Messenger Articles

Written by Jane Siebert One of the joys of being president is to visit churches. Twenty months of pandemic restrictions have curtailed my visits. I was delighted in late September to make the ten-hour drive to Urbana, Ohio, to offer the consecration and installation of Robbin Ferriman as licensed pastor in the Urbana New Church. […]

Written by Kurt Fekete Ten teenagers from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Maine, along with one virtual teen from Quebec, Canada, attended the Swedenborgian Church Youth League (SCYL) fall retreat at Cedar Hill Retreat Center in South Duxbury, Massachusetts. This was our first in-person SCYL retreat since December 2019. Seven of the teens

Thanks to Rev. Emily Jane Lemole and her husband, Dr. Gerald Lemole, the stained-glass window series “Angels Representing the Seven Churches” designed and created in early twentieth century by Louis Comfort Tiffany, will have a new home in the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada. The Tiffany Windows were put up to auction by

Written by Leone Dyer All churches have their core members. And like most Swedenborgian churches, their core members are the ones who do everything to keep the church running. When the time comes around for the largest fundraiser, the core members fall into place doing what they have always done to get the task completed.

Written by John Titus Yesterday, Bev and I sat through a four-hour interview with a local TV news journalist. He was doing a story on local people who had been directly impacted by the tragedy of 9/11. He found my book online and wanted to talk with us about our grief journey and the peace