Johnny Appleseed and the New Church

"We have always been proud of this quirky character who did so much to spread the word of Swedenborg in the early 1800s. We have several signs of Johnny's trees in town here and there are many descendants in our congregation of people that he converted." "I doubt that it is true that he had talked of having two spirit wives as this would never fit with new church theology," she says. 'It should not be seen as representative of an entire religion'