“Heavenly intelligence is a deeper intelligence arising from a love of what is true-not for the sake of any praise in the world or any praise in heaven, but simply for the sake of the truth itself, because it is profoundly moving and delightful. People who are moved and delighted by the truth itself are …
ODBLOG: “The Truth Shall Make You Free” -Rev. Renee Machiniak Read More »
In this essay, Rev. Hannah R. Hill discusses the subtle and not-so-subtle influences of the writings of Emanuel Swedenborg on the ideas and works of the great psychologist William James, author of The Varieties of Religious Experience. Click below for a PDF version: The Psychologist and the Mystic – Rev. Hannah Reynolds Rev. Hannah R. …
“The Psychologist And The Mystic” -Rev. Hannah Hill Read More »
In this Easter sermon, Rev. Thom Muller explores Swedenborg’s esoteric interpretation of the Easter narrative, and how it relates to our own inner life. Click below for a PDF version of Rev. Muller’s Sermon: Rev. Thom Muller is pastor of Hillside, an Urban Sanctuary, in El Cerrito, California, as well as junior editor of …
“Resurrection Within: The Invitation Of Easter” -Rev. Thom Muller Read More »
“Holy Humor Sundays” are an opportunity for ongoing celebrations of the greatest miracle in human history — Jesus’ resurrection — and they also give each of us an opportunity to celebrate, and give thanks for, our own smaller resurrections in this world and this life. From time to time in our earthly lives, many of …
“Holy Humor And Inner Resurrection” -Rev. Kit Billings Read More »
In this Sermon, delivered at the Philadelphia Society of the Lord’s New Church, Rev. Hugh Odhner engages a theme that has occupied Swedenborgian theologians throughout the centuries: The question of the “Eternity of the Hells”. In Swedenborg’s cosmology, are hellish states static and eternal, or does the process of regeneration continue to draw us towards …
“Hell Is Not Eternal – Unless We Want It To Be” – Rev. Hugh Odhner Read More »
Genesis 28:10-22 – Jacob’s Dream at Bethel Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Harran. When he reached a certain place, he stopped for the night because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones there, he put it under his head and lay down to sleep. He had a dream in which he …
Putting Conditions on God – A sermon by Rev. David Fekete Read More »
