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By Sage Cole The Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative (HKSLC) is getting ready to incorporate as a unique constituent body of the Swedenborgian Church of North America. The seed planted in 2018 at the Cambridge Swedenborg Chapel has sprouted! What a journey to get to this moment, and what a journey ahead. Originally conceived as […]
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By Rev. Dr. Amanda Adams Riley, Rev. Dr. David C. Brown,Pastor Connie McOsker and the 2024 PCA Planning Committee It was October 2018, in the toasty warm fireside room of the Swedenborgian Church of San Francisco, Nancy Richardson stood up and invited everyone to cruise on a tall ship. The decision was being made as
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Sermon from October 15, 2024 Written by Rich Tafel Over the last few weeks, I’ve been filling up bags and boxes as I’m leaving old spaces behind. As I helped clean out my father’s apartment, I returned to D.C. only to have to clean out my office here. God is not being subtle with me
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By Leone Dyer All fundraisers start with a vision of soliciting income through selling a craft. Whether it is selling tickets to a concert, lecture, or raffle, asking people to run three miles, or trading food for cash, it all starts with a vision of what can be created to sell. Each year, the Fryeburg New
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By Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence The Swedenborgian Church of North America has supported a denomination project for an online community that collapses geographic separations. For two decades, with the work and support of many laypersons and under the leadership of three ministers, the denomination’s project has steadily grown and evolved in its skills and practices
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Year of the Word 2024–2025 By Brian KingslakeAdapted By Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence Swedenborg’s eyes were opened into the spiritual world so that he could tell us about life after death. But an even more important purpose was that he should reveal for us the spiritual sense of the Word of God. Most people recognize
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By Beki Greenwood **Be sure to view this article in full with placed images in the September / October Issue** As we settle back into school and our busy fall schedule, I keep finding myself reflecting on our summer. For the first time, my kids and I attended not only convention, but both Almont and
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By Beki Greenwood As usual, I’m finding it hard to believe that it is October already. Enjoying the erratic New England weather where you need to be prepared for three seasons in one day—could be forty-nine degrees, or eighty; blazing sun then pouring rain. You just never know. I personally like it. Today is rainy,
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By Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence The American attorney and newspaper publisher Francis Butter Murdoch (1808–1882), who helped organize the first Swedenborgian congregation in St. Louis, also saved Harriet and Dred Scott’s slavery freedom case from never happening. Due to their lack of funds, the Scotts had several attorneys drop their case, reports Lea VanderVelde, a
