The New Age – Page 18 – The Online Journal For The New Church in Australia and New Zealand

The “NEW” New Church in Australia Website

Site-Manager · November 24, 2014December 17, 2014

As a result of the unfortunate demise of the New Church in Australia’s website, the Board of the NCIA recently considered how best to create a new website. Their considerations included where the content would come from, how they could ensure the new site was easy to maintain, was user friendly, modern and useful for …

President’s Report

Site-Manager · November 24, 2014December 17, 2014

On a Sydney radio station 92.1 FM, dedicated to serve Sydney’s Islamic community, I heard an outstanding presentation on the injunction in the Qoran “Surely there are signs for the faithful.” The young man was giving a hadith, a commentary or exposition of the meaning of the short text, to a live audience. He looked …

Society News

Site-Manager · November 24, 2014December 17, 2014

Auckland Society The Auckland Society has had a quiet winter this year. In June we celebrated New Church Day on the Sunday before the 19th with a worship service followed by a shared lunch. Children were presented with books from the church thanks to Jenny Keal and the Swedenborg Centre for Spiritual Growth. Also in …

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Why I Believe in God

Site-Manager · November 24, 2014December 17, 2014

Are we and everything else that exists, here by accident or by design? Is there a Super Being or God behind everything that exists maintaining their existence? How we answer this question, and each of us has to answer this question one way or another over the course of our lives, determines how we live …

Some Recent and Different Swedenborg Books

Site-Manager · November 24, 2014December 17, 2014

These are four recent titles from the Swedenborg Foundation who seem to be on to a good thing with their books in the last two or three years. Three of these productions – Our Life After Death, The Lives of Angels and Regeneration are basically extracts from Swedenborg’s Writings, but they are thematic, with simple …

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Two Movies with Spiritual Content

Site-Manager · November 24, 2014December 17, 2014

The BOX office’s obsession with teen-centric dystopian (the opposite of utopian) futuristic tales reasserts itself this week thanks to the release of two new films the The Giver and Maze Runner. It all began with The Hunger Games now waiting on its 3rd and 4th movie sequels and Divergent (so far only the first of three books …

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Our Own Inner Family

Site-Manager · November 24, 2014December 17, 2014

One of the great and regular foundations of human life is the family. It’s definite that you have had a father and a mother, even though you may not have known one or other or both of them for some reason. You also had four grandparents. You might have a brother or several of them, …

From the Board of the New Church in Australia

Site-Manager · November 24, 2014December 17, 2014

The Board recently held a face to face meeting in Sydney over two days. We welcomed Carolyn Heldon, a relatively new Director, to her first ‘there with us’ meeting. The President’s Report included the Board’s wish to strengthen contact and relationships with societies, the leadership of the church, the lines of communication and responsibilities between …

Putting Swedenborg into Rhyming Verse*

Site-Manager · November 24, 2014December 17, 2014

There is already a book which arranges Swedenborg passages into free verse, by Leon C. Le Van, published by the Swedenborg Foundation in 1987. It works rather well, and surprisingly mostly keeps to the text. The Scottish metrical Psalter of 1635 was a rhyming setting of all the Psalms in order for them to be …

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A Highlight on the work of David Booth

Site-Manager · July 7, 2014November 24, 2014

David Booth is a member of the Perth New Church and for several years in the 1980s was the Secretary of the national New Church in Australia. The Western Australia Journal of Medicine recently published an interview with him from which we make a number of extracts, including the substantial reference to his connection and …