O-H?

O-H?

I-O! For eons OHIO has been making the trek all the way out the NY to participate in galas, sports festivals, etc, and who hasn’t been drawn into their enthusiastic state pride? I know I was rooting for all the Ohio teams during last summer’s blessed culture and sports festival even though I am from [...]

How to organize a benefit concert and still be an awesome student!!

How to organize a benefit concert and still be an awesome student!!

It may sound impossible, folks, but it is amazing what a little passion, directing of energies, and connecting of the right people to the right cause can do. This was certainly a busy semester for Hyun Moraes, student at Berklee College of Music in Boston, but that did not stop him from pairing with Jennifer [...]

Unificationist Student-Athlete Featured in Sports Illustrated

Unificationist Student-Athlete Featured in Sports Illustrated

Joseph Wonman Williams, a second-generation Unificationist attending the University of Virginia (UVA) who underwent an eight-day hunger-strike earlier this year as a part of the Living Wage Campaign, was featured in a fourteen-page story in the July 9, 2012 issue of Sports Illustrated. Williams is from Sterling, VA and has completed his third year at [...]

Victor Williams Combines Faith and Football to Make a Splash on Campus

Victor Williams Combines Faith and Football to Make a Splash on Campus

  Click here for Bridgewater College’s Special Profile on Victor Willams. Second-generation Unificationist Seungnan (Victor) Williams, 22, knows what it means to beat the odds. As the son of a single mother, Williams has moved over 36 times in his life due to financial difficulty, living at times in homeless shelters and church basements. Yet [...]

The Following is the Ultimate Story of Turning Lemons into Lemonade.

The Following is the Ultimate Story of Turning Lemons into Lemonade.

Unificationism is still a young religion. As we college-aged Unificationists know from our parents’ stories, it didn’t always have the best rep. And while we slowly pulled away from the limelight, we still experience the odd stinging comment here and there. Luckily though, Headquarters has a tiny but passionate team dedicated to creating a better [...]

Lemons into Lemonade Part 2: Pennsylvanian Community Feels the Effects of the Insulting Article in the Form of Harassment from Crazy Co-workers, and a Protest Letter is Written.

Lovin’ Life Pastors To Meet with Editors of the Daily Pennsylvanian Contributed by Douglas Burton.  A letter of protest to the editors of the Daily Pennsylvanian(DP) from Rev. Joshua Cotter, vice president of the Unification Church USA and personal visits of church leaders on Tuesday appear to have registered some notice, according to Pastor Leighton DeGoede, [...]

Lemons into Lemonade Part 3: Meeting Finally Ensues, Happy Ending is in Sight.

Doug Burton, Public Affairs Director at HQ , wrote this email summarizing the meeting with editors of the Daily Pennsylvanian: To sum up: the meeting is something we tried to get with the top editor on Tuesday afternoon when Marion Miller and I were in Philadelphia to press our case. Leighton, Marion, and I visited [...]

Lemons into Lemonade Part 4: Glenn Shrum, Author of the Original Article, Visits Lovin’ Life Ministries in Philadelphia and Writes a Better-Informed Piece.

Creating a New Generation of the Unification Church Reprinted courtesy of the Daily Pennsylvanian By GLENN SHRUM· May 10, 2012, 10:51 pm Lovin’ Life was founded nationally in 2009 as a contemporary ministry of the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, more widely known as the Unification Church. Founded in South Korea by Sun Myung [...]

Recent grad shares some thoughts about Transition

4.0 Club- Round 2

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