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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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The Episcopal Church in Haiti: Stretching towards a new future. - --> The 2018 statistical reports for the Episcopal Church are out. There is considerable wringing of hands and some very enlightening commentary around...
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The horizontal and the vertical - As I was writing this sermon this week (Nov 2019), my husband and I began our traditional and seasonal debate about the atmosphere:- not extinction r...
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INTERIM - Yesterday, I'd written a few words about my state of mind and heart since my husband, Tom, died last year. This morning, I looked at my words from yesterda...
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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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Linguistics and Loanwords in the Gospel of Mark - Scholarly readers of the Gospel of Mark have long noted the conspicuous presence of non-Greek terms and phrases. A forthcoming article sets the analysis o...
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Faith Journey (part 9) - The following section is probably unnecessary if you have read, meditated upon, and inwardly digested my previous posts. However, there are a number of co...
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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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To defend the rights of our soul - So … new year … new post, after a long silence due to the need to think back about some religious bases of my life … And this new post is just to start thi...
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Tears of Love - Of your charity, oh my Lord, let me weep. For tears touched by the magic of sunlight become diamonds, and golden memories light up my dark road. In ...
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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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More small beauties - *21 May 2015 * The birds are singing, the sky is blue with fluffy white clouds. Creamy frothy blossom on a rowan tree. Dark blue spikes of bugle flowers. A ...
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Gaza - *Letter to my MP: Israeli bombardmen**t of Palestine * I am very disturbed by recent events in Gaza, including the bombing of a hospital, and the fact that...
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All people surpass the ordinary current: A Zen Dharma Talk - (A Dharma talk republished here with permission by Roshi Edward Sanshin Oberholtzer, resident priest and guiding teacher at both the Joseph Priestley Zen Z...
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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 opportun...
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Archiving the Sixth Edition APA Style Blog - Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes (turn and face the strange) Ch-ch-changes, oh, look out you rock 'n rollers —David Bowie, “Changes,” Hunky Dory We launched the sixth e...
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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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