OUR STORY
As part of the Chicago Society of the New Jerusalem (Swedenborgian Christianity), the Swedenborg Spiritual Growth Center is easily accessible in downtown Chicago, opposite the Daley Center, in the Chicago Temple Building at 77 W. Washington St. (corner of Clark St. & Washington.)
Our church was founded in 1843 by early settlers of Chicago, including Jonathan Scammon, an attorney and passionate student of the insights of the Swedish engineer and natural philosoper Emanuel Swedenborg.
Swedenborg, one of Ralph Waldo Emerson's "Representative Men" in his book by that title, inspired dozens of churches across America in the 1800s. His theology presents a loving God, for Whom our free will is paramount.
Swedenborg's ideas were seminal to New Thought in the U.S. At the Swedenborg Spiritual Growth Center, we host:
• Worship of God.
• Study of the Bible using both Swedenborgian insights and modern scholarship.
