it.

During the service, people turned to one another and looked each other in the eye that they matter and singing about “Seeing the Christ in YOU!” including a separate kids ministry that did just that. The adults said they saw the Christ in the kids, and the kids said they see the Christ in the adults. CRAZY! But kind of great, I did cry. Very ACIM moment — because earlier in the church service, I realized everyone’s looking “down” while they pray and it’s weird that everything is so “independent” and no communal. I literally wondered how it would work to have everyone look at each other and claim that each other are “Christ” — and how that would go. So the Unity service was almost like, the actual experience of that. LOL!

During the service, the Pastor mentioned that it’s spiritual malpractice to have the “idea” that we are manifesting our own illness, and wow that totally blew me away. Because in ACIM, you’re responsible for your own illness. So I followed up with her to ask her to elaborate on that (it was a female pastor to, btw, WHEW my fundamentalist background was yelling wtf is this place the whole time). And she did — and asked me to join the meeting they were about to have, which was about interpreting scripture from a metaphysical worldview.

Anyway, they told me to use this website: https://www.truthunity.net/ and in particular, look up the “metaphysical Bible dictionary” for each word. And whoa, I realized that this church literally created their own definitions on EVERYTHING, including God, Holy Spirit, Christ, EVERYTHING — and they use some WILD word definitions in metaphysical terms. WHEW I’m telling you! I mean look at this below, where they even talk about GOD AS HEALTH: