Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
Founded in 1699 – Still active
Tag: history
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Banners, Poppies and the Meaning of Remembrance
I. I suppose Byron’s phrase “those bloody banners” might, today, have a rather different meaning from that which he intended! He was referring to the blood-soaked banners of war, today it might be used by someone who is upset by the current craze for tying Union flags to lamp posts. Flags, or banners or standards,
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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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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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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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“We Are Now in the Tabernacle of Meeting”: The Origins and Founders of the Ipswich Unitarian Meeting House
In his sermon on 26th April 1700 (which we usually call ‘the Fairfax sermon’), John Fairfax declared that, “I cannot censure as some do, but must commend this Congregation that they have at so great charge erected this large, spacious Meeting-Place…” He was making it clear that the building was the result of a community…
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