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Written by Jane Siebert Dear Friends,As we head into this new year of 2022 together, I feel the need for more hope. We are trying to plan an in-person convention for summer of 2022, after two virtual conventions, wondering where we will be in six months. Right now, churches are opening their doors for services
Letter from the President: Thank You, Jane Goodall Read More »
Written by Junchol Lee Translating Swedenborg’s True Christian Religion into Korean has been a personal, but important, journey for me—twenty-seven years in the making. Though I didn’t set pen to proverbial paper until 2019, the project actually began in 1994 when I took my very first Latin class at Bryn Athyn College. At the time,
Accepting the Call: Translating True Christian Religion for Korean Swedenborgians Read More »
Written by Karen Conger, Recording Secretary The General Council met for its fall session via Zoom on Friday, November 5 and Saturday, November 6. We had hoped to be able to meet in person but given the effects of the continuing pandemic, that plan was reluctantly scrapped.Reports were received from the officers and all the
Report of the General Council Fall 2021 Meeting Read More »
Written by BJ Neuenfeldt and Ivy Little What an odd name! Very hard to store your typical teen… so how did this name evolve? Detroit Storage EvolutionIn the early 70s, the Church of the Holy City in Detroit decided to sell their church building. The intent was to purchase a new location with the proceeds
Written by Carla Friedrich The New Church of the Southwest Desert (NCSWD) often refers to itself as “the little church that could.” NCSWD has faced many challenges over the years, perhaps not so different than other churches that: began without a minister, had dwindling congregations through attrition, single-digit plate offerings for weeks on end, untimely
The Little Church That Could Read More »
Merry Christmas Eve and Warm Holiday Greetings! Please enjoy this special Holiday digital issue of the Messenger.We hope you have a wonderful Christmas full of love and light.
Holiday Greetings from the Messenger! Read More »
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.
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Written by Amanda Adams Riley I purchased my first clerical collar for one reason, and one reason only, to wear it when I went to lobby. Presbyterians don’t often wear clerical collars, just black Geneva gowns, and only during worship, if then. Growing up in the Presbyterian Church, there was never a question in my
“What Does the Lord Require of You?” From the Social Justice Committee Read More »
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
Teens Find Their Foundations at Cedar Hill Retreat Center Read More »
