The freedom to be tomorrow what we are not today “The newer testament—the Gospel according to this moment”
Becoming “Free Spirits” and “Archeologists of Morning” Andrew J. Brown Second Edition—2019 A revised version of a talk given at the “Sea of Faith” Annual Conference, Leicester University, July 2016 A INTRODUCTORY CAVEAT I publish this talk with one important caveat by borrowing some words by Herbert Fingarette (“The Self in Transformation”, Basic Books, New […]
The case for an Ecstatic Humanism—being “skeptics with naturally religious minds” or “open-minded ‘reverent’ humanists”
READING Some of you will recall that I recently introduced you to a passage by the philosopher Henry Bugbee, a key part of which used the word ‘ecstasis’. He wrote: But patience is not postponement, not falling away from on-goingness; it is the readying to step clean forth (ecstasis), and there ever comes a time […]
“More dangerous than an unanswered question is an unquestioned answer” — a meditation on the need to leave behind the old Unitarian doctrine that “God is One” and move from IS to FLOWING
READING: Guide by A. R. Ammons You cannot come to unity and remain material:in that perception is no perceiver: when you arriveyou have gone too far: at the Source you are in the mouth of Death: you cannot turn around inthe Absolute: there are no entrances or exits no precipitations of formsto use […]
What else can one to do in so-called dark times but offer the civil humanism of neighbourly love?
READING: From “Men in Dark Times” (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1970, pp.22-23) by Hannah Arendt (1906-1975): The question is how much reality must be retained even in a world become inhuman if humanity is not to be reduced to an empty phrase or a phantom. Or to put it another way, to what extent do we […]