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An authentic Unitarian theology
Talking about God The theme of this year’s Summer School was talking about God. Which is a nice, plain English way of saying that it was all about theology. Now, I’ve mentioned before (and I seem to...
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I was at Buyan last month, and we had a Quaker visitor, Mark. He explained to us about Quakers, ran a listening activity and then helped us with a short Quaker meeting for worship. It was all excellent...
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Think about the audience
Facing the audience It’s quite hard to be excited about January. But, on the upside, I’ve started preparing my workshop for the UCCN weekend. I’m doing the Friday night session, which is all about...
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It’s funny when you investigate a new blog, you always end up semi-stalking them and posting comments on lots of posts. Or at least I do. I’ve just been reading Boy in the Bands. He’s an American who’s...
View ArticleLinking up with local synagogue
I’ve just come back from our congregational visit to the nearby progressive synagogue. It was an interesting experience. About 15 of us turned up, we went to their normal Saturday morning Shabbat...
View ArticleWorship that’s missing
Over the last few months, there has been some coverage in The Inquirer of the idea that we Unitarians do not do ‘joy’ in our worship. Almost inevitably, this has lead to backlash from others who like...
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It’s not all about the inner journey
The other day, I travelled over 100 miles (in each direction) to attend a workshop given by Peacebang. Was it worth it? No. But then, nor did I expect it to be. It wasn’t at all billed as something...
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What does it mean to have a vocation?
nun and waterfall by xinem I’m never quite sure that I understand the difference between ‘vocation’ and ‘things I want to do and can do, that need doing’. Except maybe in the context of music. People...
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Spread the load
Too much of the work in our congregations and our movement falls on the same people. This should come as no surprise – it’s always this way in any volunteer organisation. There’s always more work than...
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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 spent an hour or more catching up on blog...
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