Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
Founded in 1699 – Still active
Author: adamwhybray
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Hope Out of Darkness: From the Tomb to the Garden
“It is not a shallow thing, this hope. It is the hope that remains when more superficial hopes have gone. It is the hope that we don’t even know we have when life is hard and cruel. It is the hope that underpins our life and survives our death, carrying our love to those who…
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The Question of Divinity
“It has been said of Unitarians (usually by Unitarians) that they don’t sing hymns as well as they might because they are too busy reading the next line to see if they agree with it!”
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Flying Through Gaza: A Christmas Sequel
“A voice was heard in Rama, sobbing in bitter grief; it was Rachel weeping for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they were no more” (2: 19). Much “sobbing in bitter grief” has been heard in Israel and in Gaza since October 7th.
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The Meaning of Life
One of the things that humans perpetually seem to desire is an answer to life, the universe and everything… an answer to the question, what’s it all about?
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The World Jesus Came To
Jesus wasn’t born into a historical or geographical vacuum. He was born at a particular time at a particular place and we might imagine that the New Testament would provide us with this information in a clear and unequivocal way. But it doesn’t.
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Angels Have No Memory
We cannot eradicate memory, nor would we really want to. But we can choose what to do with it. In our Remembrance of the war dead we express our sorrow at lives cut short, we give thanks for what they achieved in defending freedom and resisting tyranny, and we acknowledge with regret the death and…
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Poisoned by the Past
It is coincidental that this season of Remembrance also includes the day in November that marks the anniversary of the end of the First World War, a day when now we commemorate the dead of all wars and resolve not to repeat them. Tragically, though, in that – as a world – we have failed,…
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Reaping What We Sow
It sometimes seems that the future is bleak, with a burning planet descending into a chaos of social disintegration, environmental collapse and war as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ride out. But it needn’t be like this.
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Defoe and Dissent
Defoe leaves us on his fictional island, as Crusoe left his ‘subjects’, with a diverse, humane, tolerant and harmonious community of men, women and children, “of which”, we are told, “there were a great many.” Not a bad vision for the 18th century and maybe not a bad one for the 21st!
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Education, Education, Education
“If King Solomon, Jesus and God Himself struggle to get their students to listen, what chance does a humble secondary school teacher have?”
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