Welcome to Unity of Durham

Rev. Dagmar Mikkila

Mission

Creating, Empowering and Demonstrating with ease and grace, Truth & Wholeness in our lives and in the lives of others.

Vision

Co-creating with God, we own the leading state-of-the-art Spiritual Centre, which is debt-free, fully sustainable, seats and serves 1000 people and is easily accessible.

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Unity is positive, practical, progressive approach to Christianity based on the teachings of Jesus and the power of prayer. Unity honours the universal truths in all religions and respects each individual's right to choose a spiritual path.

Unity Stands For:

Peace in the presence of conflict;
Love in the presence of hatred;
Forgiveness in the presence of injury.

Unity Honours

The many names for God,
The many paths to God,
The many ways to worship God;
for there is only one power and presence of God and that God loves each one of us equally.
It is therefore the position of Unity to urge all nations, their leaders, and their people to turn to God by whatever the name for guidance during these challenging times and pursue peace, not war, for this is what honors the God of all our faith traditions. Unity stands for peace in our lifetime.

God God is Spirit, the loving source of all that is. God is the one power, all good, everywhere present, all wisdom. God is divine energy, continually creating, expressing and sustaining all creation. In God, we live and move and have our being. In Unity, some other ways we speak of God are Life, Light, Love, Substance, Principle, Law, and Universal Mind.

Jesus We believe that Jesus expressed his divine potential and sought to show humankind how to express ours as well. We see Jesus as a master teacher of universal truths and as our Way-Shower. In Unity, we use the term "Christ" to mean the divinity in humankind,. Jesus is the great example of the Christ in expression.

The Nature of Humankind We are each individual eternal expressions of God. Our essential nature is divine and therefore inherently good. Our purpose is to express our divine potential as realized and demonstrated by Jesus and other master teachers. The more we awaken to our divine nature, the more fully God expresses in and through our lives.