News & Announcements
By Nora Barnaby, SCYL Clear Blue Sky Editor This Winter Retreat we got to explore the topic of Heaven and Hell: Here and Now. I personally thought this was very cool and sparked a lot of interesting discussions between the adults and teens. We had a packed house with nineteen teens! Everyone had a lot […]
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The Year of the Word By Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence The Swedish seer in his mature theosophy claims that before the current “Word” came to be there was an earlier “Word” in the world that maintained the crucial nexus between heaven and earth. Abiding among peoples in “Greater Tartary,” a region in his time understood
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By Rev. Kevin Baxter With joy, the Church on the Hill (Boston Society of the New Jerusalem) is pleased to announce that on November 24, 2024, the Boston Society of the New Jerusalem rejoined the Massachusetts New Church Union, and with it the General Convention of the New Jerusalem! The church left the denomination twenty
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By Ronnie Viges The Transitions (young adults ages 18–30) group met once again in November for the second annual Friendsgiving and third camp winterizing using the wisdom passed down from Tom Neuenfeldt. This gathering brought together twelve young adults and seven facility supervisors (and two little helpers!) to put camp to rest for the winter,
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By Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence Intense emotions concerning public affairs in the past few months have soared to an extent I’ve rarely seen in four decades of ministry. Swedenborg does have something to say to us in our current moment. A message can be heard from Swedenborg in his basis as a “realist” because from
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By Karen Conger The General Council of the Swedenborgian Church of North America met in a hybrid format Friday and Saturday, November 15 and 16, 2024, at the Sonesta Select hotel in Torrance, California. The business undertaken included hearing reports from the officers and others, such as the Chair of the Council of Ministers. Rev.
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By Kurt Fekete The annual Swedenborgian Church Youth League (SCYL) Fall Retreat took place in October 2024 at the beautiful Cedar Hill Retreat Center in Duxbury, Massachusetts. This year’s theme, “Buried Treasure, Hidden Gems, and Heavenly Secrets,” set the stage for a weekend of spiritual exploration and personal growth. Twelve ecstatic, borderline hysterical, teens burst
Ethical and Spiritual Considerations (ESG) in Investment Decisions for the Swedenborgian Church of North America (SCNA) By Paul Martin and Holly Gottschalk What is ESG? ESG refers to a wide variety of criteria that is used by socially responsible investors to look at environmental, social, and governance practices in the companies in which they invest.
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By Sage Cole The Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative (HKSLC) is getting ready to incorporate as a unique constituent body of the Swedenborgian Church of North America. The seed planted in 2018 at the Cambridge Swedenborg Chapel has sprouted! What a journey to get to this moment, and what a journey ahead. Originally conceived as
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