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Study Swedenborg’s Writings: The New Christian Bible Study Website

Site-Manager · March 25, 2020May 24, 2020

by Michael Chester Because so many new features have been added to enhance this website it is worthwhile to provide a follow-up to Julian Duckworth’s excellent article on The New Christian Bible Study Website that appeared in the Spring 2019 New Age. Click to go to:newchristianbiblestudy.org This website has been set up by the enterprising …

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Gathering Leaves Retreat 2020

Site-Manager · March 25, 2020March 25, 2020

| 28 – 31 August, 2020 Gathering Leaves, the international retreat for Swedenborgian/New Church women, will take place at the Purley Chase Centre, in Warwickshire, England. The theme for the event is “Fruits of the Spirit.” There will be a variety of activities and time for connecting. A generous benefactor has offered to pay the …

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Editorial – New Church: Old Promise, New Promise

Site-Manager · June 26, 2019March 25, 2020

Note: Published with permission from the editor of The New Church in Victoria Newsletter In preparation for New Church Day, we often focus on the promises in Revelation and Swedenborg’s writings about the holy city, the New Jerusalem, and the New Church. These promises are actually old promises as well. In the Hebrew Scriptures, …

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“A Common Deception”

Site-Manager · June 26, 2019March 25, 2020

The 27th chapter of Genesis contains the account of Jacob conspiring with his mother, Rebekah, to deceive his father Isaac and stealing the blessing intended for Esau. What a remarkable story to find in the Word of the Lord. How are we to understand it? Jacob, the future patriarch of the twelve tribes of Israel, …

President’s Page

Site-Manager · June 26, 2019March 25, 2020

The older I get, the less comfortable I feel with the change that’s happening in the world. But lately I’m beginning to wonder, is that because the world is changing, or because I’m getting older? I don’t think I’ve reached a clear conclusion just yet. One of the curious things about New Church teaching is …

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HEAVEN IN A HOSPITAL

Site-Manager · June 26, 2019March 25, 2020

As some of you know I have recently been in hospital several times which brings its worries but also its privileges of seeing the dedication and humanity of so many people brought together to do so much good to others in need, often in pain. When you are in it and among it you can’t …

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Notes from the Swedenborg Centre

Site-Manager · June 26, 2019March 25, 2020

What amazes me is that Swedenborg seems hardly to ever have swayed from his belief in God, even in his long scientific period of life. After a career of delving into numerous scientific and practical fields, he used philosophical reason to extrapolate on the insights he gained from his scientific enquiries. It was not unusual …

Society Reports

Site-Manager · June 26, 2019

ADELAIDE CHRISTIAN NEW CHURCH REPORT The SA History month has been very worthwhile, even though at times perhaps a little slow. Around the Adelaide CBD there have been about 200 functions going on. For us, the most interesting, has been a Granddaughter of Rev. J T Deacon, Dalece, who was most delighted to see where …

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Save the Date: Gathering Leaves 2020

Site-Manager · June 26, 2019March 25, 2020

Gathering Leaves 2020, an international event for Swedenborgian/ New Church women, will be held at the Purley Chase Centre in the UK, Friday 28th – Monday 31st August 2020. The event will comprise divine worship in all its forms, talks, discussion groups, sister circles, circle dancing, country trail walking, meditation, yoga, art and craft and …

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Editorial

Site-Manager · September 26, 2018June 26, 2019

As I was putting this issue together, I noticed that it was numbered Vol. 135 no. 2. That means The New Age has been produced for 135 years and the first issue rolled off the press or the quill pen in 1883… before many of our grandparents were even born. In 1883 the Krakatoa volcano …