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February 2017

February 13, 2017

Eternal Love in Heavenly Bodies

Why I intend to keep hugging and kissing my wife in heaven – even if...

February 10, 2017

A Heavy Cross or an Easy Yoke?

Is the Christian life supposed to be easy or supposed to be hard? We can...

February 07, 2017

A New (To Me) Swedenborgian Blog

Lee and Annette Woofenden offer keen insight and pastoral wisdom on their aptly named "Spiritual...

February 06, 2017

When Grievers Say the Things You’re Not Supposed To Say to Them

There are a number of things you shouldn't say to a grieving person. But what...

January 2017

January 30, 2017

The Extraterrestrial Problem

Swedenborgians tend to avoid discussing one of the most engaging, easy-to-read works in the New...

January 26, 2017

The End of the World As We Know It? The New Church Hope for the Future

The New Church believes that the Last Judgment and the "end of the age" have...

July 2016

July 11, 2016

What’s Wrong with a Tree of Knowledge?

Swedenborgians celebrate the compatibility of science and faith, of reason and religion. But there's a...

May 2016

May 11, 2016

Learning from Children

How do little children learn in heaven? The answer might open our eyes to an...

March 2016

March 25, 2016

Why Did Jesus Have to Die? His Own Answer

Why did Jesus have to die? He gave a clear answer, but it's one that...

September 2015

September 11, 2015

Two Snarky Comics and a Sermonette on Science

Science is awesome. But even people who should know better have a tendency to conflate...

June 2015

June 10, 2015

Cut from the Sermon: What Jesus Said About His Coming

This past Sunday, I preached on the Second Coming of the Lord - asking "what...

May 2015

May 20, 2015

Cut from the Sermon: Feeling Guilty about Being Serene

On Sunday I preached about life going on after death - both for the person...

May 04, 2015

Idolatry: Staring at Your Own Finger

A month or so ago I was trying to put Samuel (one and a half)...

April 2015

April 25, 2015

The World As It Is, or As It Ought to Be?

Anne and I have identified a fundamental difference in the way we look at the...

April 10, 2015

Abandon Hope: Dante, Swedenborg, and the Eternity of Hell

I’m looking forward to reading Rod Dreher’s upcoming book How Dante Can Save Your Life, about...

March 2015

March 30, 2015

Why Satisfaction Theory Is So Satisfying (Even Though It’s Wrong)

On his "Glory to God for All Things" blog last week, Orthodox priest Fr. Stephen...

November 2014

November 13, 2014

Cut from the Sermon: Indiana Jones and the Leap of Faith

This past Sunday, I preached on doubt. More specifically, I preached on ways to accept and walk...

October 2014

October 22, 2014

Cut from the Sermon: Better than Everyone Else

This week I preached on the final chapter of the Book of Amos. From the...

October 17, 2014

Cut from the Sermon: The Grief of Caring

As I mentioned in my last post, I'm starting a series called "Cut from the...

May 2014

May 12, 2014

Doing the Truth, Coming to the Light

I have a new post up over at New Church Perspective on how to act...

April 2014

April 08, 2014

An Even Better Description of Post-Modernism (from 1768, again)

My last post quoted a long conversation in the afterlife among several "learned" people from the...

April 07, 2014

A (Literally) Visionary Critique of Postmodernism – from 1768

The idea that we can never come to any firm conclusions on whether or not...

March 2014

March 18, 2014

Peace, or a Sword?

Yesterday we reached the conclusion of our sermon series on the Days of Creation. We...

March 10, 2014

Becoming Human

Over the past six weeks here at our church in Dawson Creek we've been following...

February 2014

February 26, 2014

Days of Creation as Stages of Regeneration

I see that my last post was on November 5th. As it happens, our son...

November 2013

November 05, 2013

Our Life After Death

This blog post is a reflection on the book Our Life After Death, recently published...

October 2013

October 07, 2013

Begin a New Life: The Four Steps

I haven't been posting many updates as the congregation here in Dawson Creek works through...

October 03, 2013

Anger or Zeal?

In my recent post on the “wrath of God” I suggested that almost every time...

October 01, 2013

The Wrath of God

In New Church theology, we hold to the idea that God is not wrathful or...

October 01, 2013

Searching Swedenborg

As you might have noticed if you've followed links to passages from Swedenborg's theological works...