Looking at the Lord’s Prayer, recorded in both the gospels of Matthew and Luke, we took the phrase, “As in heaven, so upon the earth” and drew an important principle: What rules us is what rules within us This service took place
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I came across an interesting topic in Hinduism recently that helped me better understand Swedenborg’s account of spiritual influxes that govern our lives. The topic is the observance of the ‘Gunas’ i.e. the predominant qualities that dominates one’s mind at any given time. As we go about
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The first in our new series, Christians Behaving Badly: How we get religion wrong, and what we need to do about it. What constitutes “true worship”? When is it OK to break religious and ceremonial law? Eli’s sons, Hophni and Phinehas (1
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Today we enjoyed a talk by Rev Ros Taylor in the US about her work with Deborah’s Tree, promoting the work of women in leadership, scholarship and the arts in Swedenborgian religious settings. Go to https://www.deborahstree.org for further information, and search Deborah’s
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Is it true that, “… a perfect and omnipotent God could, should, and would see to it that such problems did not exist in a book which s/he had inspired.” (https://infidels.org/library/modern/donald_morgan/contradictions.html)? And what is the contradiction inherent in adhering to the theory
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Why would you get involved in a group such as a church? There are many reasons: the theology, the style of worship, they’re nice people, to meet like-minded others, social connection, for what you can get out of it, for personal or
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Can you experience and understand paradox? Paradox is defined as, ‘A statement or proposition seemingly self-contradictory or absurd, and yet explicable as expressing a truth.’ (Webster’s Dictionary) Examples include: “Less is more” “The most corrected copies are commonly the least correct” (Francis
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Is religion, like sports psychology, an irrational optimism which seeks to banish the skepticism that is so useful to science? “This chapter is about the psychology of performance. We will dig down into the minds of top sportsmen and explore the relationship
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SwedenborgCommunityVictoria · The Greatest Must Serve The principle that those who wish to be greatest must serve is found in each of the four gospels, but each time it is expressed in different ways and in different contexts. What can we learn
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