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S09 #05 - Maternalisation is materialisation—A happy, and cosmic, Mothering Sunday to you all! - A thought for the day
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Mar 27, 2025 |
S09 #04 - Two good very things—a spring thought for the day in advance of the Cambridge Unitarian Church's AGM - A thought for the day
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Mar 22, 2025 |
S09 Bonus Episode - Blue Remembered Hills — An elegy for my parents-in-law and the post-war liberal, democratic, rules-based order
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Mar 04, 2025 |
S09 #03 - Swinging the chaotic flows to better ends . . . - A thought for the day
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Mar 02, 2025 |
S09 Bonus Episode - Nascent Integral Liberal Religion - A thought for the day
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Feb 22, 2025 |
S09 #02 - A free-religious community re-reading of the Parable of the Prodigal Son — “the saviour was not the father but the home” - A thought for the day
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Feb 16, 2025 |
S09 #01 - It is human to have compassion for those in distress - A thought for the day
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Jan 19, 2025 |
S08 #14 - An obvious framework of ordinary, everyday existence, or the universal life seen in every newborn child - A thought for the day
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Dec 28, 2024 |
S08 #13 - Norbert Fabián Čapek’s “Ten Principles of Living” - A thought for the day
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Nov 30, 2024 |
S08 #12 - Preparing for a lowercase “c” christmas - A thought for the day
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Nov 30, 2024 |
S08 #11 - How can fascism be opposed in any other way than by force of arms? - A thought for the day
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Nov 08, 2024 |
S08 #10 - Every day is new, a fresh beginning - A thought for the day
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Nov 02, 2024 |
S08 #09 - Living well upon wondrous, mysterious facts . . . - A thought for the day
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Oct 26, 2024 |
S08 #08 - The therapeutic journey towards becoming free-spirits - A thought for the day
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Oct 17, 2024 |
S08 #07 - Full belief in “a newer testament, — the gospel according to this moment” - A thought for the day
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Oct 12, 2024 |
S08 #06 - All hail to the work of the civilised worm! — the creative, inquiring, free and liberative activity of free-religion - A thought for the day
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Oct 05, 2024 |
S08 #05 - A secular spiritual pilgrimage around the Res publica - A thought for the day
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Sep 26, 2024 |
S08 #04 - Are we seeing the return of the Sea of Faith? - A thought for the day
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Sep 21, 2024 |
S08 #03 - It is essential to have a heart like that of the Universe - A thought for the day
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Sep 13, 2024 |
S08 #02 - From sounding line to lamp wick — faith in the body of the universe - A thought for the day
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Sep 06, 2024 |
S08 #01 - Ladies and gentlemen, roll-up, roll-up, get your free, free-religious spectacles here . . . - A thought for the day
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Aug 30, 2024 |
S07 #38 - Trying to encourage the Unitarian Buridan's ass to eat a hearty and sustaining meal and, once again, come into a healthy, liberal religious fullness of being - A thought for the day
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Jul 27, 2024 |
S07 #37 - On the need to dissent from Trump’s new theology - A thought for the day
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Jul 20, 2024 |
S07 Bonus Episode - Short Mindful Mediation (20 Minutes)
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Jul 20, 2024 |
S07 #36 - A genuine, Unitarian mantra recalled - A thought for the day
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Jul 12, 2024 |
S07 #35 - The move beyond all “-isms” — being the fuller meaning and history of the Unitarian tradition - A thought for the day
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Jul 06, 2024 |
S07 #34 - Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - A thought for the day
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Jun 29, 2024 |
S07 Bonus Episode - A brief address on the occasion of my Kikyoshiki
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Jun 22, 2024 |
S07 #33 - To remind people of the creative, compassionate and cooperative, world-enhancing consequences of true, self-love - A thought for the day
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Jun 12, 2024 |
S07 #32 - To make a leap “from a world of doubting each other to a world of trusting each other” - A thought for the day
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May 24, 2024 |
S07 #31 - The true spirit of Pentecost — freely, creatively and rhizomatically educational, always and everywhere - A thought for the day
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May 18, 2024 |
S07 #30 - In praise of syncretism, the impurity of all religions, and the tumbling down of walls - A thought for the day
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May 11, 2024 |
S07 #29 - We are all manifestations of the Great Spirit, children of God, containing infinite treasures within ourselves - A thought for the day
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May 10, 2024 |
S07 #28 - Nothing belongs to anyone - all things belong to the whole - A thought for the day
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Apr 26, 2024 |
S07 #27 - On wobbly Jenga towers, church governance, yeast, broken bread, communion, metamorphosis and a modern, free and inquiring religion - A thought for the day
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Apr 20, 2024 |
S07 #26 - Deep and again deep - The gateway to all mystery . . . A meditation on the total eclipse of the sun, 2024 - A thought for the day
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Apr 13, 2024 |
S07 #25 - Jjiyū Shūkyō (a creative, free spirituality) as a Silken Tent - A thought for the day
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Apr 06, 2024 |
S07 #24 - To touch again the finely woven, seamless cloth of joy & woe — an Easter Sunday meditation - A thought for the day
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Mar 30, 2024 |
S07 #23 - Bringing into being an ethics of motion — A meditation on John Ford’s 1950 western, “Wagon Master” - A thought for the day
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Mar 15, 2024 |
S07 #22 - It’s always possible to embody truth, even when, technically, we’re not able to tell it - A thought for the day
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Mar 02, 2024 |
S07 #21 - What an apprenticeship in tailoring might tell us about the making of a creative, free spirituality or religion . . . - A thought for the day
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Feb 24, 2024 |
S07 #20 - Will ready-made religions ever really fit us properly? - A thought for the day
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Feb 15, 2024 |
S07 #19 A gentle plea for some basket-weaving and aphanipoiesis - A thought for the day
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Feb 10, 2024 |
S07 #18 - The sustaining sea and the need to take even strokes in these very uneven times - A thought for the day
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Feb 03, 2024 |
S07 #17 - How new are you? - A thought for the day
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Jan 27, 2024 |
S07 #16 - The new parable of “Mr Bates vs. The Post Office” - A thought for the day
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Jan 20, 2024 |
S07 #15 - A mystery is something in which I am myself involved - A thought for the day
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Jan 06, 2024 |
S07 #14 - A Small- Sized Mystery — A New Year’s Eve meditation - A thought for the day
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Dec 30, 2023 |
S07 #12 - The Quantum Manger — A Christmas Eve Meditation - A thought for the day
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Dec 21, 2023 |
S07 #13 - “The Eternal Buddha is no one else but the Eternal Christ” — A Christmas Day Meditation - A thought for the day
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Dec 21, 2023 |
S07 Bonus Episode - The Japanese Yuniterian [sic] tradition . . . or the dove that ventured outside
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Dec 15, 2023 |
S07 #11 - Beyond the binary of supply and demand — bringing citizens, business and industry together through a deep, but simple, creative, free spirituality - A thought for the day
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Dec 09, 2023 |
S07 #10 - Embracing climate adaptation positives in our settings in good company - A thought for the day
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Dec 02, 2023 |
S07 #09 - On freeing ourselves from being held captive by a particular picture of history - A thought for the day
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Nov 18, 2023 |
S07 Bonus Episode - "New Heaven" - Making Footprints Not Blueprints Theme Tune
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Nov 11, 2023 |
S07 #08 - Why “upholding the liberal Christian tradition" need not be the same thing as upholding Liberal Christianity - A thought for the day
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Nov 05, 2023 |
S07 #07 - What a kite can tell us about the making of a modern, creative, free-spirituality or religion (“jiyū shūkyō”) - A thought for the day
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Oct 28, 2023 |
S07 #06 - It is human to have compassion for those in distress - A thought for the day
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Oct 21, 2023 |
S07 #05 - What is still possible to do so that, at some point in the future, there might be a reconciliation and peace? - A thought for the day
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Oct 14, 2023 |
S07 #04 - Faith in one's own spiritual community and a creative, free religion or spirituality - A thought for the day
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Sep 23, 2023 |
S07 #03 - Faith in a universal cooperative society - A thought for the day
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Sep 16, 2023 |
S07 #02 - Faith in ourselves, our neighbours, and ourselves as neighbours - A thought for the day
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Sep 09, 2023 |
S07 #01 - A gentle call to adopt Imaoka Shin’ichirō’s creative, free spirituality found in his “Creed of Life” - A thought for the day
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Sep 02, 2023 |
S06 Bonus Episode - Only Conjugate! That is the whole of my sermon - (Final episode of Series 6)
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Jul 29, 2023 |
S06 #15 - Living completely inside the movement of the event of the search - A thought for the day
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Jul 19, 2023 |
S06 #14 - On the need for liberals to recover their inner Indiana Jones - A thought for the day
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Jul 19, 2023 |
S06 #13 - A reply to an inquiring teenager . . . - A thought for the day
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Jul 14, 2023 |
S06 #12 - Submerging the absurdity of death in gratitude for the wonder and wisdom of life - A thought for the day
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Jul 08, 2023 |
S06 #11 - Religion in the non-religious world - A thought for the day
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Jul 01, 2023 |
S06 #10 - Let us demand our own works and laws and worship - A thought for the day
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Jun 24, 2023 |
S06 #09 - To cultivate a mindful, restorative stillness, to hear beautiful music, and to engage together in a free and open conversation . . . - A thought for the day
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Jun 17, 2023 |
S06 #08 - And a world begins under the map—On the need to make errors - A thought for the day
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Jun 10, 2023 |
S06 #07 - Unplanned obsolescence and how, perhaps, to avoid it . . . - A thought for the day
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May 31, 2023 |
S06 #06 - An interfaith, Buddhisto-Christian, consequence of Pentecost - A thought for the day
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May 26, 2023 |
S06 #05 - Not in the saving, but in the spending well of your precious life will you find your treasure, and there your heart will also be - A thought for the day
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May 20, 2023 |
S06 Bonus Episode - Free Religion is bowing to each other
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May 19, 2023 |
S06 #04 - “Priests of stillness”—on first learning meditation from fenceposts along the Essex coast - A thought for the day
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May 13, 2023 |
S06 #03 - Circuses but no bread—a political-theological meditation offered on the weekend of the Coronation of King Charles III - A thought for the day
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May 05, 2023 |
S06 #02 - God is a DJ - A thought for the day
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Apr 29, 2023 |
S06 #01 - Safer than the known way - A thought for the day
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Apr 26, 2023 |
S05 - Bonus Episode - A community standing, perhaps, on the cusp of becoming “freethinking mystics with hands” - Final Episode of Season 5
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Mar 29, 2023 |
S05 #27 - What happens (to Easter) when we can no longer rely on spring? - A thought for the day
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Mar 24, 2023 |
S05 #26 - There is only mother love all the way down—Mothering Sunday - A thought for the day
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Mar 18, 2023 |
S05 #25 - Spiritual Values and Negative Capability - A thought for the day
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Mar 11, 2023 |
S05 #24 - Pragmatism is true, but doesn’t work—a lesson for liberal, free religion to learn - A thought for the day
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Mar 03, 2023 |
S05 #23 - The End and the Beginning—On the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine - A thought for the day
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Feb 25, 2023 |
S05 #22 - Living lovingly in hypernormal times - A thought for the day
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Feb 18, 2023 |
S05 #21 - What Mary Oliver’s black bear can tell us about the earthquake in Turkey and Syria - A thought for the day
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Feb 11, 2023 |
S05 #20 - Where is the life in the place in which others are putting us?—A call confidently to express a Free Religion - A thought for the day
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Feb 04, 2023 |
S05 #19 - Complete spiritual freedom is the great action that follows the clearing of decks - A thought for the day on the meaning and lessons of Unitarian history
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Jan 28, 2023 |
S05 #18 - Liberal, free religion—Catching moving trains or metaphysical hitchhiking? - A thought for the day
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Jan 20, 2023 |
S05 #17 - Recovering the courage to do the “vision thing”—a pressing issue facing all modern, liberal, free religious communities - A thought for the day
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Jan 14, 2023 |
S05 #16 - The epiphany of there being no “Epiphany” - A thought for the day
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Jan 09, 2023 |
S05 #15 - The human solidarity brought by the grace of being cold together—A meditation for New Year’s Day 2023
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Dec 31, 2022 |
S05 #14 - What the doubtful centipede can teach a liberal, free religion - A thought for the day
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Dec 30, 2022 |
S05 #13 - “The Eternal Buddha is no one else but the Eternal Christ.” Imaoka sensei’s “Three Christs”—A Christmas Day meditation
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Dec 24, 2022 |
S05 Bonus Episode - Christianity is basically an epic mistake . . . and the time is right to correct it
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Dec 15, 2022 |
S05 Bonus Episode - A hidden, Hidden Christian, Christmas—An Advent meditation
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Dec 15, 2022 |
S05 #12 - Catching sight of the “world bud”—An Advent meditation - A thought for the day
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Dec 10, 2022 |
S05 #11 - It’s such a surprise because it’s just the beginning—an Advent meditation - A thought for the day
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Nov 26, 2022 |
S05 #10 - Seek simplicity and distrust it - A thought for the day
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Nov 18, 2022 |
S05 #09 - A nascent form of integral, liberal, free religious worship - A thought for the day
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Nov 05, 2022 |
S05 #08 - A free religion radiant with a humanising light that the darkness will never overcome - A thought for the day
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Oct 28, 2022 |
S05 #07 - Creating a liberal, free religion appropriate for the possible incoming sea of faith - A thought for the day
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Oct 21, 2022 |
S05 #06 - Tiny seeds and tiny words of love, freedom and justice. Scatter them. — Resisting the neoliberal onslaught - A thought for the day
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Oct 08, 2022 |
S05 #05 - The reflection worth indulging doesn’t know where it is going—A fantasia on a passage by Henry Bugbee - A thought for the day
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Oct 01, 2022 |
S05 #04 - The work of love, or how to resist in the dark ages - A thought for the day
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Sep 22, 2022 |
S05 #03 - Why Jesus’ commandment that we “love one another” is always already new - A thought for the day
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Sep 16, 2022 |
S05 #02 - Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, Elizabeth Regina, requiescat in pace - A thought for the day
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Sep 09, 2022 |
S05 #01 - A gentle plea for a Buddhisto-Christian process religion - A thought for the day
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Sep 02, 2022 |
S04 #11 (Final episode of Series 4) - Constancy and change are not opposed but inextricably connected - A thought for the day
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Jul 30, 2022 |
S04 #10 - Kicking the can into hell?—A meditation written during the extreme heatwave in the UK - A thought for the day
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Jul 22, 2022 |
S04 #09 - That is why I am fed up; I take pity on ‘dust and ashes!’—speaking truth to power - A thought for the day
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Jul 15, 2022 |
S04 #08 - Look, there! what I mean by God! — God as event - A thought for the day
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Jul 08, 2022 |
S04 #07 - God does not exist . . . but God may happen - A thought for the day
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Jun 29, 2022 |
S04 #06 - Founding a true Commonwealth upon a real common wealth - A thought for the day
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Jun 25, 2022 |
S04 #05 - Not “a cost of living crisis” but a crisis of the neoliberal project - A thought for the day
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Jun 17, 2022 |
S04 #04 - A reasonable but passionate plea for the recovery (or rather, re-story-ation) of apocalyptic language within liberal religion - A thought for the day
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Jun 10, 2022 |
S04 Bonus Episode - Slavoj Žižek on the Holy Spirit
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Jun 10, 2022 |
S04 #03 - Our responsibility in society—two readings for Pentecost - A thought for the day
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Jun 04, 2022 |
S04 Bonus Episode - The fiery rope across generations and geography—a meditation for Pentecost
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Jun 04, 2022 |
S04 #02 - An anarcho-monarchist reflection at the start of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations - A thought for the day
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May 27, 2022 |
S04 #01 - Spiritual power beyond the known self—on the grace displayed by an unsecured (or secured) door - A thought for the day
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May 21, 2022 |
S03 #30 - Be ignited, or be gone — becoming freethinking mystics with hands - A thought for the day
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Apr 28, 2022 |
S03 #29 - "I have seen in my solitude very clear things that are not true" — on living the liberal religious life TOGETHER - A thought for the day
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Apr 22, 2022 |
S03 #28 - L’chaim! — to life! A religion without God and an ethics without absolutes—A short Easter Sunday reflection
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Apr 16, 2022 |
S03 #27 - Broken Hosannas—Palm Sunday - A thought for the day
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Apr 07, 2022 |
S03 #26 - Rock or sand, sand or rock? - why the true foundation of the spiritual life might not be what you think it is . . . - A thought for the day
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Apr 01, 2022 |
S03 #25 - A meditation on a Pietà, written for a Mothering Sunday during a time of war - A thought for the day
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Mar 25, 2022 |
S03 #24 - Information is fast and cheap. Knowledge is slow and expensive - A thought for the day
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Mar 18, 2022 |
S03 Bonus Episode - “Only a God can still save us”—a liberal religious confession
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Mar 15, 2022 |
S03 #23 - “Please save my dolly” — on the sharing of experience and a politics of solidarity - A thought for the day
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Mar 12, 2022 |
S03 #22 - “Love the hell out of this world”—a further lesson to be learnt from the Russian invasion of the Ukraine - A thought for the day
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Mar 04, 2022 |
S03 #21 - A political-theological ghost story — a lesson to be learnt from the Russian invasion of the Ukraine - A thought for the day
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Feb 26, 2022 |
S03 #20 - The goat path ahead less travelled by . . . or Liberal religion back at the crossroads - A thought for the day
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Feb 19, 2022 |
S03 #19 - Feeling the double movement of roots and fruits - A thought for the day
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Feb 12, 2022 |
S03 #18 - No one is ever alone if they can see the countless lives supporting them - A thought for the day
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Feb 04, 2022 |
S03 #17 - Faith does not consist in believing something wonderful . . . - A thought for the day
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Jan 28, 2022 |
S03 #16 - The parable of the mischievously wise physics teacher - A thought for the day
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Jan 21, 2022 |
S03 #15 - On baseball gloves and liberal religion - A thought for the day
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Jan 14, 2022 |
S03 #14 - Gold, frankincense and myrrh or a teapot, an empty jam tin, and a cabbage leaf? A short, secular religious thought for Epiphany - A thought for the day
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Jan 08, 2022 |
S03 #13 - John Keat’s ‘negative capability’ and COVID-19 - A thought for the day
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Jan 01, 2022 |
S03 #12 - The New Being — A short, secular religious thought for Christmas Day
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Dec 24, 2021 |
S03 #11 - “The Oxen”—A brief Advent meditation on Thomas Hardy's poem - A thought for the day
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Dec 18, 2021 |
S03 #10 - “Let it flow”—A brief Advent meditation on true-entrusting - A thought for the day
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Dec 11, 2021 |
S03 #09 - That-Which-Is-To-Come — An Advent meditation on Yeats’ poem, “The Second Coming” - A thought for the day
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Dec 02, 2021 |
S03 #08 - Omnia migrant — a short, Advent meditation on the fundamental condition of movement and migration - A thought for the day
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Nov 26, 2021 |
S03 #07 - Beautiful ruins: stronger by weakness, wiser we can become - A thought for the day
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Nov 20, 2021 |
S03 #06 - Love your enemy — a reminder for Remembrance Sunday - A thought for the day
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Nov 12, 2021 |
S03 #05 - Lucifer the light-bringer - A thought for the day
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Nov 06, 2021 |
S03 #04 - A Halloween ghost story for the start of the COP26 climate change meetings in Glasgow - A thought for the day
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Oct 29, 2021 |
S03 #03 - To clear our minds of selfish care - A thought for the day
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Oct 23, 2021 |
S03 #02 - The parable of the chipmunk—letting be, listening and seeing - A thought for the day
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Oct 16, 2021 |
S03 #01 - Levelling up? - A thought for the day
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Oct 09, 2021 |
Bonus Episode - Some personal reflections on the 20th anniversary of the events of September 11th, 2001
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Sep 11, 2021 |
Bonus Episode - On fans, thirteen blackbirds and the ineffable heart of all things
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Sep 03, 2021 |
S02 #04 - The freedom to be tomorrow what we are not today—Part Five - A Short Postscript, June 2021
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Jun 02, 2021 |
S02 #03 - The Freedom to be tomorrow what we are not today - Parts Three & Four - Becoming Archaeologists of Morning & men and women without a position
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May 22, 2021 |
S02 #02 - The Freedom to be tomorrow what we are not today - Part Two - Becoming Free Spirits
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May 15, 2021 |
S02 #01 - The Freedom to be tomorrow what we are not today - Part One - A beginning
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May 08, 2021 |
Bonus Episode - A mischevious spring meditation on Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall”
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Apr 24, 2021 |
S01 #27 - Adopting the role of umpire and letting the role of player go (End of Series One)
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Apr 17, 2021 |
S01 #26 - Cancelling my subscription to the Resurrection and truly living the death of God
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Apr 03, 2021 |
S01 #25 - Jesus or Barabbas, Carl Schmitt and Little Red Riding Hood
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Mar 27, 2021 |
S01 #24 - Firm ground is not available ground
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Mar 20, 2021 |
S01 #23 - The mother of matter is the matter of the mother - A poetic, supreme fiction for our age
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Mar 13, 2021 |
S01 #22 - More speed? More strength? More consumption? More Things?
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Mar 06, 2021 |
S01 #21 - What learning to play jazz can tell us about the need for a liberal religious discipline
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Feb 27, 2021 |
S01 #20 - Overcoming Christianity by incorporation and verwindung
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Feb 20, 2021 |
S01 #19 - Sappho’s time-scissored work—A new-materialist meditation for Valentine’s Day
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Feb 13, 2021 |
S01 #18 - By the way
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Feb 06, 2021 |
S01 #17 - The case for an Ecstatic Humanism
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Jan 30, 2021 |
S01 #16 - "Little children, love one another", or how to bore the pants off your audience
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Jan 22, 2021 |
Bonus Episode - A Service of Mindful Meditation
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Jan 15, 2021 |
S01 #15 - On the need to take even strokes
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Jan 09, 2021 |
S01 #14 - An ass eats its hay and a gardener turns their spade in readiness for the New Year (2021)
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Jan 02, 2021 |
S01 #13 - Accepting the problem posed by Christmas Day but without necessarily accepting the Christian solution
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Dec 23, 2020 |
S01 #12 - Steps, not-steps, promises and the art of metaphysical hitchhiking
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Dec 12, 2020 |
S01 #011 - How Nietzsche helps us better prepare to celebrate Advent & Christmas
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Dec 05, 2020 |
S01 #10 - What was, must be tested
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Nov 28, 2020 |
S01 #09 - When is ruination not (quite) ruination?
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Nov 21, 2020 |
S01 #08 - Live the questions now
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Nov 14, 2020 |
S01 #07 - This monument is for the unknown good in our enemies
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Nov 08, 2020 |
S01 #06 - The Subtle Deer meets Jesus & Socrates
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Oct 31, 2020 |
S01 #05 - Athens or Jerusalem or Athens & Jerusalem?
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Oct 25, 2020 |
S01 #04 - The Flight of the Phoenix
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Oct 17, 2020 |
S01 #03 - Short-circuiting the parable of the mustard seed
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Oct 10, 2020 |
S01 #02 - Socrates & Jesus vs the strongmen leaders
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Oct 03, 2020 |
S01 #01 - Cool It
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Oct 03, 2020 |