Inscribed on it are the words: "You're a bit of a Roman Catholic, the Holy Father, Benny 16" ('Benny 16' because he likes a teeny teeny little bit of modernisation).
Young adults will mess up your church
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Adam J. Copeland, blogging at A Wee Blether, believes most churches don't really want young adults. I have a theory about young adults and the church. Here i...
Denmark – the gay issue
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Church weddings for gays proposed From the Copenhagen Post, 23.11.11;
http://www.cphpost.dk/news/national/88-national/52556-church-weddings-for-gays-propose...
AEJCC
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AEJCC - Junior evangelical Anglicans looking for a positive future in the
Church of England.
In July, I go to the AEJCC - the Anglican Evangelical Junior C...
Women bishops: some media reports and blog reactions
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Gavin Drake has this news report today for the Church Times House of
Bishops amends women bishops Measure. And there is this Church Times
Leader: Looking f...
MITT ROMNEY - UN PETIT BIJOU
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The little jewel is set in an interview with Mitt Romney by Mark Halperin*:*
*Halperin*: *You have a plan, as you said, over a number of years, to
reduce ...
Evolving
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We hear a lot these days in the political arena about a kind "evolving"
that isn't really evolving at all - it's more about being afraid to take a
stand.
...
The chicken gene
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'But I let myself fall backwards'.
*Brill start to the weekend!* Despite dreaming that I had slept in and
missed my slot, I didn't, and I made it to the Hu...
Another book review for Holy Misogyny
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Kristin Morris has published a review of Holy Misogyny in ForeWord Reviews
HERE. It was published in Winter 2012 section. I must have missed it when
it ...
Jesus’ “Ascension”
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Well, another dreadful “thought for today” on Radio 4 this a.m., this one
ostensibly taking as its pre-text (and I use the word advisedly) that today
is As...
A Unitarian Universalist Visits the Bahai Temple
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By Eric Stetson I was an enrolled member of the Baha’i Faith from 1998 to
2002. Although I was very serious about my faith and took two trips halfway
acros...
Spiritual Self-Defense, VII
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Birth of the Báb Cease now to visualize the sword, but continue to
visualize the circle until it expands to form a sphere of light all around
you. Clasp yo...
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I am a Unitarian, and we characteristically light a flame in a chalice
which burns during worship. *
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*A Unitarian Jesus’ Prayer*
Begetter of life in e...
Sermon for Pentecost Sunday
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I live on the other side of the city. On my first Sunday here I was about
10 minutes late – a source of considerable embarrassment. The quickest
distanc...
Sun, cycling, beer, sandwich, Fenland = heaven
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At last some sunshine coincides with a day off. Hallelujah! Out came the
Guv'nor for spin out to Quy, Bottisham, Swaffham Bulbeck, Burwell, finally
stoppin...
VAT on alterations to listed buildings
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The extension of standard rate of VAT on alterations to listed buildings
was included in the recent Budget and will adversely effect many historic
churche...
59 Annual Conference of The Unitarian Union Youths
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Choir by the youths of the host Church
The 59th Annual Conference of the Youths Association (Seng Samla Unitarian
Union) of the Unitarian Union Northeast In...
Recommended reading
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- *The Unitarian Life: Voices from the Past and Present* by Stephen
Lingwood - a collection of pieces written by various Unitarians through the
...
Rocky roads
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If we are truly taking the path less travelled then we are likely to hit
some rocky situations. We are likely to trip, become tired and irritable,
become l...
Worship should be broad. And deep. But broad.
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It’s my day off after FUSE and I’m supposed to be working on the refresh
the Inquirer website. (Which I promise I will do more on this evening.)
But, I’ve ...
The Happiness Hypothesis, part 2: morality
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Being a moral psychologist, Haidt has included plenty on the subject of
morality in his book. He is a self-professed liberal atheist but his
sympathy towar...
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*Skylark*
In my mind's eye
he lies, sad small bundle,
amongst the wildflowers,
on a bank of grief and death.
He was a skylark,
rising into the air,
singing...
LOST and theology: who are the good guys?
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***Spoiler alert***
I'm continuing some theological/philosophical reflections while re-watching the series LOST.
One of the recurring themes in LOST is the...
And Spring!
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The Cherry Blossom pushes forth her white flower
Ready to blush in the face of the sun.
The prism of Spring awakens to burst it’s colour
In streams across th...
Inhabiting the paradox
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There's a great post by Andrew Brown over at Caute about inhabiting paradox,
which addresses the identity of British Unitarianism - is it Christian,
post-C...
Functions of religion
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I guess the social function of religion is to maintain social cohesion by
suppressing urges that lead to individuality (such as sexuality, magic and
mystic...
Vampires, vampires, everywhere…
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Bram Stoker’s gothic novel Dracula was published on this day in 1897. While
vampires had long been part of the cultural matrix. and there were even
novels ...
From the Road: Meadville Lombard Commencement
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I love graduations. They are wonderful celebrations that also put us in
mind of some of our core values—hope, high aspirations, honoring human
accomplishme...
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Friendly, too.
And Rowan came home with another cross to bear
Inscribed on it are the words:
"You're a bit of a Roman Catholic, the Holy Father, Benny 16" ('Benny 16' because he likes a teeny teeny little bit of modernisation).
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