The New Age

Rev. Richard Keyworth “For you have formed my inward parts; you have covered me in my mother’s womb. I will praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvellous are your works and that my soul knows very well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in secret, and skilfully …

by Sarah Walker This short reflection is a response to some questions I was asked to consider for a recent college assignment as part of the diploma course I am undertaking with the Australian New Church College. The questions were related to the concept of humanity and in exploring the qualities of someone that is …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Possibly referring to some short articles I had written about ‘uses’, it was remarked on two separate occasions that, as we get older and chronic sickness intervenes, the opportunities to be of use, in the New Church sense, diminishes. Sadly that is undeniably true. But maybe we can be useful in ways that we are …

Logopraxis is a term coined from the Greek words “Logos” and “praxis”, and means to practice the Word. It was developed by Reverend David Millar of the Australian New Church. In its most obvious form it’s a method for approaching the Word. On another level Logopraxis is a framework for building community. The community is …

O the Lord is good to me, and so I thank the Lord for giving me the things I need, the sun, the rain, and the apple-seed. The Lord is good to me. And every seed that grows will grow into a tree. And one day soon there’ll be apples there, for everyone in the …

Unlike many of the other Biblical people with whom Israel had to deal, like the Hittites, Philistines, Egypt, Assyria and Babylon, the Amalekites were never a kingdom nor an empire. They were a tribe who populated the area to the south of Israel and were basically nomadic. Who were they? Amalek, their original tribal chief …

I recently read about an amazing story of the power of the placebo effect. It was recorded in 1957 and demonstrates just how powerful the human mind can be. A patient had advanced cancer of the lymph nodes (lymphoma) and was told that he had no more than a few weeks to live. He couldn’t …