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Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful
by A Podcast of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative
As a part of the initiative of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, founder Rev. Sage Cole hosts Be Love interviews, Be Honest conversations on faith and justice and Be Useful Community Spotlights, as well as sharing her own Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful reflections and meditations. worshipislife.substack.com
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My village at the moment.
Well, here we are on Wednesday, my formal Sabbath day, and I find myself continuing to long for a village. I’m recording the sky I’m looking at instead of myself, because it’s the village that’s available to me right now: the birds, the trees, the wind. There’s even a little squirrel friend…
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Be Love: “This is eternal work.”
Hal Rosner is a retired arborist, living in Philadelphia. He and his wife Jennifer are the parents of two adult children and three grandchildren. Together they maintain home garden that is generous mix of vegetables and native plants. He is currently active with numerous urban forestry…
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Be Love: “Living seeing the miracle.”
Annie Drake is a Logopraxis Life Group facilitator and General Manager of a large ready-mix concrete company in Fort Myers, Florida. Born in Santiago, Chile, she immigrated to the United States as a child and has lived most of her life in South Florida. A mother of two and grandmother of three…
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A Room of One's Own
*Full confession, I use the free version of Claude AI to suggest the titles for videos, edit the transcripts that I include here, and create the social media posts that I share in the Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful Facebook Group. I am conflicted about this AND amazed and appreciative of what AI…
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The New Jerusalem: Truth, hope and the spiritual journey
Rev. Sage Cole is joined by Rev. Catherine Lauber and Rev. David Moffat, fellow New Church ministers, for an honest conversation about the New Jerusalem and how its teachings shape everyday life. They explore it as more than a biblical image: a hopeful vision of inner change, community, and unity...
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The Longing That Doesn’t Go Away
Friends, I am feeling weary today. I wonder about you. I don’t have a lot of words. I don’t have a lot of energy. I don’t have a lot of knowing. What I seem to have at the moment is a lot of unknowing. Uncertainty. A host of problems circling around, needing to be solved. And a longing for that...
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The big exhale we all need.
Big exhale. I wonder if you could use a big exhale at this moment right now. I’m taking a little bit of a risk with this video today, because there’s a lot going on — in my household, in my heart, in my nervous system. My husband and I are struggling with our oldest son and the transition to...
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Choosing from a deeper place.
Hi, welcome. I welcome you, I welcome myself, and I welcome this moment. And I invite you to join me for a short, less than 12 minute meditation time of being present in this moment where we find ourselves. You might want to take a deep breath. Even if you’re in the middle of activity or driving...
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Altar Space: Helen Keller
Greetings, friends, and welcome back to my altar. This morning I want to share this picture, which some of you probably recognize — a picture of the great Helen Keller, namesake of the new collaborative I’m in the process of forming and bringing into being. She’s a really important person to me,...
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Altar Space: The Painting from Holy Hill
For my altar space offering today, I want to speak a bit about this painting right here behind my chair. This was painted by a seminary classmate of mine, a longtime friend of mine from my teenage years in the Swedenborgian Church Youth League who’s taken a different direction. This is a…
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Altar Space: Carrying the flame of Rev. Dorothea Harvey.
Continuing this series on what's on my altar and why: this week, a candle handed down to me by a lineage of women leaders. Welcome to my altar space. This morning I’m going to share with you a little bit of the backstory of this angel — the one you see situated at the center of my altar. It’s...
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Altar Space: The Ascension
Hello friends, happy Sunday. Welcome to Altar Space. This week I am pleased to be sharing this wood carving that I have hanging in my altar area, next to my working space. I think I’ll share this wood carving and then also this painting, because they’re kind of similar, aren’t they? They’re both...
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Episode 9: The Church
Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church — truths that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the new life so many of us long…
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Altar Space: Swedenborg's Rules of Life
This week: Swedenborg’s Rules of Life For my next installment, I’m taking you to a different part of my room — right next to my bed, by my bedside table. This is Swedenborg’s Rules of Life. I purchased it many years ago on a visit to Bryn Athyn — it was actually a coloring page, and I colored in...
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Episode 8: Jesus & The Divine Humanity
Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church — truths that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal to the new life so many of us long for....
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Episode 7: The Word
Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the new life that so many of us long for.…
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Altar Space: Lying Down Lady
Welcome. I’m so pleased this week to share this painting with you — it’s called Lying Down Lady, a mountain range in Anchorage, Alaska. There are a lot of layers of story wrapped up in this piece. I’ve shared some of them in different contexts, so depending on who you are, you might already know...
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Episode 6: Regeneration
Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the new life that so many of us long for.…
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Altar Space: Emanuel Swedenborg
Continuing this series on what's on my altar and why: this week, a portrait of the man whose vision shapes my whole ministry. Hey friends, welcome to week two of me sharing different items from my home altar, to share a little bit more about me and how I’m cultivating sacred space in my life. So...
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Episode 5: Heaven & Hell
Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church — truths that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the new life so many of us long…
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Altar Space: The mandala
This week I'm starting something new: each week, I want to share a piece of my altar — the objects, art, and touchstones that surround me in the space where I live, pray, and work. First up: a mandala with roots in my sister's creativity and my grandmother's memory. Greetings, friends. I’ve had…
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Episode 4: Divine Providence
Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the new life that so many of us long for.…
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Episode 3: Spiritual Freedom
Welcome to Notes from the New Heaven. Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the…
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Episode 2: God as Love, Wisdom & Use
Welcome to Notes from the New Heaven. Join me, Reverend Sage Cole, founder of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, each week as I share different doctrinal truths of the New Church that ground my life, that inspired the life of the great Helen Keller, and that create a portal for the…
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Episode 1: The New Jerusalem
Join us this summer for a 12 part series on my experience with doctrinal pillars of the New Church. In the fall I’ll host larger Be Honest Livestream conversations on each topic, so if one resonates in particular let me know and join the conversation! The New Jerusalem encapsulates the hopes for...
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A Be Honest Update
In this heartfelt message, Rev. Sage Cole shares her reflections on the legacy of going one’s own way, the tension between independence and connection, and her exciting vision for the future of spiritual community. As she steps into new territory with the Helen Keller Spiritual Life…
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A New Church is Descending: Embracing Transformation and Regeneration
There is something happening in me. My suspicion is it’s happening in you, and all over this planet right now. My best understanding of what is happening is that a new church is emerging, coming into being. That this vision of the New Jerusalem from Revelation — the one so many of us have been...
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A Be Honest Conversation: LGBTQIA Identity Love, Gender, Marriage & Sexuality
Today’s podcast is a recording of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative’s third Live Streamed Be Honest Conversation, LGBTQIA Identity: Love, Gender, Marriage & Sexuality featuring Rev. Colin Amato, Tirah Keal & Alex Gayheart. The conversation was cosponsored by the Helen Keller Spiritual...
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"Curating myself to be consumable is creating more chaos,"
Greetings, friends. Happy Sunday. I hope this message finds you well — at least in a place where you are safe and resourced enough to sit and watch a video on Substack or YouTube or wherever you find this. I want to share this morning about a recent awareness that has come into my consciousness,...
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It's good to appreciate the paths that got us here.
Greetings, friends. The message I want to bring today — the one I’m sitting with — is that it’s good to appreciate where we’ve been and all of the people and energy that has sustained us thus far. I’m out in one of my favorite little patches of woods near my house, and I’m appreciating the…
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Helen Keller: Becoming the Holy City Inside & Out
Ah what a beautiful weekend I am returning from at the Lord’s New Church in Bryn Athyn, PA where I got to speak about Helen, collaborate on a retreat with Deborah’s Tree and many others, and preach on Sunday morning. I got to share a lot about Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful and I received so much...
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Be Love: "I'm not afraid of being taught, in fact I love it."
Rev. Robert McCluskey holds a B.A. and M.A. in philosophy, with a focus on Greek philosophy, modern idealism, existentialism, and hermeneutics. He is a graduate of the Swedenborg School of Religion, and was ordained into the Swedenborgian Church of North America in 1984. He has pastored churches…
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A Be Honest Conversation: Swedenborgian Anti-Racism Them & Now.
Today’s podcast is a recording of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative’s second Live Streamed Be Honest Conversation, Swedenborgian Anti-Racism Then & Now featuring Sue Ditmire. The conversation was cosponsored by the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative and Swedenborgians In Action...
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A Be Honest Conversation: "How are we called to act in the face of suffering and injustice?"
Today’s Be Honest conversation emerged when Be Love Podcast guest the Rev. Edward Kent Rogers reached out to Alex and I after our recent episode Asking to dwell in the question of how to act in the face of injustice and harm. This conversation is raw and real and we hope it will stir many more…
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A Be Honest Conversation: "Water is life,"
Circe Moss MacDonald was a guest on the Be Love Podcast in May 2025 and its a joy to have her back this morning for a more topical Be Honest Conversation about Water, and its essential and sacred role in the thriving of life. Eco-Chaplain Circe Moss MacDonald serves as the Spiritual Director and...
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Be Love: "Love really allows people to show up as they are."
Parker McMullen Bushman (She/They) is an innovative leader, speaker, and facilitator dedicated to creating transformative experiences that promote diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice across industries and for the environment. As the CEO of Ecoinclusive Strategies, founder of the Summit for...
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An Easter Invite
I’m not done wanting to be church. I’m not done believing that I can be a part of loving co-creative spiritual community where together with others I can experience the life of heaven and take part in bringing that heaven into being here on earth. And I must do this and be this, in my own way.…
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A Be Honest Conversation: Gender Equity & The New Jerusalem.
Today’s podcast is a recording of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative’s first LiveStreamed Be Honest Conversation Series: Gender Equity & The New Jerusalem featuring Dr. Page Morahan. The conversation is hosted by Rev. Sage Cole of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative and Rev....
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A Be Honest Conversation: "Amplifying Women's Voices and Spiritual Leadership in the New Church."
Enjoy this first episode of our new Be Honest Conversation Series exploring topics of faith and justice on the journey of becoming a new church. Today we speak with Rev. Rosyln Taylor about her groundbreaking working amplifying women’s voices in the life of the new church through her ministry...
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Be the beloved community, inside and out.
Be love. Be here. Be as you are. Knowing that underneath, and in, and through, and at the core of your experience right now is the energy of love. A holy vibration that connects you to everything else. To the source of all that is. The Creator, Redeemer, and Regenerator of this life. The…
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Be Love: "Everyone is doing the best that they can."
Alex Gayheart (they/them) is the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative Executive Assistant, a retired after 20+ years School Administrator, a very part-time Barista, the Digital Support person for The Rainbow Church of the New Jerusalem(a ministry of the Swedenborgian Church of North America...
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Loving the bit of earth we inhabit
Transcript: Hey friends, it’s Sage. I’m here with my dog, Princess on probably the first day that it’s been possible to come to the park since the snow has been melting here in Boston. I felt moved to stop and just record a quick video before we continue, about Day Three of creation. Because we...
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A message from your bookshelf.
Hi, how are you today? I’m coming to you from your bookshelf. Do you have a bookshelf in your home? A place where you keep your stories, the tales and reports on life that inspire, uplift, entertain, or improve your life in some way? Books are quite a special human invention. Helen Keller used to...
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Be Love: "Let's Be Honest,"
Dear friends, I took my time in today’s podcast to share more about the invitation to Honesty, in my trinity Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful. Grounded in Love, our celebration of Helen Keller’s Spiritual Birthday this week marks the beginning of a new season of Be Honest Conversations that I am so...
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Be Love: "Commit to common cause with each other."
Ethan served various places across the US and spent five years serving a congregation in London England. He’s currently a pastor of Sunrise Chapel in Tucson, Arizona. Ethan’s happily married for almost 25 years and has five amazing children. Keywords love, spirituality, disability, community,...
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If you are feeling a mess…
A messy message for this morning ❤️ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit worshipislife.substack.com
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Be Love: "The mission is on."
Bob Kwesi Hagan is the residential pastor for the New Church Convention in Ghana, Africa. He is a seminary graduate at the GTU in Berkeley. Bob has a mission to make the Hon. Swedenborg's name a household name in Ghana. He is also an artist using music as a model of regeneration and restoration…
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Be Love: "Everything we need is here."
Rev. Alison Longstaff Moore was raised in the conservative branch of Swedenborgianism and remained active in it until her mid forties when she resigned from that branch and joined the Swedenborgian Church of North America. Having felt the call to ministry when she was eight, Alison was now free…
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Be Love: "I want to love other people and talk about the most important things."
This week the tables are turned as long time friend and Executive Assistant of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative Alex Gayheart interviews me for a change. Tune in to hear a bit more of my story and the journey of love that brought all this work I’m currently doing into being. keywords...
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Be Love: “Life is a labyrinth, not a maze.”
Alan Cowley is a pastor, artist, musician, and labyrinth designer based in Horsham, Pennsylvania. He has served as pastor of Michael Church (London, UK), The New Church at Boynton Beach (Boynton Beach, Florida), and as pastor and school director at Oak Arbor Church and Montessori…
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As a part of the initiative of the Helen Keller Spiritual Life Collaborative, founder Rev. Sage Cole hosts Be Love interviews, Be Honest conversations on faith and justice and Be Useful Community Spotlights, as well as sharing her own Be Love, Be Honest, Be Useful reflections and meditations.
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