Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
Founded in 1699 – Still active
Author: adamwhybray
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Fifty Years of Embodying the Spirit: The Unitarian Young People’s League Remembered
“Service to the Unitarian movement was always one of UYPL’s objects, and leading worship in our churches was one way of doing it. Another way was to support and fundraise for Unitarian causes such as the Send-a-Child-to-Hucklow Fund and the Nightingale Centre at Great Hucklow. There was also fundraising for other causes too. UYPL raised…
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“We Are Now in the Tabernacle of Meeting”: The Origins and Founders of the Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
In his sermon on 26th April 1700 (which we usually call ‘the Fairfax sermon’), John Fairfax declared that, “I cannot censure as some do, but must commend this Congregation that they have at so great charge erected this large, spacious Meeting-Place…” He was making it clear that the building was the result of a community…
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What does it mean to be good ancestor?
IUMH Reflection at the service on April 14th, 2024, on the presentation by the GA Keynote Speaker, Roman Krznaric ‘What does it mean to be good ancestor?’ This is the question posed by the keynote speaker, Roman Krznaric, at the GA Conference last week. A question he adopts and adapts from the medical researcher who…
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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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