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Pernilla Lillarose is a certified Hakomi practitioner with over 25 years of experience. As a Self-Love Mentor and Spiritual Guide, she empowers women to embrace their authentic selves, cultivate confidence, and connect with and trust their inner divine wisdom. She is the author of Imagine Being Kind To YourSelf and many other ebooks and currently maintains an active YouTube channel focused on Self...

Do you know that you can, we can, begin again anytime. That actually the whole energy of life is inviting us every moment to start anew. And at this middle place before the new year starts this week there’s a real opportunity, I know I’m feeling this really strong opportunity, to begin again. In many ways, it feels like this opportunity was launched back in 2020 during the pandemic. And I love tha...

Rachel Sagerman is a somatic guide, teacher, and longtime student of the body as a source of truth. Her work weaves together embodiment, feminine wisdom, and lived devotion — not as concepts, but as practices forged through real life. Her path into Love was forged through resilience, motherhood, and deep listening — moving from survival into presence. She is a somatic guide who teaches Love as som...

Paul Deming is the Licensed Pastor of the Garden Chapel Sanctuary in St. Louis, Missouri, lead guitarist with the Ralph Butler Band and loves to combine his love for music with his love for worship and spiritual community. Keywords New Jerusalem, community of love, Garden Chapel, studio church, spiritual curiosity, dialogue with despair, faith journey, welcoming space, belonging, Swedenborgianism...

Our Creation journey kicks off next Sunday, December 21st at 7:00 pm Eastern with a virtual liturgy to be released on our Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative YouTube Channe l. We’d love to have you join us for this premiere. Unfortunately our website has crashed at the very same moment that our registration link for the series went live so please for now the best way to signify your desire t...

Rev. Dr. Amanda Riley is lead pastor of the Garden Church and active in the San Pedro Community including serving on the Harbor Connects Board. A proud Presbyterian, Rev. Amanda is also serving as Parish Associate at St. Peter’s By the Sea Presbyterian Church , is active in the Presbytery of the Pacific , and is co-author of the book The Girlfriends’ Clergy Companion . Amanda is mother to two acti...

Danielle Lynn is a transformational guide known as the True Self Alchemist, helping people reconnect with their core truth and live from authentic inner alignment. She blends grounded psychology, esoteric insight, and practical embodiment to support individuals in creating a life led by clarity, coherence, and flow. Through her programs and teachings, including the Self Alchemy Lab and Awakened Al...

Rev. Dr. David Brown has been serving the spiritual wayfarer since joining the staff at Wayfarers Chapel in August of 2006. Rev. Brown also serves part time at our sister ministry of The Garden Church in San Pedro alongside Rev. Dr. Amanda Adams Riley and Licensed Pastor Connie McCosker. Keywords love, ministry, community, youth, service projects, spirituality, Wayfarers Chapel, food justice, grie...

David was ordained in 1997, and has 27 years continuous experience in teaching spiritual principles to all ages, serving for 14 years of that time in an unpaid and self-funded capacity. He is inspired by the Bible and the spiritual writings of Emanuel Swedenborg, as well as broader interests in psychology, science, and other religions and spiritual philosophies. He has served congregations in Birm...

Rebecca Esterson is Dean of the Center for Swedenborgian Studies at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. She is currently co-authoring a religious biography of Helen Keller for Eerdmans Publishing. keywords midlife, menopause, chaos, self-care, Helen Keller, spiritual growth, community, women empowerment, therapy, personal development, inner peace summary In this conversation, Sage and...

Shall we share a cup of coffee together? Cheers. (About 3 minutes of silence.) I’m starting to get that it’s not my job to procure the experiences and the environment that I need to be loved. That it’s not my job to build the church. That it’s not my job to say exactly the right thing at the right time in the right way. But that my job, my only job, my central primary job, as a human being on this...

Tirah Echols Keal is a 5th generation Swedenborgian minister’s kid. She graduated from Bryn Athyn College with a bachelor’s degree in religion. She is on track to graduate from seminary with her MDiv in May 2027. Tirah has been married to Solomon Keal (who was ordained as a minster for the General Church in 2012) since 2001, and is the proud mom of five wonderful humans. Tirah has a passion for bu...

TREVOR “The Games Man” is a certified New Games Leader, Cooperative Play Specialist, and Professional Stiltwalker with more than 5 decades of experience leading games that everyone wins. He is a full-time entertainer who has done more than 7,900 professional appearances is 17 states and provinces bringing joy and happiness to more than 4.4 million people. As the 4th of 8 children of a Swedenborgia...

Colin is a life long Solano County resident, having been born in Berkeley and raised in Benicia. Colin graduated from high school in 2007 and attended college at San Francisco State University where he earned his BA in psychology. He continued his education by earning a Master’s degree in counseling, from San Francisco State University, and a Masters in Theological Studies from the Graduate Theolo...

This week’s offering is a video I recorded after feeling inspired to delve in a bit more deeply after Thursday’s episode of The Holy City Is For Everyone . I hope you might enjoy these reflections on the two witnesses in Revelation Chapter 11 and the possibility of moving beyond polarity. Let me know what you think! - Sage Summary In this video Rev. Sage delves into Revelation chapter 11, explorin...

Rev. Sarah Walker spent her 20’s and 30’s longing for a deeper connection to God but not knowing how to find it. She knew it was possible – she’d been given strong and deep impressions of it in her childhood having come from six generations of New Church traditions. But it wasn’t until an encounter with what seemed like a very simple statement that things began to open up for her … The Lord is the...

Rev. Solomon Keal is an assistant pastor at the Philadelphia Society of the Lord’s New Church in Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania. He was an assistant pastor for eleven years at the Bryn Athyn Church, a society of the General Church of the New Jerusalem. His wife, Tirah Keal, is currently in seminary at the Center for Swedenborgian Studies, in training to become a minister in the Swedenborgian Church of N...

I hope you enjoy this short message recorded this morning from Temenos Retreat Center in West Chester, PA where I have been participating in Gathering Leaves, a gathering of women from the three denominational branches of the Swedenborgian Church. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit worshipislife.substack.com

Curtis Childs is the Vice President of Programming and Chief Visionary Officer at the Swedenborg Foundation and director of the YouTube Channel Off The Left Eye . While obtaining his degree in communication studies from Oakland University, Curtis experienced an internal battle with depression that led him to question God and his lifelong interest in Swedenborgian theology. After a period of intens...

Elliott Bazzano is an Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Le Moyne College, where he teaches courses on Islam, comparative religion, and altered states of consciousness. Elliott also publishes numerous blog posts and interviews about all things religion, spirituality, and dad jokes. In addition to finding inspiration in the mystical percolations of the Sufis, including co...

Robbin Ferriman serves as a licensed pastor with the Urbana Swedenborgian Church and archivist of the Johnny Appleseed Museum also in Urbana, Ohio. keywords love, community, spirituality, nonviolent communication, emotional intelligence, personal growth, divine providence, family dynamics, higher power, gratitude summary In this conversation, Sage Cole and Robbin Ferriman explore the multifaceted...

Rev. Gabriella Cahaley is a graduate of the University of Arizona and earned an M.Div. degree at the Earlham School of Religion. Gabriella pastored three congregations before becoming a hospice chaplain. For the past six and a half years, she served as a pastoral counselor in a psychiatric residential treatment center in Atlanta. Recently, Gabriella returned to the work she felt called to, as hosp...

Rev. Renée Machiniak has been serving as pastor of the Church of the Holy City in Royal Oak, MI since 1995. She also serves as a community police and oncology chaplain. She and her husband, Joe, reside in Royal Oak and enjoy participating in community charity organizations and events, singing in church and community choirs, and caring for their little pup Gertie. keywords: love, trauma, bulimia, h...

Rev. Dr. Ray Silverman very recently retired as Professor of Religion and English at Bryn Athyn College after 27 years of teaching. Ray is the editor/revisor of Helen Keller’s Light in My Darkness (1994, 2000) and author of How I Would Help the World (2011) and The Core of Johnny Appleseed (2012). Together with his wife, Star, he co-authored Rise Above It: Spiritual Development Through the Ten Com...

Page S. Morahan, Ph. D. is Founding Director, Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine ®  Program for Women (ELAM ® ) and Professor Emerita, microbiology and immunology, Drexel University College of Medicine. She is also Founding Co-Director and continuing consultant, International FAIMER Institute (IFI). She has directed numerous grants in both biomedical and social science and authored over 150...