Gardner, York and Block

Dear Mr. York: As reader services correspondent at Fellowship headquarters, I would like to thank you for sending us your review article of Martin Gardner's Urantia. Of the half-dozen reviews we've read, yours is certainly the most serious, insightful and heartening. It was also gratifying to learn that you met your first Urantia Book believers during your visit to our information center at the 1993 Parliament of the World's Religions. Perhaps we met there; I'm Matthew Block, the " hopelessly naive " Urantian who has gained notoriety for my discoveries of sources of The Urantia Book. I currently work full-time for the Fellowship, but manage to find time to continue my research. At last count, I've collected 75 books which, collectively, parallel portions of about 100 Papers. I found your insights on the Urantia Book's affinities with other sects and belief systems most interesting. As someone who is also engaged in trying to place the teachings of The UB within the context of intellectual history, I thought I would offer some feedback to some of your observations. In doing so, however, I don't wish to burden you with the feeling that you need to reply. ➤