Its main textbook is the Bible and it relates its lessons to your life and everyday experiences. Jesus expressed his divine potential and sought to show us how to express ours as well. Salvation is then the expanding understanding of one's innate divinity and perfectibility through living the life demonstrated by Jesus. Prayer is not seen as a technique for changing God, but for expanding and transforming your mind, and thus changing you. It sees that there are evil appearances and suffering in the world, but ascribes these to one's ignorance and erroneous use of God's laws of Life.
Unity chooses to believe that there is good in every religion.
Different religions are like spokes on a wheel, with the hub being God. They may be set apart by a variance of beliefs and approaches, but they are all seeking the one God as the hub of all life. It seeks not to emphasize one's sins in the past but, instead, gives attention to the good that exists in everyone and what can be done now to transform one's self and life. Unity believes in eternal life and views the present moment as part of eternal life. It believes the desire for giving should be initiated from within the giver to reap the joys of sharing.