Cambridge Unitarians

Weekly Update 21 February – 28 February

This update contains:

A link for the Morning Service of Mindful Meditation, Music & Conversation
A note about taking services during the minster’s sabbatical leave in April/May and August/September
A note about, and links for, the Thursday Zoom Kiitsu Kyōkai Seiza Meditation & Conversation Meeting, the next one of which takes place on February 27th at 10:30
A reminder that the next online session for the International Association for Religious Freedom’s Free Religion Institute on Imaoka Shin’ichirō’s understanding of “Free-Religion” is on Wednesday 26th February
A note about the Religious Naturalist Lent Course written by the important Religious Naturalist theologian and Unitarian, Henry Nelson Weiman that has been available to members of the congregation since 2014. This year, Lent starts on 5 March
Links to the minister’s address/podcast
A link to denominational news (Uni-News)

A link for the Morning Service of Mindful Meditation, Music & Conversation

Our regular Sunday Morning Service of Mindful Meditation, Music and Conversation starts at 10:30 and finishes at 11:30/11:40. The service this week is being led by Celia James, Sue Tombs and Elden Horner.

Should you wish to join this by Zoom, please use the following permanent link:

Join Sunday Morning Zoom Meeting

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/86882949446?pwd=kliXbdABEfbU8FjDMtNRNJ4Lr2lb5z.1

Meeting ID: 868 8294 9446
Passcode: 612407

A note about taking services during the minster’s sabbatical leave in April/May and August/September

Our minister, Andrew Brown, is on sabbatical leave this year during April/May and August/September. Part of this time will be spent in Budapest working with the President of the International Association for Religious Freedom (IARF), Prof. George M. Williams, to produce an English language edition of Imaoka Shin’ichirō’s essays, and to further develop the educational programme of the IARF’s “Free Religion Institute.” In connection with both of these things, Andrew will also be speaking with George at the Annual Meetings of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches in April.

To help make this possible, the Cambridge Unitarian Church’s “Future Directions” group are asking members of the congregation whether they can help to run our Sunday morning services over the coming months? At the moment, they are looking for volunteers to cover April and May.

Please use the following Google form to tell us which dates you are available to help, and which roles you are interested in:

https://forms.gle/1H4uVUaCopDCY6Jo7

Someone from the Future Directions group will be in touch soon with further information.

If you have any queries or difficulties using the form, please contact Jacqui (jacquicarnall@googlemail.com)

A note about the Thursday morning/evening Zoom Kiitsu Kyōkai Seiza Meditation & Conversation Meeting

The next Kiitsu Kyōkai meeting takes place on February 27th at 10:30. For more information, please click on either of the two following links:

https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/p/kiitsu-kyokai.html
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/evening-service/

A reminder that the next online session for the International Association for Religious Freedom’s Free Religion Institute on Imaoka Shin’ichirō’s understanding of “Free-Religion” is on Wednesday 26th February

For the Zoom link and the relevant texts, please click on the following link:

https://iarf.net/free-religion-institute-first-course/

A note about the Religious Naturalist Lent Course that has been available to the congregation online since 2014. This year, Lent starts on 5 March

This religious naturalist Lent series was first run for the Unitarian congregation in Cambridge in 2014 in which a group of us explored Henry Nelson Wieman’s thinking, and religious naturalism in general. In connection with this we thought it would be well worth working through Donald Szantho Harrington’s Unitarian, Lenten Manual from 1980 which he based upon some of Wieman’s work and that of his wife, Regina Westcott Wieman. Since then, the blog containing this course has available for anyone to work through it should they be so minded. Click on the following link to access the course.

https://memorialunitarian.blogspot.com

Links to the minister’s address/podcast:

The minister’s blog and podcast (which contain his weekly, Sunday “thought for the day” as well as other, occasional, pieces) can be found at the following links:

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