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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 …

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Sermon: God Said. Obedience in the Face of Fear by Rev. Todd Beiswenger

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

Lately, I’ve been reading through the book of Genesis and have gone through the stories where Abraham has been called by the Lord, the birth of Isaac, and then Jacob and Esau. And what really struck me about these stories is just how faithful these patriarchs were to God’s instructions. These men weren’t perfect, but …

The President’s Page

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

As I sit down to write my regular article for The New Age, I realise how long it has been since the last one! It’s fairly typical of modern life that it seems to get away from us from time to time. We’re all so busy these days, and the pace of life can sometimes …

Society News

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

ADELAIDE It was nice to see some faces in Church that had been absent for some time. Shirley Hussey was a welcome attendee, widow of our beloved Frank Hussey, now in the spiritual world. Also Regina Jaugietis now well into her nineties came to the service accompanied by her carer, Anna and her three children. …

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REV HOWARD, DEBRA AND LANCE THOMPSON

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

The Thompsons are a family of five, with Howard, Debra and their three children, Chelsea, Ben and Lance. They are from a part of Pennsylvania not that far from Bryn Athyn and the hub centre of the General Church, and this has significance. Howard was raised in the Episcopalian Church, equivalent to the Anglican Church, …

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THE SUBTLETY OF BEING OF USE

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

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 …

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LOGOPRAXIS AND TESTIMONIES TO IT

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

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 …

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Editorial

Site-Manager · June 21, 2018September 26, 2018

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 …

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Three Sermonettes Focusing on New Church Day

Site-Manager · June 21, 2018September 26, 2018

What the disciples preached in the spiritual world on June 19th, 1770 by Rev Alan Cowley Every year on the 19th of June, we celebrate the birth of the New Church. We use this date because of the statement above from True Christian Religion, telling us that on this date, in the year 1770, the …