Go into All the World, To Every Race, Tribe, and Nation, Jay Newbern
Do This in Remembrance of Me, John Marks
God’s Gender, Richard I. Bain
The Commission to Minister, Meredith J. Sprunger
History’s Unpredictability
A New Millennium Church
A Celebration of Low Technology
In His Presence
A Communion Service
The Resurrection of Value
¶ The Spiritual Fellowship of Students of The Urantia Book
A Journal Established to Promote Theological, Philosophical, and Polity Discussions Germane to An Appropriate Symbolism and Socioreligious Expression of the Fifth Epochal Revelation.
The central objective of a group of people interested in initiating a new religious organization based on the teachings of the Fifth Epochal Revelation should be to create a polity with maximum flexibility that would function with small groups or large congregations, utilize lay leadership and/or ordained clergy, have crosscultural adaptibility, and broad theological inclusiveness.
Such an institution would be “ a gathering of persons who have accepted a common purpose, and a common discipline to guide the pursuit of that purpose, to the end that each involved person reaches higher fulfillment as a person, through serving and being served by the common venture, than would be achieved alone or in a less committed relationship.”2
Editorial Committee
Bud Bromley
Judy Smith
Irene Sprunger
Jack Williams
Editorial Consultants
Larry & Joan Mullins
Andre Radatus
Resource Consultants
David Biggs
David & Rebecca Kantor
Rosey Lieske
Victor McGonnegal
The Spiritual Fellowship Journal is an ecumenical publication published twice yearly jointly by The Christian Fellowship of Students of The Urantia Book in Fort Wayne, Indiana and the Christ Michael Corps for Publishing and Outreach in Boulder, Colorado.
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History’s Unpredictability
The educational-fellowship organizations in the Urantia movement are bogged down in internal strife. The enculturation of society will have to wait for the appearance of religious organizations.
Is it Time for New Religious Organizations?
One wonders if the secular organizations in the Urantia movement are the proper aegis for the outreach of the teachings of the Urantia Papers?
Aspects of Prophetic Leadership.
Study groups provide ideal training for religious ministry and the foundation for organizing new religious organizations.
A New Millennium Church
The new paradigm churches developing in our society suggest that our world is being prepared for religious organizations inspired by the Fifth Epochal Revelation.
Articles
Go into All the World.
Translations of the Urantia Papers in 20 languages is an important step in the outreach of the teachings of the Fifth Epochal Revelation.
Do This in Remembrance of Me
Ritual is the main human technique for dramatizing and preserving religious sentiments and ideals.
Communion Service
A suggestive example of a formal Communion Service.
God’s Gender
Reflection on the gender-biased language of the Urantia Papers.
The Commission to Minister.
The distinctive characteristic of the religion of the Spirit is the entrality of service and evangelism.