2025
“Swedenborg as 'Memento Mori': Using the Seer to See Ourselves”
Presentation at the Swedenborg Birthday Community Supper
January 2025
Bryn Athyn, PA
2024
New Church in the New World by Marguerite Beck Block
Introduction and Epilogue, “New Church in the Newer World”
Swedenborg Foundation, 2024
"Ethics and Building on the Rock"
New Church Life, July-August Issue (p. 248-252)
“Forbidden Texts: Cataloging Clandestine Swedish Editions of Conjugial Love”
Institute for Swedenborg Studies Newsletter
Winter 2024
"Marguerite Beck Block: The Woman Behind New Church in the New World"
Presentation to the Home Church Community Saturday Brunch
February 2024
Bryn Athyn, PA
2023
"Behold Our Academy"
New Church Life, November-December Issue (p. 457-461)
(Charter Day Address delivered to the assembled Academy of the New Church delivered October 13, 2023 - Listen here)
"Marguerite Beck Block: A History of the New Church's Storyteller"
Presentation to the Annual Convention of the Swedenborgian Church
July 2023
Bridgewater, MA
“Forbidden Texts: Modern Lessons from the Underground Swedenborgian Translation Movement in the 18th Century”
Presentation to The Institute for Swedenborg Studies at Bryn Athyn College,
March 2023
2022
"Marguerite Beck Block: Without Flowers or Ceremony"
Passages, November 2022 (p.24-26)
"Marguerite Beck Block: 'Outsider Looking In"'
Presentation delivered as part of the Cairnwood Village Lecture Series
October 2022
"In Search of Swedenborg: Pilgrimage Reflections and the Power of Place"
New Church Life, September-October Issue (p. 411-416)
"13 Theses Regarding Homosexuality: Suggested Guidance for Practical Engagement for the General Church"
Presented before the Council of the Clergy of the General Church
June 2022
Bryn Athyn, PA
2021
"What the Heavenly Doctrines say about Sex & Gender: An Academy of the New Church Professional Development Experience"
New Church Life, September-October Issue (p. 372-383)
"The Cherry Street Temple: A 3D Digital Reconstruction"
Glencairn Museum News
May 6, 2021
2020
"Declarations and Revolutions"
New Church Life, September-October Issue (p. 369-377)
(Sermon delivered July 5, 2020. Link to video)
"Lessons from New Church Slavery Debates"
A COVID-Era Video Essay
October 3, 2020
"Racism and Leadership: Some Spiritual Principles and Personal Reflections"
Swedenborg Foundation: Spirituality in Practice Blog
September 17, 2020
"Glencairn's 1796 Halfpenny Token: A 3D Video Rendering of the Earliest New Church Temple"
Glencairn Museum News
Number 6, 2020
"The Minecraft Academy of the New Church: Coping with Quarantine Through Creative Construction"
New Church Life, July-August Issue (p. 316-321)
"Racism and Leadership"
Our Daily Bread, June 2020
"New Church Pro-Slavery Thought"
Presentation Accepted for the Council of the Clergy of the General Church Meetings - Cancelled due to COVID-19
Bryn Athyn, PA
"The New Church in the New World Tour and Dinner"
Presentation Accepted for the General Church Retreat - Cancelled due to COVID-19
Bryn Athyn, PA
"The Way We Were: The New Church in Philadelphia"
Presentation Accepted for the General Church Retreat - Cancelled due to COVID-19
Bryn Athyn, PA
"Humble Pie: What the New Church Slavery Debate Can Teach Us About Humility"
Presentation Prepared for Inspirationshelg 2020 - Cancelled due to COVID-19
Stockholm, Sweden
"It's not Swedenborg's Skull: A True Story"
New Church Life, January-February Issue (p. 49-52)
2019
"Two-Hundred Years and One-Hundred Miles: Doctrine's Failure to Settle the Slavery Debate in the New Church"
New Church Life, September-October Issue (p. 416-446)
"New Church Pro-Slavery Thought"
Presented at the Council of the Clergy of the General Church Regional Meetings
Bryn Athyn, PA
2018
"You can Take it with You!"
New Church Life, November-December Issue (p. 491-493)
Bryn Athyn, PA
"You can Take it with You!"
Presented at the Academy of the New Church Charter Day Banquet
Bryn Athyn, PA
"Singulars and Particulars – or God Almighty And the Temptation To Lose Oneself in The Details" by the Rev. Göran Appelgren
Respondent, Presented at the Council of the Clergy of the General Church Meeting
Bryn Athyn, PA
"Women in the Ancient World" (Workshop)
Facilitated at the Council of the Clergy of the General Church Meeting
Bryn Athyn, PA
2017
"Healthy Sexuality: Starting a Dialogue"
Panelist, Wellness Resource Center, Temple University
Philadelphia, PA
"Introducing a Taxonomy of Doctrine"
Presented before the Council of the Clergy of the General Church
Bryn Athyn, PA
"Finding the Humanity in Judas Iscariot"
New Church Life, March-April Issue (p. 103-117)
2016
“Sex and Gender and the Heavenly Doctrines”
Presented at the Council of the Clergy of the General Church Regional Meetings
Bryn Athyn, PA
“The New Church and the Nicodemus Tension”
New Church Life, May-June Issue (p. 222-232)
2015
“The New Church and the Nicodemus Factor”
Guest Speaker at the Washington New Church "New Church Day" Banquet
Mitchellville, MD
2013
"Obstacles in the Path"
Bryn Athyn College of the New Church Theological School Valedictory
2011
“Witnessing Your Faith”
Presented at the General Assembly of the General Church of the New Jerusalem
Bryn Athyn, PA
2007
“Change to Endure”
Presented at the Academy of the New Church Charter Day Banquet
Bryn Athyn, PA