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By Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence Some might say there’s even a prior question to ask, which is “What is a polity?” And the simple answer is that polity is a governance theory. From its Greek roots (poleis), we get the common word “politics,” and in governance theory, it refers to the specific form of political
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Join the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative (HKSLC) on Tuesday, May 26, at 7:00 PM ET for the third in our series of Be Honest Conversations. LGBTQIA+ Identity: Love, Gender, Marriage & Sexuality, with featured speakers Rev. Colin Amato, Tirah Keal, and Alex Gayheart. This event is co-sponsored by The Rainbow Church of The New
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By Brittany Price The May issue of the Messenger is filled with details about the 202nd Convention in Boston. Boston, Massachusetts, will always remind me of my sister, who passed away a few years ago. She used to work at the Paul Revere House and loved U.S. colonial history, living museums, and pretty much everything
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By Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence Swedenborg declared a New Age was at hand—one connected to a new communication system between the natural and spiritual worlds. Communicating about the novel opening of the spiritual realm was aided by the innovative publishing technology called the Gutenberg printing press. Mass and fast communication had become widespread, and Swedenborg
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The Social Justice Committee of the Swedenborgian Church of North America is excited to announce the second event in it’s 2026 Speaker Series on social justice issues: Queer Ecology: Exploring LGBTQ+ Identities And Environmental Advocacy led by Parker McMullen Bushman on Wednesday May 6, 2026, 7–8:30 PM ET on Zoom. Parker McMullen Bushman of Ecoinclusive
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By Rev. Susannah Currie In the October 27, 2025, issue of the New Yorker magazine, in Adam Kirsch’s article about the book, “Kant, A Revolution in Thinking,” (Harvard), by Marcus Willaschek, translated by Peter Lewis, the first four paragraphs are devoted to outlining Emanuel Swedenborg’s life and writing. Swedenborg and Kant were contemporaries in the
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By Rev. Dr. Jim Lawrence It is good to routinely make a pilgrimage to sacred beginnings, and a case can be made that our shrine city is Boston. That is where the Swedenborgian movement originally congealed in a fulsome way in America, and it still boasts more Swedenborgian churches in the greater Boston area than
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