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Written By Nora Barnaby, Clear Blue Sky Editor The theme for our teens’ Winter Retreat was the Five Love Languages. During each of our sessions we learned about how everyone feels and shows love in different ways, and that in order to make someone feel loved you may have to do something different than what […]
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Social Justice Committee By Dru Johnson To be a human being today, a person must be charity embodied (Emanuel Swedenborg, Charity §93). Charity is to be found in the internal person and the sign of it in the external (Emanuel Swedenborg, Charity §178). I had never encountered the phrase “engaged spirituality” until I took my
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A Message from the President A flourishing religion in the West is scientism: the belief that all ultimate answers for meaningful information about life lies in scientific research of physical phenomena. Merriam-Webster defines scientism as “An exaggerated trust in the efficacy of the methods of natural science applied to all areas of investigation (as in
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Written By Kurt Fekete A couple of times each winter season here in Maine, if you’re lucky, you get that perfect modeling snow. Not too wet, not too powdery, but that just right snow that packs easily but isn’t overly soggy. On those days, once the driveway and porches are cleared off, Zsa Zsa and
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The Massachusetts New Church Union is Excited to Welcome You to Bridgewater! Saturday, July 1st – Wednesday, July 5th, 202 This summer’s 199th annual convention will convene in Bridgewater, Massachusetts, at Bridgewater State University. This annual convention is hosted by the churches of the Massachusetts New Church Union: Bridgewater Church of the New Jerusalem, Cambridge
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Written By Jenny M. Caughman There are not many things most people agree on these days, but describing our current political and cultural climate as divisive is perhaps one of them. And perhaps another is that very few people think we are in a good place, that our current system or attitudes are working well.
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Written By Jim Lawrence with David Brown Introduction Rev. Dr. David Brown, Lead Chapel Minister at Wayfarers Chapel, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation at Pacific School of Religion last April with his defense committee of me, Dr. Rebecca Esterson, and Rev. Dr. Jonathan Mitchell. His dissertation, entitled “Kairos and Attention Epistemology: Socioeconomics, Neuroscience, and Spirituality,”
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Written by Kurt Fekete The first thing the girls did was stake out their territory, flip the tables, and build their forts! Thus began the November SPLATz+ (Super-Powered Lovable Almost Teens) retreat at the Boston Church on the Hill (Boston Society of the New Jerusalem). Seven youth, aged ten to fifteen, gathered for the weekend
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Freely Adapted to the Language of the Cosmos Written by Rachel Rivers Translator’s Preface In July of 2021, for the first time since the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic sixteen months previously, I packed up my car with my camping gear and ventured away from my home on the Point Reyes peninsula, driving northeast three
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