Thoughts & reflections of a New Church (Swedenborgian) minister
(E. Kent Rogers, 12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth: A Path of Healing from the Gospels, Swedenborg Foundation Press, 2012, 210 pages.) First off, an apology. I was asked to participate in the Book Club Roundtable discussion of Kent Rogers’s new book, “12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth,” which was a featured selection of the Patheos Book Club from [...]
At some point in college, I got fed up with theological charts and diagrams. Attending religion classes at the Academy of the New Church high school and Bryn Athyn College of the New Church, I saw plenty of them. There were a few reasons I got fed up with them, but mostly it had to [...]
On Monday I received my copy of Tiffany’s Swedenborgian Angels by Mary Lou Bertucci and Joanna Hill, currently featured on the Patheos Book Club. I’ve been reading it in bits and pieces over the last few days. It’s not a long book, but it’s one that invites pausing and reflecting. First and foremost: this is a [...]
There’s a scene in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe that I imagine most Swedenborgians can relate to. It’s where Lucy is trying to convince her siblings that she really did visit Narnia, and they respond with various degrees of derision and condescending disbelief. And of course they go into the wardrobe to try [...]
Crime and Punishment is my favourite novel. And yet somehow I’ve managed to never read any of Dostoevsky’s other novels. So, I’ve started reading Brothers Karamazov, in the 2002 translation by Richard Peaver and Larissa Volokhonsky. I’m not far into it but already I’m starting to love it. Last week as I was preparing my sermon [...]
Howard Means’s new biography of John Chapman (aka Johnny Appleseed) has been garnering some publicity since its publication on April 12, including generally favourable reviews in the Wall Street Journal and the Boston Globe, and an interview with the author on NPR’s “All Things Considered.” The reviews all discuss the book’s focus on John Chapman’s [...]
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