#ringwoodunitarians — Public Fediverse posts
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A description of the gathering for reverence we held on Zoom on Sunday is now available on our blog https://ringwoodunitarians.blogspot.com
Raises the curious question as to whether the character Jesus is portrayed as being racist.,.,,Readings were from the Bible and from Howard Thurman. Music from YouTube.
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A description of the gathering for reverence we held on Zoom on Sunday is now available on our blog https://ringwoodunitarians.blogspot.com
Raises the curious question as to whether the character Jesus is portrayed as being racist.,.,,Readings were from the Bible and from Howard Thurman. Music from YouTube.
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A description of the gathering for reverence we held on Zoom on Sunday is now available on our blog https://ringwoodunitarians.blogspot.com
Raises the curious question as to whether the character Jesus is portrayed as being racist.,.,,Readings were from the Bible and from Howard Thurman. Music from YouTube.
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While you're here, our next gathering for reverence and worship is on Sunday 18th August at the Ringwood Meeting House BH24 1EY, starting at 11 a.m. Topic will be 'The Great Unknowing'
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We humans can be so fearful that we project our fears falsely onto others around us, imagining that we are more alone in our views than we actually are.
Link to a past report from the USA as one example. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-actions-are-far-more-popular-than-people-in-u-s-realize/
This is why the take home message from our gathering for reverence on Sunday was so helpful and hopeful: *if you can see a change for good in your own life, you can see the possibility of change for good in another’s life.*
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Report about our latest gathering for reverence last Sunday now available on our blog. Celebration of #Pride
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Our gathering yesterday had a reading from the Gospel of Thomas about making two into one, and a piece from Rev Edman on queering theology (her book Queer Virtue). Also a report back from All Out about successes and how much more there is to do.
Well received. Family stories about comings out followed, and we talked about going to New Forest Pride on Saturday 27 July, Lymington, UK
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From the Refugee Council UK blog: “Receiving refugee status should be a time of celebration, but hostile policies leave many, including children, survivors of sexual and gender-based violence and survivors of human trafficking, in significant crisis.
The next government must end the refugee homelessness crisis and support refugees in transitioning to stable lives in the UK.”
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Good words from a compadre #Unitarian in UK
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While you’re looking at this account, just like to announce our next gathering for reverence
It will be on Zoom on Sunday 16 June starting at 1100 BST
Includes reference to PrideTide and the contributions that Queer perspectives can make to theology
If you want to come, I can send the Zoom link
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These are the lanyards I will be wearing all tomorrow for the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
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These are the lanyards I will be wearing all tomorrow for the International Day Against Homophobia, Biphobia and Transphobia
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CW: Announcing next event
We gather in Ringwood, Hampshire, UK on Sunday 19 May at 1100 BST for reverence. Ringwood Meeting House BH24 1EY
Hymns, readings, meditations, prayer.
Unusually for Unitarians we will address the topic of the Trinity. Influences: Meister Eckhart as interpreted by Cyprian Smith. Quantum physics interpreted by Diarmuid O’Murchu.
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CW: Announcing next event
We gather in Ringwood, Hampshire, UK on Sunday 19 May at 1100 BST for reverence. Ringwood Meeting House BH24 1EY
Hymns, readings, meditations, prayer.
Unusually for Unitarians we will address the topic of the Trinity. Influences: Meister Eckhart as interpreted by Cyprian Smith. Quantum physics interpreted by Diarmuid O’Murchu.
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I love my Unitarian home. It expects me to evolve as I live and experience more, as I come into (seemingly) random contact with spiritual teachers of great variety and wisdom.
It allows me living space, committed to its community, as my theology moves and weaves ever onwards.
Currently I would describe myself as a Benedictine Unitarian (regarding living in a community) and an Adyashanti Christian (regarding my view of the richest narrative I know, the story of Jesus).
But I was not always in that space, whilst still being a Unitarian.
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I love my Unitarian home. It expects me to evolve as I live and experience more, as I come into (seemingly) random contact with spiritual teachers of great variety and wisdom.
It allows me living space, committed to its community, as my theology moves and weaves ever onwards.
Currently I would describe myself as a Benedictine Unitarian (regarding living in a community) and an Adyashanti Christian (regarding my view of the richest narrative I know, the story of Jesus).
But I was not always in that space, whilst still being a Unitarian.
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Personal statement here from the editor of an account representing a group.
I agree with David Tenant
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/07/david-tennant-speaks-out-weaponising-trans-rights/
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Personal statement here from the editor of an account representing a group.
I agree with David Tenant
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/07/david-tennant-speaks-out-weaponising-trans-rights/
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CW: Christianity and economics
A great shock to most who think they know the words of the “Our Father” also known as “The Lord’s Prayer” — take a shufty at this article.
“Conventions of translation and habits of thought are chiefly to blame — we fail to notice that a very great many of Jesus’ teachings concern debtors and creditors, the legal coercion of the former by the latter, the need for debt relief, and the inferred imperative to return to Mosaic law with its recognition of the fundamental indecency of using interest to enslave the needy.”
“The prayer Jesus taught was originally, and remains, a prayer for the poor—a prayer, that is, for the poor alone to pray.”
https://churchlifejournal.nd.edu/articles/a-prayer-for-the-poor/
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Standing in tears and solidarity with everyone excluded from the religious practice and communities of their cultural belonging and personal longings
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Standing in tears and solidarity with everyone excluded from the religious practice and communities of their cultural belonging and personal longings
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UK Unitarian church — what for?
Just like charities and other self-organizing communities, the UK Unitarian church is there to address or solve a problem or need.
What need?
We see the tragic problem in the human experience primarily as ignorance, somnolence, alienation and disconnection. Against this, we see the fundamental reality of the world is relationship, and not isolation.
Our good news is that we already live in paradise — it is within us and all around us — but we don’t see it, and so we abuse it. We are helping each other to open our eyes and see it !
Our faith is that paradise is both here and now, and also not yet. Paradise is and can be realised in some shape or form on earth — but we have to build it, helped by sources beyond our understanding.
Paradise is and will be a natural, earthly scene of beauty, peace, abundance and joy. Paradise is and will be a beloved community of joy and celebration where all feast together at one table, rejecting Empire in all its violent and coercive forms, and where God is known walking and growing on earth, not hidden away in the skies.
The Unitarian good news : you live in paradise, and the powers of Empire have lied to you !
“Paradise raised me up as I perceived it,
It enriched me as I meditated upon it;
I forgot my poor estate,
For it had made me drunk with its fragrance.”Ephrem the Syrian, 4th century CE
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UK Unitarian church — what for?
Just like charities and other self-organizing communities, the UK Unitarian church is there to address or solve a problem or need.
What need?
We see the tragic problem in the human experience primarily as ignorance, somnolence, alienation and disconnection. Against this, we see the fundamental reality of the world is relationship, and not isolation.
Our good news is that we already live in paradise — it is within us and all around us — but we don’t see it, and so we abuse it. We are helping each other to open our eyes and see it !
Our faith is that paradise is both here and now, and also not yet. Paradise is and can be realised in some shape or form on earth — but we have to build it, helped by sources beyond our understanding.
Paradise is and will be a natural, earthly scene of beauty, peace, abundance and joy. Paradise is and will be a beloved community of joy and celebration where all feast together at one table, rejecting Empire in all its violent and coercive forms, and where God is known walking and growing on earth, not hidden away in the skies.
The Unitarian good news : you live in paradise, and the powers of Empire have lied to you !
“Paradise raised me up as I perceived it,
It enriched me as I meditated upon it;
I forgot my poor estate,
For it had made me drunk with its fragrance.”Ephrem the Syrian, 4th century CE
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@Anthro @RebelGeo Ok, so if 80 to 100 years left before breakdown of civilisation is the acknowledgement that we - the fellowship represented by this account - make, then what is the message we hear that goes along with it?
Well, our latest gathering for reverence dealt with exactly that. It’s about what to do with the time left. You can see the full report at https://ringwoodunitarians.blogspot.com
#faith #religion #justice #climate #hope #Unitarians #RingwoodUnitarians
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@Anthro @RebelGeo Ok, so if 80 to 100 years left before breakdown of civilisation is the acknowledgement that we - the fellowship represented by this account - make, then what is the message we hear that goes along with it?
Well, our latest gathering for reverence dealt with exactly that. It’s about what to do with the time left. You can see the full report at https://ringwoodunitarians.blogspot.com
#faith #religion #justice #climate #hope #Unitarians #RingwoodUnitarians