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By Jim Lawrence Regularly meditating upon a classic text, prayer, or hymn enacts a time-honored practice used in many faiths that I have enjoyed for many years on dog walks. Last year I became curious about the spiritual sense of the 23rd Psalm and so ventured to see what Swedenborg wrote about its inner meaning […]
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By Jim Lawrence When Wilson Van Dusen’s Uses: A Way of Personal and Spiritual Growth was released in 1981, it rapidly soared as a runaway favorite in all quarters of Swedenborgiana. Without doubt, Uses is the most beloved short work in Swedenborgian spirituality of the last half-century. The explanation of how Van Dusen’s essay lifted
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Editor’s Corner In the year of forty-four—mid-life (am I really mid-life?) and it is bringing up emotions. My whole childhood, and early adult life, I was convinced that I would be the one going early… and I could avoid dealing with all the grief. Here I am, mid-forties. Still here. Now dealing with griefs that
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A Message from the President Swedenborg says the correspondence of summer signifies the height of formation. It is when nature is in full bloom and maturity, and so spiritually speaking summer means the height of charity and happiness, and it even means the fullness of the Church (see Secrets of Heaven §935 and Divine Love
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There are several new things happening this year as we prepare for the 200th Convention, and I wanted to take this opportunity to explain one of the biggest changes we have, which is the accommodations. Please note, that the following information is for regular Convention attendees, and may not apply for Ministers, Licensed Pastors, and
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Four-Part Webinar for the Month of May Tuesdays in May: 7, 14, 21, and 285:00 – 6:30 PM PT / 8:00 – 9:30 PM ET In this four-part free webinar offered by the Center for Swedenborgian Studies (CSS), we explore how Genesis and other sacred creation stories can inform contemporary environmental ethics. The Swedenborgian tradition
A few months ago, Rev. Ken Turley agreed to talk with me about the intersection between music and ministry in his career for publication in the Messenger. I have followed his passion for how spiritual experience can be enriched through music ever since we shared an apartment as seminarians in the early Eighties. Not long
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200th Convention at the Kellogg Conference Center in East Lansing, Michigan Friday, June 28 – Tuesday, July 2, 2024Registration will be open from April 15 – May 15 on swedenborg.org Friends, and colleagues of the Swedenborgian Church, we are eagerly preparing for a historic 200th annual convention at Michigan State University that will be robustly
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A Message from the President Most have heard about the dramatic closure of Wayfarers Chapel due to massive landslides and structural damage to the famous “glass church.” Despite geologic stability for three quarters of a century, two years of atmospheric rain waves compounded by water flow and drainage complications associated with local utilities have created
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