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New book by former Messenger Editor, Patte Wheat LeVan Humans need connection, and in a digital world, meaningful connections are harder to come by. Accomplished author Patte Wheat LeVan presents a tool for recalibration. If You Know a Song, Sing It is a moving collection of essays first published in the Messenger, the national publication […]
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A Message from the President New inquirers into the Swedenborgian movement often ask what the spiritual practices are. How should I meditate or pray? What kinds of ritual should I build into my lifestyle? What are the dietary guidelines? Throughout the long beginning of the Swedenborgian movement across 150 years or so, the primary spiritual
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Year of Regeneration 2022–2023 Adapted from Theology for Theo-Therapy: A Swedenborgian PerspectiveBy Calvin Turley, Edited By Jim Lawrence Our regeneration is the Omega Point of creation. The goal toward which all creation moves is us. That’s a big statement, but Swedenborg famously claimed, “The Lord’s divine providence has as its end a heaven from the
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Social Justice Committee By Dru Johnson A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another (John 13:34–3). As I shared previously (January/February 2023 issue of the Messenger), taking a
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Written By Jim Lawrence with Roslyn Taylor IntroductionRev. Roslyn Taylor (ordained in 2018) has led a house church ministry for the better part of two decades in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. Most recently she has initiated a non-profit organization called Deborah’s Tree, which in the words of its website, “provides spiritual resources and educational materials in
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Year of Regeneration 2022–2023 Edited excerpt from Inner Light: Swedenborg Explores the Spiritual DimensionBy Brian Kingslake, Edited By Jim Lawrence Repentance means a true conversion, and conversions may be sudden or gradual. It may take a few seconds, perhaps during a sermon, or as a result of some great shock or disaster; or it may
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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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