[Magdalen] Unexpected Pleasure.

[Grace Cangialosi]

I'm clueless as well, Jay, but I thought it was interesting, as I knew she was a person of faith. 

> On Mar 4, 2015, at 9:28 AM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I didn't know that, Grace. I still have no clue what they believe, and
> Marcia was certainly unable to explain it to me. Neither has my brother
> been, although he's read Swedenborg pretty extensively in and among his
> other theological/philosophical meanderings. (He's the family
> Episco-Buddhist.)
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 9:20 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Helen Keller, one of my childhood heroes, was a Swedenborgian.
>> 
>>>> On Mar 4, 2015, at 3:35 AM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen <
>>> magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Re: Swedenborgians in Philadelphia:
>>> 
>>> I photographed the Bryn Athryn Cathedral some years ago.
>>> I got a sort of creepy feeling doing so.  I checked first with  the
>>> church office, and they wanted to know who I was and what  my
>>> purpose was, and then someone followed me about the entire  time
>>> I was inside.
>>> 
>>> The story of the building of this church is quite interesting.   They
>>> originally hired the premier collegiate gothic architect in the  USA,
>>> Ralph Adams Cram, but the wealthy Scot who was bankrolling  the
>>> church (Pitcairn) disagreed with Cram at every step until  Cram
>>> finally simply bowed out and they finished the building on their  own.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> David Strang.
>>