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A prayer for Splodge
I have loved you from the day you came into my life,and now it is time for me to let you go.You taught me how the universe is founded upon love;you were shown love and responded the only the only way...
View ArticleDaily Devotional 22 February 2012
Daily Devotional - MorningAt the start of day or before you start work, perhaps you might like to join in with these thoughts and prayers. If you do, find a quiet place, take time to be calm and...
View ArticleThe Bible and Sexual Mores
Like many Liberals I am disgusted by the pontificating of Cardinal O'Brien; yet as a wooly-liberal he would perhaps dismiss my theology as 'cherry picking'. I find myself doubly under attack by him:...
View Article1662 and all that
The sermon for Sunday's service at Wakefield.“Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike?” That’s my sermon. That’s it. You need not think alike to love alike. You expected more, didn’t you?...
View ArticleParable of the Good Lancastrian
This next parable started with a man asking Jesus a question. The man who asks Jesus a question is very smart and was maybe trying to trick Jesus and see if he was a good teacher or not. This is...
View ArticleSome hymns
Let us build a houseLet us build a house where love can dwelland all can safely live,a place where saints and children tellhow hearts learn to forgive.Built of hopes, and dreams and visions,rock of...
View ArticleWell Dressing
“All Creatures of our God and King”This magnificent picture, created by year 10 students to commemorate the 2012 Olympic Games. The display reflects the Olympic ideal of bringing together all the...
View ArticleLindseys Communion Service
Theophilus Lindsey was an Anglican Clergyman, who like many other Latitudinarians in the 18th century church wanted a "broad church" with the abolition of the 39-articles. Sadly, he felt compelled to...
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"Carved Stone Heads"
Two of the most famous Unitarian gothic-revival churches in the UK are Hyde Chapel, Cheshire and Mill Hill Chapel, Leeds both by the Manchester firm of Bowman & Crowther and opened within months of...
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"Engines that bend"
A new book discussing the origin of the articulated railway locomotive has recently been published: the most famous "bendy" engine being the Garratt (or Beyer-Garratt) built by the Gorton firm of...
View ArticleRevolutionary Unitarians
2012 sees the 220th anniversary of the conferring of French citizenship upon some of the most prominent Unitarians in British history: Rev. Dr. Joseph Priestley, Rev. Richard Price and Jeremy Bentham....
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Sport and the Sacred
I am a rower. To me sport is something meaningful both personally and spiritually.When you sit in a boat with eight other guys, you put your faith in the boat - quite blindly- that it will float...
View ArticleSome Prayers
God, help me remember that the higher human within me is in constant development. Help me achieve the state of calm and serenity required for an orderly development of my higher being. Let me enter...
View ArticleEaster...
Many people have asked me, what is it that I, as a Unitarian believe, and, because we do not hold with a belief in the Holy Trinity, what do we do about Christmas, and, more fundamentally, Easter.Well,...
View ArticleJesus Saves?
Jesus Saves – but not like a ComputerSo often one sees the words “Jesus Saves” bandered about, and like the cynic I am, cannot resist adding “with the Halifax” or “ but not as good as Johnny...
View ArticleReligion and Spirituality....some thoughts...
I am reminded of the story of a cowboy who went to a church wearing jeans, ragged boots and a worn out old hat. As the cowboy took his seat, people moved away from him. No one welcomed him. As the...
View ArticleLove your Dalek
“Love your enemy”Who doesn’t know what a Dalek is? Who, when they were young didn’t cower behind the settee from those maniacal pepper-pot shaped baddies, armed with nothing more than a sink-plunger...
View ArticlePersonal Training for the soul
What do we mean by “fitness”. Anybody? Well, no it’s not about getting muscles or losing weight. To most people getting “fit” is an abstract idea, a notion, an idea, bantered about with no real...
View ArticleNaming "God"
When we were kids in Sunday School, we were taught that God was a white man with a beard who sat on a throne and did nothing but have people stand around him and bow and tell him how amazing he is. A...
View ArticleAll scripture is innerant
On the Unitarian facebook group recently, a Conservative, Literal Christian posted the well-known and well-abused passage from Timothy: (2 Timothy 3:16) “All scripture is inspired by God ...”But the...
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