Robert Epstein, former editor-in-chief of Psychology Today and a Ph.D. in psychology of Harvard University, exchanges ideas on the topic of arranged marriages with Jack LaValley, founder of true4ever, an information-based business that helps men and women learn how to create romantic partnerships that grow in love and intimacy over a lifetime. Dr. Epstein is the author of Teen 2.0: Saving Our Children and Families from the Torment of Adolescence; The Case Against Adolescence: Rediscovering the Adult in Every Teen; and The Big Book of Creativity Games: Quick, Fun Activities for Jumpstarting Innovation.

The following feature story has been written by abstinence educator Bruce Smith, a lay minister for Lovin’ Life Ministries in Indianapolis, Indiana. Smith, who organized a day-long conference titled Stopping the Porn Culture last December, is now encouraging residents of Indiana to get involved in the human-/sex trafficking issues of the state.

Since July of 2011, Sara R. Franklin, a Unificationist mother and president of Union County’s Women’s Federation for World Peace (WFWP), has valiantly met the call of an Elizabeth, New Jersey’s Councilman for volunteers to help create a cleaner and healthier environment in Union County.

The third annual CARP Winter Ball, billed as “A Royal Affair,” drew nearly double the number of participants as last year and rave reviews from attendees. The gala on Dec. 30, 2011 was attended by more than 900 Unificationists from around the United States as well as overseas to kick of the New Year in the Hammerstein Ballroom of the Manhattan Center.

Shortly after returning from Pyongyang, North Korea where he commemorated the 20th anniversary of Rev. Sun Myung Moon's meeting with President Kim Il Sung, Rev. Hyung Jin Moon, the International President of the Unification Church and Chairman of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) International, traveled back to Pyongyang on December 24, 2011 to pay his respects to the late Kim Jong Il.

More than 100 people from all faiths, including six Christian ministers, gathered Saturday, December 17, 2011 at the Bay Area Family Church to hear Women’s activist Daphne Phung speak about the "Hope for Ending the Atrocity of Human Trafficking in California." Phung is the founder of California Against Slavery (CAS), a non-profit, non-partisan human rights organization focusing on putting an end to human sex trafficking. This issue was brought to the attention of the Unification Church community a few months ago by Mrs. Pat Defletsen and Mrs. Makiko Watanabe, who helped to hold the event at the monthly Community of Faith Prayer breakfast at the Bay Area location of Lovin’ Life Ministries.

Two young Unificationists on a cross-country bicycle trip got a warm welcome at the Georgia State Capitol on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011. A press event hosted by Georgia State Sen. Donzella James at the State Capitol building welcomed John Seijin Tranberg, 22, and Joshua Wildman, 21, of Los Angeles, who are doing the 2,300 mile trip under the banner of “Faith, Family, and Freedom.” Tranberg explained that he was doing the exhausting trip to call attention to the faith-breaking persecution of his fellow Unificationists in Japan which goes on under the noses of Japanese police and without the enforcement of laws that guarantee freedom of religion for all citizens.