The last two chapters of the last book of the Bible—Revelation—describe the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God. The new Jerusalem is not a physical city. It is not going to literally descend onto…
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How Big is the New Jerusalem?
Tagged with: heaven, new Jerusalem, religion, Revelation, spiritual meaning, spirituality, the Bible
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Posted in The Bible Re-Viewed
Does Suicide Work?
The scourge of suicide Each year, tens of thousands of people in North America, and up to a million people worldwide, take their own lives as an escape from situations that feel overwhelming and hopeless to them. Millions more make…
Lee Boyd Malvo: Human Justice vs. Divine Justice
Lee Boyd Malvo. To anyone who was living in the Washington, D.C. area in October, 2002, that name, along with the name of John Allen Muhammad, is indelibly associated with terror, pain, and death. Muhammad was tried, convicted, and executed…
Tagged with: death, divine justice, evil, heaven, hell, John Allen Muhammad, justice, Lee Boyd Malvo, pain, sniper killings, suffering
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
On Earth as it is In Heaven, by Lee Woofenden
Here is a book of sermons I preached in 2003, when I was pastor of the New Jerusalem Church in Bridgewater, Massachusetts: On Earth as it is In Heaven Reflections on Jesus’ Parables of the Kingdom and Emanuel Swedenborg’s…
Tagged with: Emanuel Swedenborg, heaven, spirituality, the Bible, the Lord's Prayer
Posted in Books and Literature, The Afterlife
Posted in Books and Literature, The Afterlife
Can Gang Members Go to Heaven? (Is Life Fair?)
A couple years ago a Swedenborg reader named Sue from San Francisco asked me a question. She had been thinking about an incident in which a 17-year-old gang member from Oakland had been shot and killed in a San Francisco…
Tagged with: children, death, gangs, heaven, hell, justice, pain, poverty, reincarnation, spiritual rebirth, suffering, violence
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
Posted in Current Events, Pain and Suffering, The Afterlife
Death and Rebirth, by Lee Woofenden
Here is a book that I wrote in 1995 when I was in seminary, and finally got into print a decade later in 2005: Death and Rebirth From Near-Death Experiences to Eternal Life by Lee Woofenden
Tagged with: death, Emanuel Swedenborg, heaven, near-death experiences, spiritual rebirth, spirituality
Posted in Books and Literature, The Afterlife
Posted in Books and Literature, The Afterlife
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