Celebrate Yourself! by Eric Butterworth

This book of short essays led to hours of lively discussion in our metaphysics group at Unity Church. Butterworth was a prominent Unity minister who had a knack for explaining Unity principles from the practical ("You don't have to make a nuisance of yourself by criticizing negative people." p. 28) to the transcendent ("...it is wisdom to turn from appearances and know the Truth, to see through all limitation to the cosmic vision of wholeness." p. 185). Part of the fun of discussing Butterworth was that we sometimes disagreed with him, e.g. when he describes God as a Mother-Father figure with the mother part being the heart and the father part being wisdom. Apart from what we regard as sexism, this approach is entirely too anthropomorphic for our group.