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The Father Divine ProjectMain Menu"Inside the Kingdom": The Evolution of the Peace Mission"A Greater Picture of ME": The Peace Mission ArchiveSince the late 1930s, Father Divine and his followers oversaw the documentation of the Peace Mission's own history and public pronouncements in a weekly newspaper, with wire and tape recordings, film and photography."I Know You Are God": A Database Documentary by Will LuersAbout The Father Divine ProjectWill Luers2f0376b300f2ff7145f4f5c8f06d3ab51e0c730dLeonard Norman Primianob55769156974a9bf4a4c74973f47ef4191206d21
Mother Divine
1-001-11-30T00:00:00-07:52Craig Dietrich2d66800a3e5a1eaee3a9ca2f91f391c8a6893490102The first part of a 1997 interview with Mother Divine held in Sayville, Long Island. She talks about her marriage to Father Divine as a supernatural experience.plain2011-05-07T00:51:16-07:00wluers@gmail.comCritical CommonsWill Luers2f0376b300f2ff7145f4f5c8f06d3ab51e0c730d
Since Father Divine's physical passing in 1965, Mother Divine has presided over the Peace Mission, and the Movement has developed a matriarchal quality, with Mother Divine maintaining her husband's moral and religious standards as she looks after the spiritual and temporal needs of their "children" or followers. Though the membership of about 100 is elderly and dwindling, Mother Divine maintains the Peace Mission standards for living and believing from her estate in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia. Abundance of material wealth signifies "Heaven on Earth." Still, she has changed certain aspects of the lives of followers. For example, Mother Divine transformed elements of their principle ritual, the Holy Communion Banquet Service, when she introduced in the late 1970s concepts from vegetarianism and macrobiotics transforming food preparation, food ingredients, and even eating habits of the followers. A focus on the health of the aging body.