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Habitual worship and sufficient cause - There are two phrases of deliberate ambiguity in the rules for eligibility to be on the electoral roll: that someone is a 'habitual worshipper', or that th...
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A Challenge to the Church: How to be Church in a post-democratic America. - This is a challenge to the leadership of The Episcopal Church, concerning how to be Church when the assumptions about the State prove inadequate or untru...
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Collections of thoughts for a future blog post - In short, I had always believed that the world involved magic: now I thought it perhaps involved a magician. – G.K. Chesterton View RSS
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UKRAINE - The Russian brute destroys lives By killing, by grief, by loss. Cities, towns, and villages Racked and ruined By soldier brutes who follow their leader. O...
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Oh this is sad... - So, back on my infrequent perusal of my blogspot favourites and came across this sad update regarding Michael F. Flynn's passing last year: 'The TOF Spot: ...
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The Danger of Equanimity - Equanimity is prized in Buddhism. Some would say it's the second biggest goal of Buddhist life and practice - the ability to be unswayed by things that ha...
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This blog location will be deleted by May 17 - Just a reminder that this blog location has moved to aprildeconick.com. The blogger location will be deleted on May 17. We will have a party!
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In memorandum - As many of you now know, my father Larry Hurtado has passed away on the 25th of November 2019. I will keep his blog online as it is a testament to his work...
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Faith Journey (part 10 and final) - This will be the final post recounting my journey from believing pastor to where I am now (secular, humanist, agnostic-yet-mindful of the mystery of life a...
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Today's 'Planet Earth Report' --Black Hat Cyber Attacks: “Can Morph Satellite Antennas Into Microwave Oven-like Weapons - The satellite communications that ships, planes and the military use to connect to the internet are vulnerable to hackers that, in the worst-case scenario,...
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Indian Coulcil of Unitarian Churches Met at The Unitarian Church, Jowai on the 29th & 30th June 2013 - The Indian Council of Unitarian Churches (ICUC) met at the Unitarian Church, Jowai on the 29th and the 30th of June, 2013. The General Meeting of the Counc...
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Blogging @ UCCN - Led by Louise Rogers, a group of UCCN-ers chose to start blogging. In Louise's words, this is what we've been doing during the blogging workshop. And the...
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Sight impairment - emotional responses - There are many ways to react to sight impairment depending upon when the sight impairment happened, how it happened and the circumstances and personality o...
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Worship should be broad. And deep. But broad. - 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 ...
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Am I enough? Am I doing enough? - I’ve been struggling a bit lately with a sense of mediocrity and a feeling of confusion about what I should be trying to do with my life. I can’t seem to s...
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Fundamentalism, identity and the Word of God - “12 As you enter the home, give it your greeting. 13 If the home is deserving, let your peace rest on it; if it is not, let your peace return to you. 14 If...
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Integrating the Alien - Refugees - When people leave their country of residence due to oppression and/or a fear for their life, they become refugees. The Hebrews, in the book of Exodus, were...
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The BBC's divisive belief test - Sir Tim Berners-Lee (the inventor of the World Wide Web and a Unitarian Universalist) invited me to present the Thought for the Day, on the BBC's Today Pr...
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Timothy Sprigge - Lord's Prayer - "O mysterious but glorious universe of matter and of spirit, of which each of us is but a tiny fragment May the goodness, which we trust is somehow at the...
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All eyes on Rafah - I have again written to my MP, who is a member of the Canada Israel Parliamentary Group. This is not the first time that I have written to her, but perh...
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Alan Watts for Good and for Ill - Alan Watts died on the 16th of November. in 1973. For many reasons, some good, some less so, he continues to be a presence at that edge of North American s...
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Out With The Old, In With The New - Happy New Year from the UUA! As the clock ticked down on truly momentous year for Unitarian Universalism, I reflected on all the amazing work being done in...
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Settlin' Into My Life in St. Croix - Installation Ceremony - December 9, 2012 One of the first things I did upon arriving in St. Croix was to rejoin the Writer's Circle. I had the opportuni...
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Sadly, this is a thought that has bubbled up in my mind on any number of occasions - frequently somewhere around hour eight... Occasionally much after...
That's why we have prayer books.
Unitarians did, and in one case in the UK still produced one, with maybe a few using 1932, but the language moves on at such a rate and there is no consensus about their meaning and adequacy to use them any more. One of two still do much extempore.
Perhaps on occasion, use the prayer book as a starter and update the words. That would be a bit easier than starting from scratch every week. Although, original liturgies can be lovely.
The lack of readily available frameworks for worship is a major failing for those lay persons who are called upon occasionally to lead Unitarian services ; when I was in this position some years ago many hours were spent searching for suitable readings/prayers/meditations even before one got to considering the sermon.
I think congregations generally appreciate a few familiar landmarks in the service ; too many lead to the 'liturgical coma' but too few and services become a succession of novelties ; newcomers,particularly,in my opinion,appreciate some kind of 'map' of what is going to happen and like to know where the church is 'coming from',doctrinally. In a denomination where fewer and fewer chapels have settled ministry, an outline framework for worship could establish a valuable unity for the congregation while in no way hampering the freedom of the worship leader to explore his/her own distinct message.
I use prayer books for structures, but none relate to Unitarian ranges of belief. In this one there is the structure of sorry, thanks, reading, a celebration of time, sermon, but more the hymn sandwich, and more on music for meditation along with all the hymn tunes to put to CD (with no organist). I fear now it is all too long.
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