West Coast Swedenborgian Retreat
Labor Day Weekend – Aug 29 – Sep 1 “A New Beginning: The Process of Regeneration”
Dana Owens
Lessons from The Birds
In Swedenborg’s theory of correspondences—his so-called “science” for the spiritual valences of nature—birds represent intellectual and spiritual things we can perceive with our minds: truths, in other words, which can take us places.
To Care for Our Mother
Like all our mothers, the Earth has rights and obligations we should respect if we are to “honor our father and our mother,” as one of the biblical Ten Commandments instructs us to do.
What is a sanctuary?
Since 1895, through catastrophic earthquakes and world wars, periods of civil and social unrest, and the holocaust of the AIDS crisis, our church has stood as a special sanctuary, offering refuge and reflection for San Franciscans in times of need.
The Power of a King
It is such a sad irony that people created a powerful position in order to manage the nation effectively, but then the people who held such positions became drunk with power.