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Urantia is Getting Around · Urantia Radio

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  Well, I've got some good news. The report from the Rancher
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  Foundation presented by our dear friend MO Siegel, the President,
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  and his letter 2026 on the overview of the past year of the
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  Urantia Foundation and all the things that they're involved
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  with. MO writes a great comment here.
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  It's towards the end of his opening paragraph where he says
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  I often reflect on the wisdom of the Contact Commission, the
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  first people entrusted with stewarding the revelation to
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  humanity. Their counsel was simple and
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  enduring. Be patient.
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  This project is larger than any of us.
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  Be brave. Do not shrink from the
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  responsibility of sharing the revelation wisely and be
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  realistic in your expectations, remembering that lasting
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  spiritual evolution unfolds steadily, not suddenly.
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  And this is echoing what we were talking about in the previous
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  podcast and looking back at the four epical revelations that
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  preceded this one and the approach that the individuals
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  involved in each of those epics and how they dealt with teaching
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  the revelation, teaching revelatory truth to our fellows.
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  The other great paragraph I want to say before we get underway in
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  reviewing some of these numbers, MO writes, we are all deeply
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  privileged to serve Michael as a steward of this revelation.
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  During these early years, few generations have the opportunity
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  to participate in the growth of a revelatory project destined to
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  transfigure humanity's spiritual course.
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  When on the mansion worlds, we more fully grasp the
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  significance of this revelation and its unfolding impact, we
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  will look back with profound gratitude for being permitted to
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  help lay its foundation. That is a privilege of eternal
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  value. And 1 he says we will forever
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  cherish. And I agree completely.
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  He stated it beautifully. So how did we do?
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  How did the Arantia book do? As in the marketplace?
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  According to the report from the Foundation 20, over almost
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  24,000 books were sold and that was a 7% increase from the year
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  previous. There have been 53,600 downloads
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  and that was 21% more than the previous.
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  And then as far as books printed in other languages or in all
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  languages, 29,000 books were printed in English, Korean,
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  Portuguese and Spanish. Those are not small numbers.
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  As far as outreach, there have been 961,000 visitors, unique
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  visitors to urantia.org and there are 741,000 active users.
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  The top five visiting countries include the United States,
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  Brazil, Mexico, Spain and Canada. 37,000 visitors to the
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  Chinese section of the website in the final quarter of 2025,
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  and there were 1600 free outreach books distributed.
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  And this is interesting to me. 440 copies of The Untold Story
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  of Jesus were sent to ministers in the United States.
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  That is the planting of the seeds in a meaningful way.
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  And in some of my conversations with folks Lutheran,
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  particularly Episcopalian, they're a little bit more free
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  thinking and not as rigid as you might find in the evangelical
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  communities. And I, I think that I sense that
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  there will be much more tolerance today than 20 or 30
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  years ago in many of these denominations where they would
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  be open to the Jesus story. What I think we'll see over time
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  is it more and more ministers will be integrating Urantia
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  truths that are found about Jesus's life in Section 4.
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  See what else is significant to me?
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  Oh, the education. You know, we talked sometimes
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  about the Urantia Book Internet School and I've, I've taken a
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  couple of courses and it's a wonderful interchange between
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  fellow students of the Urantia Book and now they're offering
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  them in nine languages. 53 courses are offered, 734
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  students have enrolled and I believe that's just from this
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  year, 7 or 34. I, I could be wrong.
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  If I'm wrong, someone let me know.
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  Now what's real significant, if I can find it, is that they're
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  going to do something which we've talked about on this
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  program for quite some time, and it's an initiative, is to create
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  a global cultural and educational center.
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  And So what I will do is reach out to the foundation and ask
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  what that is. Creating and sustaining
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  thousands of study groups is vital.
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  MO says a publication mandate was presented to the early
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  leaders, instructing thousands of study groups must be brought
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  into existence and the book must be translated into many tongues.
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  Thus will the book be in readiness when the battle for
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  man's liberty is finally won and the world is once more made safe
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  for the religion of Jesus and the freedom of mankind.
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  Thanks to MO and really all the folks over at the Urantia
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  Foundation for their tireless efforts to keep the book out
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  there in the world. If you'd asked me 10 years ago,
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  I I would have been concerned about the Urantia book not
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  gaining ground. But there's just so much effort
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  and energy and that's being put into it.
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  So it's, it's a wonderful thing to see the flowers start to
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  bloom. See you next time.
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  And again, thank you. We'll talk to you again on the
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  Urantia Radio Podcast.