What learning to play jazz can tell us about the need for a liberal religious discipline
This week’s address/podcast is called “What learning to play jazz can tell us about the need for a liberal religious discipline” You can read the text at this link <https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/02/what-learning-to-play-jazz-can-tell-us.html> And listen to the podcast at this link: <https://www.buzzsprout.com/1378024/8039518>
Overcoming Christianity by incorporation and verwindung
“Overcoming Christianity by incorporation and verwindung” Text: <https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/02/overcoming-christianity-by.html> Podcast: If you would like to join a conversation about this podcast then our next Wednesday Evening Zoom meeting will take place on 24th February at 19.30 GMT. Link below. Topic: Cambridge Unitarian Church, Evening ConversationTime: Feb 24, 2021 19:30 London Join Zoom Meeting<https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82763640509?pwd=cEJXSXZlVkhqQk9HL1BCVHgrRzdydz09>Meeting ID: 827 6364 […]
Sappho’s time-scissored work—A new-materialist meditation for Valentine’s Day
“Sappho’s time-scissored work—A new-materialist meditation for Valentine’s Day” Text:<https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/02/sapphos-time-scissored-worka-new.html> Podcast: If you would like to join a conversation about this or any other podcast then please note our next Wednesday Evening Zoom meeting will take place on 24th February at 19.30 GMT. The link will be published on this blog and in the notes to […]
“By the way . . .” — Being a few thoughts inspired by the Scottish novelist Neil M. Gunn on the kind of way those of liberal persuasion might seek to follow post COVID-19.
As usual, here are links to this week’s address/podcast. It’s called “By the way . . .” — Being a few thoughts inspired by the Scottish novelist Neil M. Gunn on the kind of way those of liberal persuasion might seek to follow post COVID-19. Text: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/02/by-way.html Podcast: If you would like to join a […]
The case for an Ecstatic Humanism
As usual, here are links to this week’s address/podcast which was, in part, written for the Cambridge U3A PHL 04: Humanism and Religion class on what it means to be “skeptics with naturally religious minds” or “open-minded ‘reverent’ humanists”. It’s called: The case for an Ecstatic Humanism You can read the text here: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-case-for-ecstatic-humanismbeing.html And […]
On the need to take even strokes—How Henry Bugbee’s naturalistic philosophy and some mindful meditation might help us get through the pandemic
Text: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/01/on-need-to-take-even-strokeshow-henry.html Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1378024/7208773 The next series of online, Zoom conversations will start on Wednesday 27th January. To give us more time to talk and to allow people to bring more general questions and thoughts to the table, the next couple of Wednesday conversations will not start by playing that week’s podcast but will go […]
An ass eats its hay and a gardener turns their spade in readiness for the New Year
Text: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/01/an-ass-eats-its-hay-and-gardener-turns.html Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1378024/7099813 The next series of online, Zoom conversations will start either at the end of January or the beginning of February 2021.
Accepting the problem posed by Christmas Day but without necessarily accepting the Christian solution
Greetings, and a Happy Christmas to you all.This is just a brief email to send a link this year’s Christmas Day address. Below you will find links to both the written text and the recorded, podcast version. Written text on my blog: Accepting the problem posed by Christmas Day but without necessarily accepting the Christian […]
Steps, not-steps, promises and the art of metaphysical hitchhiking
This week’s address can be read and listened to at the following links: “Steps, not-steps, promises and the art of metaphysical hitchhiking” 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. You can hear a podcaset/recording of this piece at the following […]
How Nietzsche helps us better prepare to celebrate Advent & Christmas
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. You can hear a podcaset/recording of this piece at the following […]