Andrew James Brown/Caute

Kiitsu—Returning-to-One

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Welcome to "Kiitsu—Returning-to-One" the podcast formally known as "Making Footprints Not Blueprints." My name is Andrew James Brown, and I’m the Minister of the Unitarian Church in Cambridge, UK. Knowing that full scope always eludes our grasp, that there is no finality of vision, that we have perceived nothing completely, and that, therefore, tomorrow a new walk is a new walk, I hope that, on occasion, you’ll find here some helpful expressions of a creative, inquiring, free and liberative religion and spirituality that will help and encourage you to journey through life, making footprints r...

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Andrew James Brown/Caute

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S07 Bonus Episode - "New Heaven" - Making Footprints Not Blueprints Theme Tune 11.11.2023 3:55

Send us Fan Mail It's just over three years since this podcast began and so, as a little celebration of that, and to say thank you to all of you who take the time to listen, here's the theme tune to the podcast. I wrote this piece of music many years ago as a birthday present for my wife, Susanna, without whom very little would be possible. It's been played live a fair few times in...

S07 #08 - Why “upholding the liberal Christian tradition" need not be the same thing as upholding Liberal Christianity - A thought for the day 05.11.2023 15:35

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/11/why-upholding-liberal-christian.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link: https://www.cambridgeunitarian....

S07 #07 - What a kite can tell us about the making of a modern, creative, free-spirituality or religion (“jiyū shūkyō”) - A thought for the day 28.10.2023 12:33

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/10/what-kite-can-tell-us-about-making-of.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link: https://www.cambridgeunit...

S07 #06 - It is human to have compassion for those in distress - A thought for the day 21.10.2023 10:05

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/10/it-is-human-to-have-compassion-for.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link: https://www.cambridgeunitari...

S07 #05 - What is still possible to do so that, at some point in the future, there might be a reconciliation and peace? - A thought for the day 14.10.2023 12:09

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/10/what-is-still-possible-to-do-so-that-at.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link: https://www.cambridgeun...

S07 #04 - Faith in one's own spiritual community and a creative, free religion or spirituality - A thought for the day 23.09.2023 12:09

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/09/faith-in-ones-own-spiritual-community.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Today, I’m going to finish walking through the Japanese twentieth-century advocate of a creative, free religion or spirituality...

S07 #03 - Faith in a universal cooperative society - A thought for the day 16.09.2023 9:19

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/09/faith-in-universal-cooperative-society.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. This is part of a series of blog/podcasts looking at the Japanese twentieth-century advocate of a creative, free religion or s...

S07 #02 - Faith in ourselves, our neighbours, and ourselves as neighbours - A thought for the day 09.09.2023 12:13

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/09/faith-in-ourselves-our-neighbours-and.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. All four pieces can be found at the following links: Introduction: A gentle call to adopt Imaoka Shin’ichirō’s creative, free...

S07 #01 - A gentle call to adopt Imaoka Shin’ichirō’s creative, free spirituality found in his “Creed of Life” - A thought for the day 02.09.2023 21:45

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-gentle-call-to-adopt-imaoka.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. All four pieces can be found at the following links: Introduction: A gentle call to adopt Imaoka Shin’ichirō’s creative, free spiritua...

S06 Bonus Episode - Only Conjugate! That is the whole of my sermon - (Final episode of Series 6) 29.07.2023 7:32

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/07/only-conjugate-that-is-whole-of-my.html And here's a link to its appearance in The Idioticon, published by the Triarchy Press Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written...

S06 #14 - On the need for liberals to recover their inner Indiana Jones - A thought for the day 19.07.2023 12:20

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/07/on-need-for-liberals-to-recover-their.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan...

S06 #15 - Living completely inside the movement of the event of the search - A thought for the day 19.07.2023 10:54

S06 #13 - A reply to an inquiring teenager . . . - A thought for the day 14.07.2023 14:04

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-reply-to-inquiring-teenager.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums)...

S06 #12 - Submerging the absurdity of death in gratitude for the wonder and wisdom of life - A thought for the day 08.07.2023 9:43

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/07/submerging-absurdity-of-death-in.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (dru...

S06 #11 - Religion in the non-religious world - A thought for the day 01.07.2023 12:38

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/07/religion-in-non-religious-world.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drum...

S06 #10 - Let us demand our own works and laws and worship - A thought for the day 24.06.2023 13:40

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/06/let-us-demand-our-own-works-and-laws.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan...

S06 #09 - To cultivate a mindful, restorative stillness, to hear beautiful music, and to engage together in a free and open conversation . . . - A thought for the day 17.06.2023 11:55

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/06/and-world-begins-under-mapon-need-to.html A pdf of the revised order of service mentioned in this episode can be found at this link. Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", writte...

S06 #08 - And a world begins under the map—On the need to make errors - A thought for the day 10.06.2023 10:25

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/06/and-world-begins-under-mapon-need-to.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan...

S06 #07 - Unplanned obsolescence and how, perhaps, to avoid it . . . - A thought for the day 31.05.2023 13:00

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/05/unplanned-obsolescence-and-how-perhaps.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. A collection of Tenko-san’s writings in English can be found in his book, “New Road to Ancient Truth” Ittōen: The Myths and...

S06 #06 - An interfaith, Buddhisto-Christian, consequence of Pentecost - A thought for the day 26.05.2023 12:29

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/05/an-interfaith-buddhisto-christian.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (dr...

S06 #05 - Not in the saving, but in the spending well of your precious life will you find your treasure, and there your heart will also be - A thought for the day 20.05.2023 10:27

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/05/not-in-saving-but-in-spending-well-of.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan...

S06 Bonus Episode - Free Religion is bowing to each other 19.05.2023 9:17

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/05/free-religion-is-bowing-to-each-othera.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morga...

S06 #04 - “Priests of stillness”—on first learning meditation from fenceposts along the Essex coast - A thought for the day 13.05.2023 11:24

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/05/priests-of-stillnesson-first-learning.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan...

S06 #03 - Circuses but no bread—a political-theological meditation offered on the weekend of the Coronation of King Charles III - A thought for the day 05.05.2023 13:01

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/05/circuses-but-no-breada-political.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (dru...

S06 #02 - God is a DJ - A thought for the day 29.04.2023 13:22

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/04/god-is-dj.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown...