Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
Founded in 1699 – Still active
Category: Sermon
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Easter Mash-Up
What does Easter mean to people nowadays? I found myself asking this question when I was walking through my local cemetery one day during Holy Week, between the hope of Palm Sunday, and the despair of Good Friday. Passing by a new grave I was confronted by what, to me, was a truly bizarre sight
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Dying For Us All
Two thousand years ago, on a Friday morning in Jerusalem, at the season of Passover, a young Jewish rabbi named Jesus was led out to be executed, to be crucified on the orders of the imperial Roman authorities. That is what we commemorate today. In the eyes of the Romans he was a trouble-maker guilty
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Marianne Faithfull and the Ages of Women
I. Marianne Faithfull, one of the most truly iconic figures of the so-called ‘swinging sixties’, died on 30th January. I say “iconic” carefully and deliberately – it is such an overused word these days – because in the 1960s Marianne Faithfull’s image – which is what “icon” means – came to represent the feminine aspect
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A Carribean Odyssey
“Those were days I never should have had, in a country I never should have been in… but I did have those days, on that beautiful island, having times that changed my life… until my Odyssey brought me back to Ithaca.”
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Celebrating Lammas
Today we celebrate the first-fruits of the Harvest, a festival far older than the Harvest Festivals we hold in the autumn and one marked in various ways in many faiths and cultures.
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Justice Through Science
I would like to, if I may, talk to you all about justice. More than that, as Linda had suggested the theme of “Medicine under focus” as our theme, I want to talk about “Justice through science.”
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Religion and Politics, Democracy and Faith
But while a person’s faith and religious principles can and should play a part in how they exercise their democratic rights, religion should never be allowed to subvert, overturn or overrule democracy.
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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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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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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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