We are excited to announce our new website feature: Our online database of Our Daily Bread digitalized editions from the

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Rev. Thom Muller Angels exist throughout cultures. In many traditions, including much of Christianity, angels are a kind of special

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Rev. Kit Billings Many Christian leaders and denominations interpret the Bible in a literal way only.  When people do this,

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Rev. Thom Muller Transcendentalism has taken its place in the history of Western thought as an early expression of the

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Click below for the April 2024 Issue of the Messenger, news from the Swedenborgian Church of North America, including the

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Rev. Jim Lawrence Image: The Isenheim Altar Piece by Matthias Grunewald, 1512, currently at Unterlinden Museum in Colmar, France After

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Birrell Walsh, PhD I like donkeys.  When I was a kid we had a donkey named Jackson.  He lived in

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Rev. Thom Muller In this sermon, delivered at the Swedenborgian Society of the East Bay in El Cerrito, CA, Rev.

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by Joy Barnitz Artwork by Marguerite L. Acton. Copyright General Church of the New Jerusalem. Used by permission. In this

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Rev. Kit Billings Johnny Appleseed, born John Chapman, was a man of simplicity, compassion and earnestly deep Swedenborgian Christian faith. 

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