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Shorthand Connections in Swedenborgian Circles
Read this interesting article about shorthand, and its relation to one of the Swedenborgian church’s influential family’s members, Isaac Pitman. https://www.nypl.org/blog/2015/05/27/researching-shorthand
Posted in history, Literature
Tagged #funfacts, NY Public Library, Pitman family, shorthand, Swedenborg
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#WomensHistoryMonth/#TBT: Florence Murdoch
Florence Murdoch was born June 14, 1887 in Lakewood NY to James Riley Murdoch and Florence Carlisle Murdoch. Although she was born in Lakewood NY, she lived her entire life in Cincinnati OH. She was a member of the American … Continue reading
Posted in Art, history
Tagged Cincinnati, Florence Murdoch, New Church, Old newspapers, Swedenborg, Women artists, Women of the Church, Women's history month
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#ThrowbackThursday: Owenites and Swedenborgians
As we explored last Sunday, Swedenborgians in Southwestern Ohio were interested in utopian ideals and were associated with the Owenite community which attempted to form in Yellow, Springs, OH. As you will see in the documents below, the Owenite society … Continue reading
Posted in history, Uses
Tagged Owenites, Swedenborgians, Utopia, Women's rights, Yellow Springs
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Pageant of the Past
From the archives. Ghosts of Christmas past. December 25, 1861.
Posted in history
Tagged #SpiritualCincy, Christmas, Cincinnati, Cincinnati History, Swedenborg
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Jesus’ Humble Entrance #LunchtimeLessons @OffTheLeftEye
Posted in history, Holidays, Theology, videos
Tagged Birth of Jesus, Christmas, Cincinnati, Humble Beginnings, Jesus, Off the Left Eye, Swedenborg
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#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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