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Rev. Sage Cole opens the first featured community spotlight with four Logopraxis practitioners: Annie Drake, Kevin Stevens, Erika Brown and Hal Rosner. Instead of explaining the whole practice, they share what it is like to live it, from daily tasks to how it has changed them. Worth a listen if you are curious about Swedenborgian spiritual practice or wondering whether Logopraxis is for you. Times...

Good morning, friends. Take a breath with me, maybe. Take one of those big exhales that I’m suggesting we all give ourselves. I’ve come into more clarity these last couple of days about my life circumstances, the life in which I seek to be at worship. My life, as I had intended it, has been quite derailed for the last month or two. I’ve spoken about this: my oldest son is not in school, and I had...

In this Be Honest Conversation Rev. Sage is joined by Tirah Keal, founder of Bloom Haven Spiritual Community Center , Tirah’s husband, Rev. Solomon Keal, assistant pastor at the Philadelphia Society of the Lord’s New Church in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania, and Tirah’s father, Rev. Clark Echols . Together they discuss the Divine qualities of love, wisdom, and usefulness, emphasizing how these principle...

Well, here we are on Wednesday, my formal Sabbath day, and I find myself continuing to long for a village. I’m recording the sky I’m looking at instead of myself, because it’s the village that’s available to me right now: the birds, the trees, the wind. There’s even a little squirrel friend behind the bushes. He’s in my community today. Last Wednesday I didn’t record a video, because I had the cha...

Hal Rosner is a retired arborist, living in Philadelphia. He and his wife Jennifer are the parents of two adult children and three grandchildren. Together they maintain home garden that is generous mix of vegetables and native plants. He is currently active with numerous urban forestry initiatives throughout the City. In 2012 Hal attended a Swedenborgian Colloquium where the Reverend David Millar...

Annie Drake is a Logopraxis Life Group facilitator and General Manager of a large ready-mix concrete company in Fort Myers, Florida. Born in Santiago, Chile, she immigrated to the United States as a child and has lived most of her life in South Florida. A mother of two and grandmother of three, she built her working life through real estate, yacht-brokerage operations, web and graphic design work,...

*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...