Be Love

Greetings, friends. Happy Sunday. I hope this message finds you well — at least in a place where you are safe and resourced enough to sit and watch a video on Substack or YouTube or wherever you find this. I want to share this morning about a recent awareness that has come into my consciousness, one that is shining a very big light on my experiences of this past year. It’s a personal sharing that...

Greetings, friends. The message I want to bring today — the one I’m sitting with — is that it’s good to appreciate where we’ve been and all of the people and energy that has sustained us thus far. I’m out in one of my favorite little patches of woods near my house, and I’m appreciating the efforts of others that have created these pathways. Right behind me is a little stone bridge that somebody pu...

Ah what a beautiful weekend I am returning from at the Lord’s New Church in Bryn Athyn, PA where I got to speak about Helen, collaborate on a retreat with Deborah’s Tree and many others, and preach on Sunday morning. I got to share a lot about Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful and I received so much and I am tired and grateful. I huge thank you to all the people who showed up to all the things, and if...

Rev. Robert McCluskey holds a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy, with a focus on Greek philosophy, modern idealism, existentialism, and hermeneutics. He is a graduate of the Swedenborg School of Religion, and was ordained into the Swedenborgian Church of North America in 1984. He has pastored churches in Portland, ME and New York City, and served on the denomination’s Social Justice Committee. He also s...

Today’s podcast is a recording of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative’s second Live Streamed Be Honest Conversation, S wedenborgian Anti-Racism Then & Now featuring Sue Ditmire . The conversation was cosponsored by the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative and Swedenborgians In Action Against Racism . Sue Ditmire grew up in Loveland Ohio. In 1972, she found Kemper Road Center (a Swed...

Today’s Be Honest conversation emerged when Be Love Podcast guest the Rev. Edward Kent Rogers reached out to Alex and I after our recent episode Asking to dwell in the question of how to act in the face of injustice and harm. This conversation is raw and real and we hope it will stir many more open conversations about how we may meet the challenges of our time. Summary This conversation explores n...

Circe Moss MacDonald was a guest on the Be Love Podcast in May 2025 and its a joy to have her back this morning for a more topical Be Honest Conversation about Water, and its essential and sacred role in the thriving of life. Eco-Chaplain Circe Moss MacDonald serves as the Spiritual Director and ceremonial guide at the Portland New Church Center for Sacred Arts . Summary Explore the sacred and pra...

Parker McMullen Bushman (She/They) is an innovative leader, speaker, and facilitator dedicated to creating transformative experiences that promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice across industries and for the environment. As the CEO of Ecoinclusive Strategies , founder of the Summit for Action , and dynamic social media persona KWEEN WERK , Parker blends over 25 years of experience in en...

I’m not done wanting to be church. I’m not done believing that I can be a part of loving co-creative spiritual community where together with others I can experience the life of heaven and take part in bringing that heaven into being here on earth. And I must do this and be this, in my own way. Yes, the spiritual life is an invitation to surrender but not to anything, ANYTHING outside of ourselves....

Today’s podcast is a recording of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative’s first LiveStreamed Be Honest Conversation Series: Gender Equity & The New Jerusalem featuring Dr. Page Morahan. The conversation is hosted by Rev. Sage Cole of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative and Rev. Ros Taylor of Deborah’s Tree . Page was also interviewed on the Be Love Podcast in May 2025 Page S. Mor...

Enjoy this first episode of our new Be Honest Conversation Series exploring topics of faith and justice on the journey of becoming a new church. Today we speak with Rev. Rosyln Taylor about her groundbreaking working amplifying women’s voices in the life of the new church through her ministry Deborah’s Tree . Ros was first a guest on the Be Love Podcast in November 2024. She has since been an acti...

Be love. Be here. Be as you are. Knowing that underneath, and in, and through, and at the core of your experience right now is the energy of love. A holy vibration that connects you to everything else. To the source of all that is. The Creator, Redeemer, and Regenerator of this life. The beingness that always was and always will be. Be love. Be this love for yourself. For your body. For your circu...

Alex Gayheart (they/them) is the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative Executive Assistant, a retired after 20+ years School Administrator, a very part-time Barista, the Digital Support person for The Rainbow Church of the New Jerusalem (a ministry of the Swedenborgian Church of North America providing virtual/in-person safe spaces for LGBTQ+ spiritual seekers and allies), a member of the Soci...

Transcript: Hey friends, it’s Sage. I’m here with my dog, Princess on probably the first day that it’s been possible to come to the park since the snow has been melting here in Boston. I felt moved to stop and just record a quick video before we continue, about Day Three of creation. Because we find ourselves, for those of you who have been joining along the creation journey we find ourselves toda...

Hi, how are you today? I’m coming to you from your bookshelf. Do you have a bookshelf in your home? A place where you keep your stories, the tales and reports on life that inspire, uplift, entertain, or improve your life in some way? Books are quite a special human invention. Helen Keller used to call her books her “book friends.” In many ways each one of them is a friend in that it’s the story, t...

Dear friends, I took my time in today’s podcast to share more about the invitation to Honesty, in my trinity Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful. Grounded in Love, our celebration of Helen Keller’s Spiritual Birthday this week marks the beginning of a new season of Be Honest Conversations that I am so excited to begin wading into. Some are on the calendar and some are still in formation, but it’s time f...

Ethan served various places across the US and spent five years serving a congregation in London England. He’s currently a pastor of Sunrise Chapel in Tucson, Arizona. Ethan’s happily married for almost 25 years and has five amazing children. Keywords love, spirituality, disability, community, personal growth, mental health, unity, faith, resilience, journey Summary In this heartfelt conversation,...

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Bob Kwesi Hagan is the residential pastor for the New Church Convention in Ghana, Africa. He is a seminary graduate at the GTU in Berkeley. Bob has a mission to make the Hon. Swedenborg's name a household name in Ghana. He is also an artist using music as a model of regeneration and restoration of our human condition, which is his ultimate agenda. Keywords love, spirituality, new church, Christian...

Rev. Alison Longstaff Moore was raised in the conservative branch of Swedenborgianism and remained active in it until her mid forties when she resigned from that branch and joined the Swedenborgian Church of North America. Having felt the call to ministry when she was eight, Alison was now free to train as a minister. Alison now serves as pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Kitchener Onta...

This week the tables are turned as long time friend and Executive Assistant of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative Alex Gayheart interviews me for a change. Tune in to hear a bit more of my story and the journey of love that brought all this work I’m currently doing into being. keywords love, ministry, connection, honesty, community, spiritual growth, pandemic, Swedenborg, Helen Keller,...

Alan Cowley is a pastor, artist, musician, and labyrinth designer based in Horsham, Pennsylvania. He has served as pastor of Michael Church (London, UK), The New Church at Boynton Beach (Boynton Beach, Florida), and as pastor and school director at Oak Arbor Church and Montessori School(Rochester, MI). He is currently leading worship music at The Lord’s New Church , teaching middle school religion...

A Swedenborgian since 1984 when she first joined the San Francisco Swedenborgian Church under the ministership of Rev. Edwin Capon, Tassy Farwell serves as licensed pastor at Hillside, an Urban Sanctuary in El Cerrito, CA . Following a transformative visit to Taiwan in May 2025 Tassy received a call to ordained ministry and will start her studies at the Graduate Theological Union in February 2026....

Rev. Thom Muller is pastor at the Swedenborgian Society of the East Bay at Hillside , an Urban Sanctuary, in El Cerrito, CA, senior editor of Our Daily Bread and a street chaplain with the San Francisco Night Ministry . His passions include the intersection of spirituality and psychology, interfaith theology, and the Western esoteric tradition. Keywords love, ministry, Swedenborgianism, spirituali...

Rev. George Magero is the pastor of New Church Railways Kisii Kenya, an independent New Church congregation. He co-leads a Global New Church Prayer Circle with Rev. Sage as a part of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative. Summary In this heartfelt conversation, Sage and George discuss their spiritual journey. They reflect on the challenges and triumphs of building a church without financia...