The Daily Word is a daily inspirational message provided by the Unity Church of Christianity

Unity Church

Unity, known informally as Unity Church, is a religious movement within the wider New Thought movement and is best known to many through its Daily Word devotional publication...

. Themes include inner peace, hope, healing, guidance, and others. It is distributed via magazine

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, and e-mail

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History

The Daily Word magazine was first published in 1924 and has been in print continuously for more than 80 years. In the early years, most of the messages were written by its first editor, Frank B. Whitney.

The magazine became a bimonthly in 2009. Each issue includes two months of daily affirmative messages, along with feature articles and spiritual poetry. Subscriptions are available for print editions as well as an online edition with audio — Daily Word Digital Magazine, which was introduced in 2009. The magazine is published by Unity whose world headquarters are at Unity Village, Missouri. It is mailed to 600,000 subscribers in over 150 countries, and is translated into seven languages. Additional readers purchase the magazine at their local Unity church.

Daily Word in Braille began in 1934, and is available for free to the blind through Message of Hope. Daily Word in Spanish, La Palabra Diaria, was first published in March of 1955. Daily Word in Large Type was introduced in 1978.

Laura Harvey is the current editor. Among Daily Words former editors are Colleen Zuck and Martha Smock. The magazine has featured articles contributed by many prominent thinkers, including Wayne Dyer

Wayne Dyer

Wayne Walter Dyer is an American self-help advocate, author, and lecturer.- Early life :Dyer was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Melvin Lyle and Hazel Irene Dyer and spent much of his adolescence in an orphanage on the east side of Detroit. Dr. Wayne Dyer is a 1958 graduate of Denby High School;...

, Naomi Judd

Naomi Judd

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, Mark Victor Hansen

Mark Victor Hansen

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, Wally Amos

Wally Amos

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, June Allyson

June Allyson

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, and Thomas Moore

Thomas Moore

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. Cartoonist Bill Keane has also contributed.

External links

• Daily Word on the Unity website.