Dear Martha: Letters to My Church

  In March 2022, I declared a New Church Jubilee at the Cambridge Swedenborg Chapel, feeling a call I could not ignore to re-evaluate how we were and were not living into the fullness of Swedenborg's vision of the new church.  This led to a sabbatical during which time I wrote a series of letters to my church, i.e. all of you.  Needing to ground what I wanted to share in real life, and real relationship, I composed these letters to Martha Richardson one of the beloved matriarch’s of the Fryeburg New Church, allowing the love I feel for her, and I know she feels for me, and that I pray and hope we all share, to guide my words.  Martha and I have shared them and now I share them with all of you.  I pray they may be received in the same spirit of love and hope that they were written.  Much love, Rev. Sage Cole Dear Martha, I hope so much that this letter finds you well, and that sitting down to hear from me is making you smile.  I know that your health is...