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SourceURL:file:///Users/tech/Desktop/Jesus%20and%20Freedom.doc Contemplate for a moment hiking up a wild and rugged mountain. The mountain itself is a challenge, and an experience of beauty and danger. A person must persevere. The higher one goes up the mountain the more one can see of the landscape around. There is, in seeing an expansive view, a natural delight […]
The most compelling way to describe the external state of the people before the time of Jesus is to compare it to what happens in cults. In a cult, for the most part, the member who comes under the spell does not see or feel them self being manipulated and compelled. Even if they do […]
The integration of psychology and religion is, I believe, an important direction for modern religion in general (and the Swedenborg Church in particular) to engage. The integration of the two fields heightens the meaning and the depth of each. There are many reasons for this, and they can only be discovered in time, but […]