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Silent Unity and the Wider Movement

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Silent Unity and the Wider Movement

Silent Unity, the prayer ministry Myrtle Fillmore began, has answered written and telephoned requests for prayer continuously since the 1890s, a genuinely unusual institutional longevity that makes it one of the oldest continuously operating prayer request services of its kind anywhere in American religious life, staffed today by a rotating team who pray over each request received rather than simply filing it.

The Fillmores built a publishing operation alongside the prayer ministry from early on, and Unity's periodicals and books, including the long running Daily Word devotional, carried its teaching to a readership considerably larger than its formal congregational membership at any point in its history, a pattern typical of the New Thought movement generally, whose influence has often travelled further through published material than through organized congregations.

Present day Unity congregations are coordinated through Unity Worldwide Ministries, with a publishing and retreat centre maintained at Unity Village, Missouri, the movement's administrative and spiritual home since the early twentieth century. Unity has generally positioned itself as compatible with continued Christian church membership rather than as a replacement for it, and a considerable number of its adherents historically have described themselves as remaining members of a mainline denomination while also drawing on Unity teaching and literature, a dual affiliation the movement has not discouraged.

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