Whose reality?

This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s … Read more

How To Build a Better World

And in the spirit he carried me away to a great, high mountain and showed me the holy city Jerusalem coming down out of heaven … Read more

How To Be a Vessel of God

“Which commandment is the first of all?” –Mark 12:28 Dear members and friends of the Swedenborgian Church, Defining the original nature of humanity is a … Read more

The Knowledge of the Lord

They will not hurt or destroy on all my holy mountain; for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the … Read more

Even God Rested

  Six days shall work be done; but the seventh day is a sabbath of complete rest, a holy convocation; you shall do no work: … Read more

Heavenly Rewards

Return to the Lord, your God, for he is gracious and merciful, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love, and relents from punishing. –Joel … Read more

Our Point of Departure

I have calmed and quieted my soul, like a weaned child with its mother. –Psalms 131:2 Dear members and friends of the Swedenborgian Church, “Mother” … Read more

How do you know what’s real?

Jesus said to him, “Unless you see signs and wonders you will not believe.” –John 4:48 Dear members & friends of the Swedenborgian Church, We … Read more

Is civilization bad?

Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bore Enoch; and he built a city, and named it Enoch after his son Enoch. –Genesis 4:17 … Read more

I will come to you.

Dear Friends, The gospel of John might seem the most “opaque” of the four gospels. We heard the opening verses in our worship service on … Read more