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*Full confession, I use the free version of Claude AI to suggest the titles for videos, edit the transcripts that I include here, and create the social media posts that I share in the Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful Facebook Group . I am conflicted about this AND amazed and appreciative of what AI can do. Well, it finally happened. It’s my Sabbath day, and I am alone in my house. Can you hear the qu...

Rev. Sage Cole is joined by Rev. Catherine Lauber and Rev. David Moffat , fellow New Church ministers, for an honest conversation about the New Jerusalem and how its teachings shape everyday life. They explore it as more than a biblical image: a hopeful vision of inner change, community, and unity amid diversity. The discussion makes room for both conviction and uncertainty—considering how questio...

Friends, I am feeling weary today. I wonder about you. I don’t have a lot of words. I don’t have a lot of energy. I don’t have a lot of knowing. What I seem to have at the moment is a lot of unknowing. Uncertainty. A host of problems circling around, needing to be solved. And a longing for that release, peace, presence, and nurturing, supportive, loving, alive community that could hold this moment...

Big exhale. I wonder if you could use a big exhale at this moment right now. I’m taking a little bit of a risk with this video today, because there’s a lot going on — in my household, in my heart, in my nervous system. My husband and I are struggling with our oldest son and the transition to seventh grade, and the struggle just continues. It ramps up, it quiets down, and the resolution is not yet...

Hi, welcome. I welcome you, I welcome myself, and I welcome this moment. And I invite you to join me for a short, less than 12 minute meditation time of being present in this moment where we find ourselves. You might want to take a deep breath. Even if you’re in the middle of activity or driving your car, you can breathe. You should be breathing. And you might want to take notice of how that breat...

Greetings, friends, and welcome back to my altar. This morning I want to share this picture, which some of you probably recognize — a picture of the great Helen Keller, namesake of the new collaborative I’m in the process of forming and bringing into being. She’s a really important person to me, and to so many — not because she was a saint, perfect in every way, but because she was who she was. Sh...

For my altar space offering today, I want to speak a bit about this painting right here behind my chair. This was painted by a seminary classmate of mine, a longtime friend of mine from my teenage years in the Swedenborgian Church Youth League who’s taken a different direction. This is a beautiful scene of what it looks like from Holy Hill in Berkeley, California, where the Pacific School of Relig...

Continuing this series on what's on my altar and why: this week, a candle handed down to me by a lineage of women leaders. Welcome to my altar space. This morning I’m going to share with you a little bit of the backstory of this angel — the one you see situated at the center of my altar. It’s actually a candle, and it was given to me by the Reverend Renee Machiniak , who received it from the Rever...

Hello friends, happy Sunday. Welcome to Altar Space. This week I am pleased to be sharing this wood carving that I have hanging in my altar area, next to my working space. I think I’ll share this wood carving and then also this painting, because they’re kind of similar, aren’t they? They’re both these beautiful images of embodied women — I seek to be an embodied woman. This wood carving was a gift...

Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church — truths that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the new life so many of us long for. This week’s Note from the New Heaven is about the topic of church. I debated driving over to my husba...

This week: Swedenborg’s Rules of Life For my next installment, I’m taking you to a different part of my room — right next to my bed, by my bedside table. This is Swedenborg’s Rules of Life. I purchased it many years ago on a visit to Bryn Athyn — it was actually a coloring page, and I colored in the designs myself and framed it. I’ve had it in my workspace, in my room, for probably over a decade n...

Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church — truths that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal to the new life so many of us long for. This week: Jesus and the Divine Humanity. I decided to offer my reflections on Jesus and the Divine Hu...

Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the new life that so many of us long for. This week: The Word Well, I’ve found the perfect corner of the world to speak about the Word — the Word o...

Welcome. I’m so pleased this week to share this painting with you — it’s called Lying Down Lady , a mountain range in Anchorage, Alaska. There are a lot of layers of story wrapped up in this piece. I’ve shared some of them in different contexts, so depending on who you are, you might already know part of the story. In my twenties, right after being ordained, I had a powerful lucid dream: a vision...

Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the new life that so many of us long for. This week: Regeneration. All right, let’s get into regeneration. I just took a shower, so it’s a great ti...

Continuing this series on what's on my altar and why: this week, a portrait of the man whose vision shapes my whole ministry. Hey friends, welcome to week two of me sharing different items from my home altar, to share a little bit more about me and how I’m cultivating sacred space in my life. So for the second week, I want to share this image of Emanuel Swedenborg that I keep on my central altar....

Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church — truths that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the new life so many of us long for. This week: heaven and hell. I want to talk about heaven and hell from the most practical perspective...

This week I'm starting something new: each week, I want to share a piece of my altar — the objects, art, and touchstones that surround me in the space where I live, pray, and work. First up: a mandala with roots in my sister's creativity and my grandmother's memory. Greetings, friends. I’ve had an inspiration to share, each week, something from my altar. My bedroom has become, in many ways, my san...

Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the new life that so many of us long for. This week: Divine Providence. It might be that the doctrine of Divine Providence was the first to fully l...

Welcome to Notes from the New Heaven . Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the new life that so many of us long for. In the fall I’ll host larger Be Honest Livestream Faith Conversati...

Welcome to Notes from the New Heaven . Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the new life that so many of us long for. In the fall I’ll host larger Be Honest Livestream Faith Conversati...

Join us this summer for a 12 part series on my experience with doctrinal pillars of the New Church. In the fall I’ll host larger Be Honest Livestream conversations on each topic, so if one resonates in particular let me know and join the conversation! The New Jerusalem encapsulates the hopes for our human species — that we were not created to live in competition and suffering, but that we were cre...

In this heartfelt message, Rev. Sage Cole shares her reflections on the legacy of going one’s own way, the tension between independence and connection, and her exciting vision for the future of spiritual community. As she steps into new territory with the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, she offers insights on authenticity, apostolic heritage, and the power of community in the evolving c...

There is something happening in me. My suspicion is it’s happening in you, and all over this planet right now. My best understanding of what is happening is that a new church is emerging, coming into being. That this vision of the New Jerusalem from Revelation — the one so many of us have been reading and holding for so many generations — is manifesting in a more real way, perhaps, than ever befor...

Today’s podcast is a recording of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative’s third Live Streamed Be Honest Conversation, LGBTQIA Identity: Love, Gender, Marriage & Sexuality featuring Rev. Colin Amato, Tirah Keal & Alex Gayheart . The conversation was cosponsored by the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative and The Rainbow Church . Rev. Colin Amato is the minister of The Rainbow Church of...