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Exploring the need for liberals to commit to some kind of actual, ethical, religious and philosophical practice, especially during times of crisis such as the one through which, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all passing.

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The next series of online, Zoom conversations will start either at the end of January or the beginning of February 2021.

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A Christmas Day meditation on the question of how our everyday world of individual, finite things, including ourselves, relates to the whole. For this piece I gratefully draw upon two, twentieth-century  Czech thinkers, Erazim Kohák (1933-2020) and Jan Patočka (1907-1977).

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Some thoughts on how and why one might commit to a religious/philosophical/political project that doesn't start, or even finish, with a blueprint.
 
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Topic: Cambridge Unitarian Church Wednesday Evening Conversation

Time: Dec 16, 2020 19:00 London

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An introductory exploration of how Nietzsche thinks "free spirits" are made and how becoming a free spirit might gift us with a meaningful way still to celebrate Advent and Christmas after the death of our old conceptions of God, the divine and the sacred.   

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Some (positive) Christian atheist reflections on the seasons of Advent & Christmas drawing on the work of the twentieth-century German, Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch's 1972 book, "Atheism in Christianity".

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Topic: Cambridge Unitarian Church Wednesday Evening Conversation
Time: Dec 2, 2020 19:00 London

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Some Christian a/theist thoughts inspired by Heidegger and Bonhoeffer

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A few thoughts on how to live well in the In-Between of question and answer

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A pdf copy of “Living in the Questions” by Ralph Norman Helverson can be found at the following link:

https://www.unitarian.org.uk/sites/default/files/1977_LivingQuestions.pdf

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A few thoughts on the idea of the "the Good" (or "God") in the context of Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day drawing on a poem by the American poet and pacifist, William Edgar Stafford (1914-1993), called “For the Unknown Enemy” (William Stafford: “The Way It Is—New & Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press, 1998, p. 217).

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In recent weeks I’ve been trying to show various ways by which, and why, I think both our own liberal, democratic European and North American culture in general — and its liberal religious, Judaeo-Christian traditions such as the Unitarian one to which I belong — can confidently reconnect with its two major religious and philosophical fountainheads, namely, the human Jesus and Socrates and can do this without recourse to traditional Christian or Platonic beliefs.

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I thoroughly recommend listers to get hold of Jane Hirschfield's wonderful collection of poems called Come, Thief (Knopf, 2011) in which The Subtle Deer appears.

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Existentialism & Liberal Religion - A look at John F. Hayward's way of bringing the Jewish/Christian and Greek traditions back into play in a way that might make sense to modern sceptical, but still religiously curious, liberals . . . 

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Here's a link to a pdf of Hayward's long out of print 1962 book, "Existentialism & Religious Liberalism". Since the volume is now 58 years old I'm assuming that it is now out of copyright. If I'm bang out of order, let me know asap . . .

https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Existentialism-and-Religious-Liberalism-John-F.-Hayward-1962-Colour.pdf

Secondhand copies (not many) are available on AbeBooks:

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