New Web Site for the Sunday Night Thing

The Sunday Night Thing now has a web site, sundaynightthing.org. What is the Sunday Night Thing? Ah, well you can now read about it on the About page. The most exciting thing, though, is that you can also listen to some past services now on the Audio page.

Just this morning I put up recordings of Rev. Eric Carswell's talk about different responses we can have to evil and Rev. Lou Synnestvedt's talk about worry. Eric talked about trying to integrate statements like "I will fear no evil; for You are with me...." (Psalm 23), on the one hand, and teachings like "Everyone is regenerated by abstaining from sinful evils, and shunning them as anyone would on seeing the hordes of hell seeking with torches in their hands to attack him and to throw him upon a pyre" (True Christian Religion 510), on the other. And Lou talked about understanding feelings of worry as the influence of the spirits that are with us and dealing with worry by working on believing in the visible God (see True Christian Religion 339:3). Good stuff.

A Great Mother's Day Sermon

Rev. John Odhner gave a really interesting and useful sermon yesterday on "The Wisdom of Woman". He talked about Jehovah's words to Abraham, "Whatever Sarah has said to you, listen to her voice..." (Genesis 21:12) and about the teachings from Conjugial Love about how the wisdom of women exceeds that of men (e.g. Conjugial Love 208), and about how contempt destroys relationships.

It was "choir Sunday" so there's lots of singing in the recording of the service. If you want to just listen to the lessons and sermon, jump to 24:48 for the lessons and 40:31 for the sermon.

New Web Site for the New Church in Canada

The General Church of the New Jerusalem in Canada has a new, pretty fancy looking web site, www.newchurch.ca.

I haven't done much poking around their site but the FAQ page looks interesting and they have a bunch of pages under beliefs.

A Neuropsychologist's Reflections on Perception

"I Won't Believe It Until I See It" is the title of a fun post about perception by Dr. Karen, a psychologist with expertise in clinical neuropsychology who reads the Writings. She brings in a video of people passing basketballs, a quote from a sermon by Rev. Mike Gladish, Arcana Coelestia 5881, and some brain research. Enjoy!

It looks like Dr. Karen has some other interesting posts on her blog, Psychology of Swedenborg. Let me know if you read any of the other posts and recommend them.

Listen to Brother Miller's Radio Show Online

Back in March I alerted you to the fact that the Church of Truth has a web site. However, I've heard that, if you really want to experience the message of the Church of Truth, you need to listen to their radio show. Rev. Jonathan Rose just sent me instructions about how to do that:

Brother Miller's show starts at 6:30pm on Saturdays. It usually runs for an hour, but the second Saturday it runs for two and a half hours. The address is www.myspace.com/1240wllv. If the system is working correctly (which is most of the time) you should hear a brief burst of sound as soon as you go to the site, then twenty seconds of silence, followed by continuous sound. That silence is a function of the 20-second delay the radio station puts on the signal, apparently.