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  • V.E. DAY AND THE AMBIGUITY OF CELEBRATION

    I. We have just had a week of celebrations for V.E. Day, marking the 80th Anniversary of Victory in Europe and the end of the war against Nazi Germany. It wasn’t the end of World War II, though. That had to wait until V.J. Day and victory over Japan three months later. There was still…

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  • The Religion of Jesus

    The Religion of Jesus

    Today we tend to see our Unitarian movement as inclusive and diverse to a remarkable degree, but we should never cease to be aware that our roots are in Christianity, and that many Unitarians – of whom I am one – identify as Christian, albeit of an extremely liberal hue. There was a time, not…

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  • The Question of Divinity

    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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  • Angels Have No Memory

    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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