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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
By Donna Keane The “twelve gates” symbolize the knowledge of truth and good seen as a whole, which introduce us into the church. The “twelve pearls” also symbolize the knowledge of truth and good seen as a whole. This is why the gates were pearls. “Each of the gates was of one pearl” because all
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By Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence The professional path of chaplaincy gives rise to powerful ministry roles in the Swedenborgian Church of North America—the only branch of worldwide Swedenborgianism that supports chaplaincy as an official category of ordained ministry. Though we may be the only Swedenborgian denomination to honor and support chaplaincy ministry in this way,
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By Kurt Fekete Fourteen SCYL teens, along with fourteen young adult Transitions group members, gathered at Almont retreat center over Memorial Day weekend to attend the annual spring retreat. The teens stayed in Heritage Hall, while the young adults resided in the dormitory. The teens attend spiritual sessions while, the young adults primarily spent their
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