The New Age

Welcome to another issue of The New Age, and enjoy having a good read! Maybe even quarantine yourself until you have read every word. Quarantine is the March 2020 word of the month as a considerable number of people are needing to or being told to “self-isolate” for two weeks until they know for certain …

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, …

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 …

Welcome to this Winter 2018 issue of The New Age. I guess most of us keep up with some of the daily news, however, we do that. And truly, right now, we are living in pivotal times. There’s the coming Trump/Kim summit, or by the time you get this, the recent meeting and outcomes from …

Welcome to this Autumn 2018 issue of The New Age. I have watched Andrew Marr’s History of the World (UK Open University Course). The first of eight episodes was fascinating, but one event thrilled me. The Yangtze River in China floods every now and then causing havoc especially in ancient times. One mighty Chinese emperor …

Here we are, coming to the end of the year or, as a more literary person might put it, this year is ultimately drawing to a close. And it’s that word ultimate which is worth a bit of attention, not only at the end of a year. Most people think of ultimate in terms of …

Here is the Spring/September 2017 issue of The New Age. Do enjoy the Spring. Do enjoy the read. I am going to be fairly personal in this editorial. We are due to retire next year around May possibly. With a house which we have lived in for 26 years, there is a lot of sorting …

Here is the latest issue of The New Age, with what we hope you will enjoy reading and gaining from. This journal serves our part in the world of the organised New Church here in Australia and New Zealand. It joins us together in who we are and what we do. It’s national, not parochial, although it …

Here, for your enjoyment, is the Autumn 2017 issue of The New Age. Don’t forget that you can also see and read it – or recommend it to someone else – by going online at www.thenewage.net.au Autumn is often a bit of a relief! We have certainly had a hot summer this year extending well into …

This is the Summer edition of The New Age and as well as some Christmas content, it will have the theme of working outwardly and practically from our church groups in ways that directly help others. This is sometimes called “natural charity”. This theme was suggested by the President, Rev David Moffat, and got some discussion at the …