Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
Founded in 1699 – Still active
Tag: Existential
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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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The Meaning of Life
One of the things that humans perpetually seem to desire is an answer to life, the universe and everything… an answer to the question, what’s it all about?
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Earth, Moon and Lammas
The climate-change and global warming, which the satellites in space have enabled us to chart on a planetary scale, make for a grim story that we ignored for too long – about fifty years or so, in fact. We may not be able to rely on the cycle of seedtime and harvest as we once…
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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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‘The Colour of Magic’ by Ali Mercer
The Colour of Magic Part 1 When Lucy pushed her way through the coats hanging in an old wardrobe, she could never have imagined what she would find. Instead of a simple hiding place in a game of Hide and Seek, she steps into a whole new world, a world full of strange and magical…
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