Explore the World’s Religions

The same ancient spiritual principles run like a thread through the world’s religions and are the foundation of Unity teachings. In this Unity Books Presents conversation, you’ll learn what these vibrant teachings are and how they can be practiced today.

Author Paul John Roach will be joined by Philip Goldberg, author of American Veda (Harmony, 2010), and Vanessa R. Sasson, a Canadian religious studies professor, to discuss the inspiring ideas that have suffused humanity around the globe for thousands of years.

Find the Same Principles in Unity

In Unity and World Religions, Roach connects the dots between Unity teachings and the tenets of other faiths. He elaborates on the five universal principles taught in Unity and shows how they are expressed through Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, and more. Even for people who are not in Unity, each chapter is a crash course in the basic elements of each religion.

Panelists

• Author Paul John Roach is a longtime Unity minister who has hosted World Spirituality on Unity Online Radio for a dozen years. Now he has written Unity and World Religions, tracing the spiritual principles taught for thousands of years in major faiths throughout the world and illustrating how they coalesce within Unity teachings. He led Unity Fort Worth, Texas, for 30 years and has traveled extensively, including extended stays in India and Nepal.

• Philip Goldberg is an author, speaker, meditation teacher, and ordained interfaith minister known for his book American Veda, a look at how the wisdom teachings of India have impacted Western culture and the spiritual outlook of Americans. His latest book, Spiritual Practice for Crazy Times (Hay House, 2020), is also a 12-part podcast series on Unity Online Radio.

• Vanessa R. Sasson is professor of religious studies at Marianopolis College in Quebec where she has been teaching since 1999. She is also a research fellow at the University of the Free State in South Africa and a research member of CERIAS at the University of Quebec at Montreal. She has written academic books and also converted her research into a novel, Yasodhara(Speaking Tiger Books, 2018), about the Buddha’s wife who was left behind when he launched his quest for enlightenment.

• Host Ellen Debenport is a Unity minister, vice president of publishing for Unity World Headquarters, and author of The Five Principles (Unity Books, 2009). She edited Unity and World Religions for Unity Books.

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Questions

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