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Consistent Answers

“What I love about the New Church is that ever since I can remember there have been answers to all of my questions. Sometimes those answers were given by people I knew closely and some-times I just knew that they were out there somewhere and that I would get to them eventually. There is no time limit on the truth and that keeps me interested.”

–Rebekah Simons

Rationally Whole

“I like to think of the whole body of the teach-ings of the New Church as being very special. They are emotionally and rationally whole, and so they give me everything I need emotionally, and stand up to any rational inquiry I throw at them. I will grapple with some ideas over years, but eventually I always come around to seeing, intellec-tually, that they are right, and they are true.”

–Hilary Bryntesson

Married Love

“For me the main thing about the New Church are teachings about Married Love. It just means that when you find your wife and the two of you work together, there’s nothing happier than that. That’s what I like best.”

–Ed Cranch

Religion in Life

“You don’t have to attend a church to be religious. When you do good, you are practicing the life of religion.”

–Patricia Appiah

Universal Ideas

“What is so wonderful and unique about the teachings of the New Church is that, because they are so universal, wherever you go, you can’t help but see them, in whatever religion, in whatever society. So throughout my travel and exploration of various belief systems, all I could see was a reflection of the universal teachings of the New Church.”

–Jared Alden