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Category Archives: history
#FBF: Cincinnatian Eliza Lovell Tibbets & her Orange Utopia
California’s citrus industry owes a huge debt to the introduction of the navel orange tree—in fact, to two trees in particular, the parent trees of the vast groves of navel oranges that exist in California today. Those trees were planted … Continue reading
Relatively Presidential
Are you interested in Presidential History? Check out this article by Francesca McCrossan, Ph.D. And Rev. Dr. James F. Lawrence, about the great grand-uncle of George HW Bush, the first George Bush, and his connections to the New Church. https://css.gtu.edu/the-first-george-bush-philosopher-minister/
Posted in Famous Swedenborgians, history, Holidays
Tagged center for swedenborgian studies, George Bush, history, Swedenborg
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#FridayFeeling @NewportAquarium: Many Fish, One Ocean
Via Swedenborg.org: 1893 Religious Plurality Swedenborg saw and conversed with persons of many faiths and so urged acceptance of other religions long before ecumenism came into vogue. Chicago lawyer Charles Bonney, a Swedenborgian Church member, initiates and manages the 1893 … Continue reading
Posted in history, Theology
Tagged #FridayFeeling, Cincinnati, New Church of Montgomery, Newport, Religious Ecumenism, Swedenborg
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#FBF “It’s Not in Buildings”
A beautiful memoir of the original Swedenborgian Church in Walnut Hills by Carol Skinner Lawson…
Posted in history
Tagged #FBF, Books, Carol Skinner Lawson, Cincinnati History, memories, old churches, Swedenborg
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#FBF #CincinnatiHistory @GlendaleNewChu
Historical views on the Glendale New Church’s beliefs, post-construction, in 1861. Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged #FBF, Cincinnati, Glendale New Church, history, New Church of Montgomery
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#FBF An Underground Community & the Eckstein School
Learn from this historical piece, An Underground Community, by William M. Parrish, about Glendale, OH’s place on the Underground Railroad. Read about the challenges and imprisonment of local abolitionists as they fought against social norms to keep blacks enslaved, even … Continue reading
Posted in history
Tagged Abolition Village, Cincinnati, Eckstein School, Glendale, William Parrish
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#FBF #CincinnatiHistory #Music & #Hymns
This hymnal was printed in Lebanon, Ohio, by Nathaniel McClean, 1810. Thomas Newport was the first Swedenborgian in the territory now Ohio…and ordained one of their Ministers. Delighting in singing, in 1810 he compiled and caused to be printed in … Continue reading
Posted in history, Music, Uncategorized
Tagged Cincinnati History, Hymns, Lebanon, Nathaniel McClean, Swedenborg, Thomas
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