Online Community: Spiritual Sunshine

A Swedenborgian Community Online is an affirming, interfaith community grounded in an open, mystical Christianity. Spiritual Sunshine is an online community of the Swedenborgian Church of North America focused on developing deeper spiritual connections and uplifting one another. Spiritual Sunshine offers small groups, online conversations, and more.

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Latest Updates from Spiritual Sunshine

  • The Divinity of Our Oneness
    It’s surprising to see how many times it says that people in Jesus’ community sought to “unalive” him (the new, TikTok-friendly term for murder). This was typically because Christ would speak about his perceived oneness […]
  • The Good Shepherd Raises Us Up
    We all can feel lost at times. Not knowing what’s true or what to do. Even when things are going relatively well in our lives, we can feel despair and a sense of failure, inadequacy. […]
  • Raise Up the Snake
    So, Jesus says that we must “lift up the Son of Man” and then we will know that Christ is he, serving the Lord. Cryptic, wouldn’t you say? How do we lift up the Son […]
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John 12:37-43 Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still would not believe in him. This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the prophet: “Lord, who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?” For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere: “He has blinded their eyes and hardened their hearts, so they can neither see with their eyes, nor understand with their hearts, nor turn—and I would heal them.” Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him. Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for fear they would be put out of the synagogue; for they loved human praise more than praise from God. Check out our website: https://swedenborgiancommunity.org Give to Spiritual Sunshine: https://swedenborgiancommunity.org/my-gift Give to our home church, Church of the Good Shepherd: give@shepherdsway.ca
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Meet Rev. Cory Coberforward

Rev. Cory Coberforward hopes to uplift others wherever they are, as he (and most other Swedenborgians) believe that all faith journeys are paths to the heavenly city. He believes that love, rationality, kindness, and wisdom are aspects of Divinity with each of us that we can use to further uplift the Heaven within and without. Rev. Cory is also the minister of The Church of the Good Shepherd in Kitchener, ON.