Manifesto
The movement that the Fillmores began was a fresh and Spirit-led response to fear-based Evangelicalism and primitive medical practices of the 19th Century. It was a religious reform movement and a medical reform movement, raising up the teaching and healing practices of Jesus to challenge the established power of both ministers and doctors. The Fillmores called their movement "practical Christianity" and implemented their movement through a magazine, a prayer ministry, and a loose affiliation of dedicated disciples they called "truth students."
Their religious reform movement upended the church by separating the person of Jesus from the Christ. They declared the Christ, the 2nd person of the Trinity, was the true image and likeness of God, that the Christ was placed in the human race at creation, and that the Christ was unknown to human beings until the time of Jesus. Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, was the Wayshower who awakened our inner Christ and brought it into conscious awareness.
The Fillmore's medical reform movement, along with Mary Baker Eddy's Christian Science, upended the doctors by demonstrating the healing power of an awakened inner Christ that has aligned the Spirit, soul, and body of the individual and established oneness with God, the transcendent Father. Health and wholeness are experienced when an aligned individual experiences oneness with God.
The Fillmores conveyed the teachings and practices of Jesus to their truth students through metaphorical and anagogical interpretation of the Bible and a metaphysical worldview. However, we have come to a point where the movement founded by the Fillmores is embracing a historical understanding of the Bible that is spiral and evolutionary, and a form of metaphysics that is non-theistic and Christless.
Historical and evolutionary Bible interpretation may speak eloquently of consciousness and oneness, but it lacks the transforming love and moral gravity that the Christ Idea brings—the awareness that the Divine is not only in us but seeks to work through and as us. Also, without the Christ as the living, thriving center of metaphysics, the Fillmore teaching loses its redemptive and transformative core. It stops short at Mind Science and dead-ends into another expression of religious intent that may improve the human experience, but does not bring about the fullest expression of the inner Christ and the transcendent Father, nor the life abundant of which Jesus spoke.
Historical Bible interpretation and non-theistic metaphysics can be effective pathways to human progress. So we do not reject the “all pathways” idea of universalism. Whatever model is actually producing spiritual fruit will, in time, produce more fruit, abiding fruit, and fruit that glorifies the Father. Improvement can indeed be discovered through disciplined mind-work, and as more light is received, more is given. But these are supplements to the Fillmore teachings, not a substitute for them. That universalism may be effective does not necessarily mean we are experiencing fullness of kingdom living here and now, nor the fullness of the unseen cosmos of then and there.
Suppose the movement founded by the Fillmores moves toward a brand of universalism that sidelines Christ. In that case, it risks repeating the same mistakes that fundamentalist religion has made in the opposite direction—only this time, instead of worshipping form, it worships abstraction. The strength of the Fillmore movement is not found in brand conformity but in the divine diversity of Christ-conscious individuals who bring their own light to the One Light. We firmly believe that the metaphysical framework taught by the Fillmores must remain fully Christ-centered if it is to stay truly transformative.
Mission
The mission of TruthUnity Ministries is to engage culture in the digital age, cultivating awareness, practice and commitment to the metaphysical teachings of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore.
Vision
We envision a fellowship of people who proclaim and promote metaphysical Christianity as an authentic and distinct expression of the historic Christian faith—an educational movement inaugurated by Jesus Christ.
Strategy
Our strategy for engaging culture is:
To carry on the work of Charles and Myrtle Fillmore in bringing the insights of metaphysical Christianity to the churches. The Fillmores believed that congregants in the churches would read their articles, apply Emily Cady’s Lessons in Truth, and take what they learned back to their home church. They saw themselves as participants in “the educational movement inaugurated by Jesus Christ.” Given the nearly 3 billion people who identify as Christian and the declining membership in Christian churches, I believe the Fillmore teachings have much to offer. My job is to carry on the work of the Fillmores.
To teach a spiritual pathway with four steps: to be raised up, inspired, made whole, and returned home. I begin my prayers, “Jesus Christ is here now, raising me up to that place where the Holy Spirit pours out its inspiration me.” Raised up and inspired needs no elaboration. They are our affirmation of Oneness: unity with God. I conclude my prayers, “I am metaphysically made whole and I return to my home.” These terms need some elaboration. First, being made whole is wholeness; it is not oneness. Oneness is unity with God, which is affirmed in the opening sentence. Wholeness is an internal unity of body, soul and spirit, aligned with God. When we are unified internally and aligned with God, we become metaphysically whole. No prayer nor any spiritual pathway is complete without a metaphysical realization of wholeness. This leaves us with the task of returning home.
Ultimately, to return metaphysically-healed people home: to their family, friends and faith community. John Shelby Spong visited Unity Village in 2008. He said, “You have a lot of broken people that come into Unity to be healed. They might not stay. They might get healed and go back home. And that will happen. You ought to rejoice in that. That’s a part of your ministry....” I get no greater joy than when an email comes in saying, “Mark, I’ve returned to my Catholic faith. I am thankful for my time in Unity. It has allowed me to see my upbringing in a new way.” Friends, this is my story as well. I came into Unity skeptical and cynical. The Fillmore teachings provided a way forward, gave me back the Gospel, and enabled me to return home, to the mainstream Christian church.
Funding
How we fund this ministry. We rely on the spiritual Principle of Giving and Receiving for our support. Click here to see our financial reporting.
Many blessings,
Rev. Mark Hicks
Founder, TruthUnity Ministries
October 25, 2025
Affiliation
TruthUnity Ministries, the publisher of Fillmore Faith, is a 501(c)3 educational non-profit that has a collegial relationship with but is independent from the Unity School of Christianity, dba Unity World Headquarters and the Association of Unity Churches, dba Unity Worldwide Ministries.
