{"id":824,"date":"2018-09-17T22:13:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T22:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/?p=824"},"modified":"2018-09-17T22:13:49","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T22:13:49","slug":"ex-divina-misericordia-mercy-in-swedenborg-and-padre-pio-rev-thom-muller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/ex-divina-misericordia-mercy-in-swedenborg-and-padre-pio-rev-thom-muller\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Ex Divina Misericordia: Mercy in Swedenborg and Padre Pio&#8221; -Rev. Thom Muller"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-825\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pioswedenborg.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1072\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pioswedenborg.jpg 1072w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pioswedenborg-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pioswedenborg-768x410.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/pioswedenborg-1024x546.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1072px) 100vw, 1072px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This sermon explores the theme of Mercy in Swedenborg, and a more recent controversial Christian mystic, Padre Pio of Pietrelchina. What do these two holy men have to say about the concept of a &#8220;merciful God&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click below for a printable PDF version of Rev. Muller&#8217;s sermon:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Ex-Divina-Misericordia.pdf\">Ex Divina Misericordia<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-457 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/thom_muller_3-e1520505260658.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"88\" height=\"124\" \/>Rev. Thom Muller is pastor\u00a0at\u00a0Hillside, an Urban Sanctuary\/Hillside Swedenborgian Church in El Cerrito, California, as well as\u00a0co-editor of Our Daily Bread. His passions include the intersection of\u00a0religion\u00a0and psychology, interfaith\u00a0spirituality,\u00a0comparative\u00a0Mysticism, and the Western esoteric tradition. He was ordained into the ministry of the Swedenborgian Church of North America in 2016, upon receiving his theological education at Bryn Athyn College of the New Church and the Center for Swedenborgian Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sermon explores the theme of Mercy in Swedenborg, and a more recent controversial Christian mystic, Padre Pio of Pietrelchina. What do these two holy men have to say about the concept of a &#8220;merciful God&#8221;? &nbsp; Click below for a printable PDF version of Rev. Muller&#8217;s sermon: Ex Divina Misericordia &nbsp; Rev. Thom Muller &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/ex-divina-misericordia-mercy-in-swedenborg-and-padre-pio-rev-thom-muller\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Ex Divina Misericordia: Mercy in Swedenborg and Padre Pio&#8221; -Rev. Thom Muller<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":827,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritualquesters.org\/dev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}