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Archives History

In the 1950s, New Thought minister Raymond Charles Barker joined with scholar Charles S. Braden, author of Spirits In Rebellion, the standard history of the New Thought movement, to implement a project that would result in the collecting and storing of archival materials dealing with New Thought. In the following decades, this collection was housed at the Bridwell Library of Southern Methodist University and at the Unity Library of Unity School of Christianity. After the completion of the archives building adjoining INTA headquarters, the collection was moved there in 1990. For half a century, INTA members have dedicated themselves to collecting the material that documents the New Thought Movement, and materials are added daily.

Raymond Charles Barker

Addington Archives

& Research Center


Celebrating

Our Past

Preserving

Our History

Understanding

Our Present

Illuminating

Our Future

Archives Purpose


The purpose of the Addington INTA Archives is to identify, collect, organize, describe, preserve, and provide access to the historical and ongoing records of the activities of national and international INTA and the New Thought Movement. Its overall mission is to provide the message of the New Thought Movement to humanity. As an administrative unit within the organizational structure of the INTA, the Archives is responsible for maintaining the records that document the legal, fiscal, administrative, and historical activities of the INTA.

Archives Stewardship Society

Your Help Is Desired. We ask our members and friends to assist us in fulfilling one of INTA's vital services to the world of New Thought. In addition to the $100,000 endowment established by the Addingtons' Abundant Living Foundation and the money received from our stewards, we need an additional $878,000 endowment from one or more sources to assure the growth and operation of our archives. The archives chair can also be separately endowed and established in the name of the donor. The archives fund needs to reach sufficient size to support a full-time Director of Archives and the continuing work of archiving incoming material.

Archives

Stewardship Society

Membership

Requirement for membership in the Society is a tax deductible contribution to INTA Archives Endowment of $11.00 or more each month or $125.00 for the year. Upon completion of this requirement, your name will be placed on the Archives Stewardship Society Roll in the archives reading room. The individuals and groups who are stewards or are in the process of completing their Stewardship are an inspiration for others to follow.

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The Future

With continuing support in the form of donated collections, the archives will provide a place for all New Thought materials to be preserved permanently and made available for study and research. If you know of material that should be housed in the archives, please contact INTA headquarters.

The Sasselein Peace Chapel

The Archives building also contains the beautiful Sasselein Peace Chapel,which seats 30 people. It is a special place of inspiration with its 5x7 ft. specially commissioned stained glass window, entitled "Transcendence." A prayer service is held in the Chapel Monday through Friday at noon. Each individual and group member of INTA, Archive Stewardship Society member, and INTA Prayer Partner throughout the world is included in the prayer time. All of those who have preceded us in the dissemination of New Thought are honored through prayer. Each world leader and each member of the family of humanity is included in prayers for peace, protection, illumination and well-being.

Please direct inquiries

about the archives to:

intaarchives@newthoughtalliance.org

To help sustain the Archives a nominal fee will be charged for Archive research services. Thanks for Understanding!

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