Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
Founded in 1699 – Still active
Category: Sermon
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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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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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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.
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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
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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
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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
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