Our expert panel convenes once again to answer some hard-hitting questions—with just a little help from eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
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Swedenborg & Life Live Recap: The Gates to Heaven and Hell — 01/13/20
Everyone has heard of the pearly gates to heaven and the doorway to hell, but in this episode, we ask why there are gates in the spiritual world in the first place. Hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose study eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s accounts of heaven and hell to teach us what these gates truly mean.
Continue ReadingSwedenborg & Life Recap: What Does It Feel Like to Die? — 1.5.20
Death is terrifying to most people. It’s this great big unknown that faces all of us, an event that is difficult to understand based on things that we’ve experienced here on earth. Why do we die? What does it feel like to die? What happens after death?
Continue ReadingSwedenborg & Life Live Recap: The 10 Commandments: What Honoring Father and Mother Really Means — 12/16/19
When viewer Tor Halstvedt wrote us to share his own struggle with honoring his father and mother, we knew we had to have a deeper look at the inner meaning of that commandment. In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Chelsea Odhner reveal how eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg’s teachings can bring peace where the letter of the law fails.
Continue ReadingGood Question! Recap: Giving Tuesday 2019 — 12/09/19
In our finale to our Giving Tuesday week celebration, our expert panel gathers to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
Continue ReadingGood Question! Recap: Giving Tuesday 2019 — 12/02/19
In this special Giving Tuesday episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose join us to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg.
Continue ReadingSwedenborg and Life Live Recap: Who Are the 144,000 in Revelation? — 11/25/19
Curtis and Jonathan unpack the answer to a viewer question about the significance of the number “144,000” in the book of Revelation.
Continue ReadingSwedenborg & Life Recap: What Would a City of Angels Be Like? — 11.18.19
In this episode, host Curtis Childs travels to San Pedro in Los Angeles, California to find an answer. He spends time with Reverend Jonathan Mitchell, co-pastor of the Garden Church, to learn more about the experience of an angelic community on earth.
Continue ReadingGood Question! Recap: Soul Contracts, Dream Interpretation, and How to Pray? — 11/11/19
Watch full episode here! Our expert panel has gathered to answer viewer questions with the help of the writings of eighteenth-century spiritual teacher Emanuel Swedenborg. The panel members are: Curtis Childs, host of Swedenborg & Life Chara Daum, Latin consultant, New Century Edition Chris Dunn, community manager for Swedenborg & Life Chelsea Odhner, writer for […]
Continue ReadingSwedenborg & Life Live Recap: What Turning the Other Cheek Really Means — 11/5/19
In terms of correspondences, what is the meaning of “turn the other cheek”?
In this episode, hosts Curtis Childs and Jonathan Rose do their best to answer this hard question with the help of the spiritual teachings of eighteenth-century theologian Emanuel Swedenborg.
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