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

Episodes

S05 #06 - Tiny seeds and tiny words of love, freedom and justice. Scatter them. — Resisting the neoliberal onslaught - A thought for the day 08.10.2022 10:42

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/2022/10/tiny-seeds-and-tiny-words-of-love.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...

S05 #05 - The reflection worth indulging doesn’t know where it is going—A fantasia on a passage by Henry Bugbee - A thought for the day 01.10.2022 8:40

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S05 #04 - The work of love, or how to resist in the dark ages - A thought for the day 22.09.2022 9:15

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/2022/09/the-work-of-love-or-how-to-resist-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...

S05 #03 - Why Jesus’ commandment that we “love one another” is always already new - A thought for the day 16.09.2022 6:56

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/2022/09/why-jesus-commandment-that-we-love-one.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...

S05 #02 - Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, Elizabeth Regina, requiescat in pace - A thought for the day 09.09.2022 7:02

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/2022/09/elizabeth-alexandra-mary-elizabeth.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 (d...

S05 #01 - A gentle plea for a Buddhisto-Christian process religion - A thought for the day 02.09.2022 8:07

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/2022/09/a-gentle-plea-for-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...

S04 #11 (Final episode of Series 4) - Constancy and change are not opposed but inextricably connected - A thought for the day 30.07.2022 8:13

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S04 #10 - Kicking the can into hell?—A meditation written during the extreme heatwave in the UK - A thought for the day 22.07.2022 10:45

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S04 #09 - That is why I am fed up; I take pity on ‘dust and ashes!’—speaking truth to power - A thought for the day 15.07.2022 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/2022/07/that-is-why-i-am-fed-up-i-take-pity-on.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...

S04 #08 - Look, there! what I mean by God! — God as event - A thought for the day 08.07.2022 6:34

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S04 #07 - God does not exist . . . but God may happen - A thought for the day 29.06.2022 7:12

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/2022/04/god-does-not-exist-but-god-may-happen.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...

S04 #06 - Founding a true Commonwealth upon a real common wealth - A thought for the day 25.06.2022 7:54

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/2022/06/founding-true-commonwealth-upon-real.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...

S04 #05 - Not “a cost of living crisis” but a crisis of the neoliberal project - A thought for the day 17.06.2022 7:48

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/2022/06/not-cost-of-living-crisis-but-crisis-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 Morg...

S04 #04 - A reasonable but passionate plea for the recovery (or rather, re-story-ation) of apocalyptic language within liberal religion - A thought for the day 10.06.2022 9:49

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S04 Bonus Episode - Slavoj Žižek on the Holy Spirit 10.06.2022 6:55

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/2022/06/slavoj-zizek-on-holy-spirit.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) a...

S04 #03 - Our responsibility in society—two readings for Pentecost - A thought for the day 04.06.2022 6:55

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/2022/06/our-responsibility-in-societytwo.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...

S04 Bonus Episode - The fiery rope across generations and geography—a meditation for Pentecost 04.06.2022 11:34

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S04 #02 - An anarcho-monarchist reflection at the start of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations - A thought for the day 27.05.2022 8:35

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S04 #01 - Spiritual power beyond the known self—on the grace displayed by an unsecured (or secured) door - A thought for the day 21.05.2022 7:49

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S03 #30 - Be ignited, or be gone — becoming freethinking mystics with hands - A thought for the day 28.04.2022 5:24

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S03 #29 - "I have seen in my solitude very clear things that are not true" — on living the liberal religious life TOGETHER - A thought for the day 22.04.2022 7:02

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S03 #28 - L’chaim! — to life! A religion without God and an ethics without absolutes—A short Easter Sunday reflection 16.04.2022 7:47

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S03 #27 - Broken Hosannas—Palm Sunday - A thought for the day 07.04.2022 8:04

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S03 #26 - Rock or sand, sand or rock? - why the true foundation of the spiritual life might not be what you think it is . . . - A thought for the day 01.04.2022 7:29

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S03 #25 - A meditation on a Pietà, written for a Mothering Sunday during a time of war - A thought for the day 25.03.2022 7:02

Send us Fan Mail A picture of the Pietà mentioned in this podcast and the full text can be found at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/03/a-meditation-on-pieta-written-for.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. The text alone can be found, as always, in the transcript of this edition. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brow...