Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
Founded in 1699 – Still active
Author: adamwhybray
-
A Personal Take on New Year Resolutions
I wonder how many of us have ever made New Year resolutions – I have!
-
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.
-
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.
-
Thin Places Talk
And so I invite you to celebrate your thin places, these luminous, numinous places of prayer, enjoying places that help you cultivate inner stillness in your lives but also, I also invite you to embrace the meaning generating mystery these places have to offer.
-
Fragments of the Mind of God: Atoms in Search of a Meaning
When you read Ezekiel’s visionary experience of the “four living creatures” appearing out of the tumultuous, flashing sky and the “wheels within wheels” that rise and move with them (chapter 1, vv. 4-21), you could be forgiven for wondering what he had been smoking because that vision bears the hallmarks of an hallucinogenic experience. But…
-
Queerness, Kinship, and Unitarianism: Reflections for Pride by Liz Constable
One is not born, but becomes straight(Sara Ahmed paraphrasing Simone de Beauvoir) When Linda invited me to share some thoughts with you all for our Pride Celebration service, I felt honoured and also a little flummoxed about what I could contribute to a congregation of Unitarians whose collective and individual histories abound in concrete examples…
-
No Thought of the Harvest
NO THOUGHT OF THE HARVEST Rev. Cliff Reed, Minister Emeritus Service address on Sunday 6th June 2021 I suppose worrying about the future has been one of the features of the pandemic. Worrying about our future health, worrying about the future of the economy and how it will affect us, worrying about whether planned…
-
Celebrating Wisdom, May Day and Beltane
CELEBRATING WISDOM, MAY DAY AND BELTANE Rev. Cliff Reed Ipswich Unitarian Meeting, 2nd May 2021 Text: The Song of Songs, chapter 2, verses 10 to 13. Those lines from the ancient Hebrew love poem that is the Song of Songs contain one of the most beautiful and memorable evocations of spring ever written. They are…
-
‘The Last Shall Be First: The Women and the Resurrection’ by Rvd. Cliff Reed
One of the most notable aspects of the Easter accounts in the four canonical gospels is the presence of women at the crucial moments. And one woman in particular is named as being present at virtually all of them, namely Mary of Magdala or Mary Magdalen. Matthew places her at the Crucifixion as do Mark…
-
‘Famous Last Words’ by Rvd. Cliff Reed
The last words of Jesus on the cross will be much read and much reflected upon today, but what were they? In fact the gospel accounts differ on this, and the most agonising and the most challenging version of those last words appears in only two of the gospels, Mark and Matthew. It has been…
Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House 