Urantia Book Commentary and Articles: 2008-12-07

There are 3 primary organizations associated with The Urantia Book.

From their website www.urantia.org: "Urantia Foundation was established in 1950 to be the custodian of the inviolate text of The Urantia Book and to ensure that the book's teachings are spread, with the help of readers and fraternal organizations, to all people." The Foundation's headquarters are at 533 Diversey Ave., Chicago.

The Urantia Book Fellowship is the social branch through which the book's teachings are spread although the distinction between the functions of the Foundation and the Fellowship has become blurred. From its establishment in 1955 until the late 1980s the Fellowship was known as the Urantia Brotherhood and then the name was changed. The Fellowship's headquarters are a mail box in Grand Central Station, (PO Box 4583), New York, and in the electronic ether through telephone, internet (www.urantiabook.org) and email as well as committee meetings throughout the year.

The Beliefs and Mission statement of the Jesusonian Foundation state: "Our mission is to encourage and assist individuals in developing a personal faith relationship with our Heavenly Father by sharing the supernal teachings of Jesus in The Urantia Book with them and nurturing them as believers." The Jesusonian Foundation is a private non-profit organization established in the late 1990's which focuses on promoting the teachings of Jesus through their web site www.truthbook.com as those teachings are portrayed in The Urantia Book. The headquarters office for the Jesusonian Foundation is in Boulder, Colorado (PO Box 38).

The current version of the Truthbook.com web site was launched in 2002.

For more of the history of these and other organizations please visit the Urantia Book Historical Society's archives at www.ubhistory.org and select the subject "organizations".

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