In the metaphysical world that the Rev. Dr. Blaine C. Mays (1933 – 2018) navigated, many streams of religious philosophy flow — Unity, Religious Science, Divine Science, Practical Christianity, University of Healing, Truth Centers, Universal Foundation for Better Living and more.
Blaine was a second generation Truth student and Unity minister.
His mother was a Unity minister; his father, Religious Science. Both parents were educators and ministers. Together they founded the Lola Pauline Mays New Thought School of Ministry, which has graduatedand ordained many New Thought ministers. Blaine ultimately served as Dean of the school.
Blaine was ordained a Unity minister in 1957 at the age of 24. He served as a spiritual leader in Unity and New Thought for the past 63 years a tenure of service that surpasses that of the Unity founders. His service included 27 years as senior minister of Unity of Phoenix and, since 1991, minister of the Community Church of New Thought, the church his parents founded.
Blaine was active in the International New Thought Alliance (INTA) for 47 years, first serving as a board member, then 38 years as president and 22 years as CEO, a position he held at his passing. He took personal responsibility for preserving a large metaphysical library at the INTA Archives in Mesa, Arizona, which is open to all interested students. He also served in Silent Unity where he met his wife and spiritual partner.
The Mays family is unique in the history of the New Thought movement. Beginning with Blaine's mother and father, and continuing with his brother and sister, and even his wife, all of them have become ordained ministers in New Thought. Their ordinations included, Unity, Religious Science, Divine Science, and perhaps some ordinations by independent New Thought ministers and organizations.
http://obituariesforangels.com/obituary/949/AZ/Mesa/Rev.+Dr.+Blaine_C._Mays/
https://www.truthunity.net/books/ponderings-8
https://www.truthunity.net/people/blaine-mays
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