Working Together in Conversational Motion—or why we are more like a wing than a conventional church community

A Boeing 777 READINGS:  WORKING TOGETHER David Whyte from The House of Belonging ©1996 Many Rivers Press We shape our self to fit this world and by the world are shaped again. The visible and the invi

Conversations religious naturalism Address Cambridge Unitarian Church Christian Atheism John Dewey Ontology of Motion sea of faith Klaas Hendrikse new materialism David Whyte Don Cupitt Grahame Davies

Being, in a round about way, a meditation on a verse by Abu al-‘Ala’ al-Ma‘arri: ”When a blind man goes by, pity him and know for sure that ye are all blind, even if ye have sight”

Sculptor Fathi Muhammad with his bust of Al-Ma'aari READINGS: Traditions come from the past, of high import if they be True; Ay, but weak is the chain of those who warrant their truth. Consult thy rea

Unitarian religious toleration Address Green Party Jeremy Caddick Cambridge Mosque Abu al-‘Ala’ al-Ma‘arri detached retina Hamlet Jehovah's Witnesses Qu'ran Tim Winter

Not the beginning of a new religion (re-ligio) but its end (de-ligio)?—A new-materialist reading of Pentecost

READINGS: Poem No. XXII in “A Shropshire Lad” by A. E. Housman      From far, from eve and morning         And yon twelve-winded sky,      The stuff of life to knit me         Blew hither: here am I.

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Not “ascension” but a mingling in the weather-world?—An Ascension Sunday Address

The weather-world, Cambridge, Ascension Sunday morning . . . READINGS The Ascension of Jesus (Acts 1:6-10) So when they had come together, they asked him, ‘Lord, is this the time when you will restore

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What can we learn from tying a rope around the world?

Dunes at Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk READINGS: What you have here in the readings is a juxtaposition of pictures concerning our idea of foundations and the foundation of our ideas. Today, for this add

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