Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
Founded in 1699 – Still active
Author: adamwhybray
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Too Cosy at Christmas
“I suppose that most of us like our Christmas to be a cosy time, and, for most of us it probably is – although we know well enough that this isn’t so for all too many today.”
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A REFLECTION ON THE DEATH OF THE QUEEN
“The death of the Queen has been met with so many fulsome and wholly justified tributes that I hesitate to add to them. But this is such a momentous event in our country’s story that I don’t feel I can just pass it by.”
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Address by Andrew Benedict
In “Cathedral”, a short story by the American novelist Raymond Carver, the main character tries to describe a cathedral to man who is blind. “They’re really big,” he explains. “Massive. They’re built of stone. Marble, too, and lots of polished wood. In those olden days, when they built cathedrals, [people] wanted to be close to…
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TIME TO WAKE UP: A JUBILEE REFLECTION
lways be joyful, pray continually; give thanks whatever happens; for this is what God wills for you in Christ Jesus.” (I Thess. 5: 12-18). Hold to that ethos and we will be true to the Spirit that has filled all loving communities of faith, regardless of the particulars of doctrine and theology.
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FROM GENTLEMAN JACK TO THE TRANSGENDER DEBATE
“This General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches,a. Affirms with joy that each person’s understanding and statement of their own gender identity is a matter of conscience;b. affirms that transgender rights are human rights;c. joins the BMA, the TUC and others in civil society in urging the adoption of the self-declaration model for gender…
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Dismal Stories
There was a time when people who delivered “dismal stories” were called “Jeremiahs”, Jeremiah being the Old Testament prophet most given to predictions of unrelieved gloom and disaster. But Jeremiah’s tragedy, like that of Cassandra in Greek mythology, was that he was not believed even though he was right…
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Reflecting on the New Year, 2022
One of the questions I’ve been asking myself is how we live ‘the now’ at this liminal period of the New Year when we’re spending so much time looking both forwards and backwards. What spiritual work keeps us in the present, in the now, at a time when so much around us propels us forward,…
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A Personal Take on New Year Resolutions
I wonder how many of us have ever made New Year resolutions – I have!
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The Fast of Advent
The Christian fast of Advent is traditionally a time of preparation for the feast of Christmas, the festival of the Nativity. Advent is supposed to be a solemn time, not the hyper-commercial hullabaloo that can make Christmas into an anti-climax by the time it finally arrives.
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WAR AND NATURE, WAR AGAINST NATURE
The counterpoint of war and nature is one of the themes running through the poetry and the art that have emerged from war. The horrors of war, with all its senseless brutality, suffering and destruction, stand in hideous contrast to the life-force, the beauty and the restorative power of the natural world.
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