Kiitsu—Returning-to-One

Send us Fan Mail Some personal reflections on the 20th anniversary of the events of September 11th, 2001 The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/09/some-personal-reflections-on-twentieth.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written...

Send us Fan Mail A short meditation inspired by a well-known Zen story concerning a fan and Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/09/on-fans-thirteen-blackbirds-and.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episo...

Send us Fan Mail The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: ******** 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 (double bass) Thanks for listening. Just a remi...

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/2021/05/the-freedom-to-be-tomorrow-what-we-are_22.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 Mo...

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/2021/05/the-freedom-to-be-tomorrow-what-we-are_15.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 Mo...

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/2021/05/the-freedom-to-be-tomorrow-what-we-are.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...

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/2021/04/a-mischevious-spring-meditation-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 Morgan (d...

Send us Fan Mail A few thoughts on why, as a minister of a small liberal-religious community, I need to stop being a player and adopt, instead, the role of umpire. In this piece, I draw considerably, and gratefully, on some of  Michael Oakeshott's ideas about conversation. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbro...

Send us Fan Mail An exploration of Christian atheism that makes some connections with the Kyoto School of Buddhism via the theology and philosophy of Thomas J. J. Altizer and Don Cupitt. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/04/cancelling-my-subscription-to.html Please feel to post any comments...

Send us Fan Mail A cautionary tale for twenty-first-century liberals. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/03/firm-ground-is-not-available-ground-why.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by...

Send us Fan Mail Why building one’s religion and philosophy on sand rather than rock might actually be a very good idea. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/03/firm-ground-is-not-available-ground-why.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music, "New Heav...

Send us Fan Mail I originally wrote this piece for Mothering Sunday back in March 2019 for the congregation of the Cambridge Unitarian Church and I offer it once again because I still think it says something useful and highly relevant to a liberal religious tradition which, at least in part, is willing to contemplate (if not always then attempt to answer) the question of how it might be able to mo...

Send us Fan Mail Revisiting a meditation on love in the time of Coronavirus drawing on the work of the Italian philosopher, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/03/more-speed-more-strength-more.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode th...

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/2021/02/what-learning-to-play-jazz-can-tell-us.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...

Send us Fan Mail How might one best overcome, and move beyond, many of the problematic, supernaturalistic theological ideas which still attach themselves to our culture’s inherited, underlying religious tradition, namely Christianity; ideas which, often in hidden and obscure ways, continue to influence our European and North American culture’s worst, but also very best, ways of being in the world?...

Send us Fan Mail A new-materialist meditation for Valentine’s Day. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/02/sapphos-time-scissored-worka-new.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 Ingh...

Send us Fan Mail 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. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/02/by-way.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music,...

Send us Fan Mail A talk, in part written for the Cambridge U3A   PHL 04: Humanism and Religion class, on what it means to be be “skeptics with naturally religious minds” or “open-minded ‘reverent’ humanists”. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-case-for-ecstatic-humanismbeing.html Pleas...

Send us Fan Mail An exploration of a few of the problems faced when trying to reiterate the important, in fact central, teaching of loving one another. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/01/little-children-love-one-another-or-how.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episo...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to this bonus edition of the “Making Footprints Not Blueprints podcast” which is a supplement to Episode 15. It is nothing more, nor any less, than a representative recording of the service of mindful mediation I offer the Cambridge Unitarian Church, UK, each week. For those of you who end up listening to this recording more than once, and who no longer wish to hear my gen...

Send us Fan Mail How Henry Bugbee’s naturalistic philosophy and some mindful meditation might help us get through the pandemic. The service of mindful meditation found in this piece can be downloaded at this link: https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Evening-Service.pdf You can contact me by email by going to the contact page of the Cambridge Unitarian Church website: http...

Send us Fan Mail Exploring the need for liberals to commit to some kind of actual, ethical, religious and philosophical practice, especially during times of crisis such as the one through which, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all passing. The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/01/an-ass-eats-its-hay-and-gardener-turns.html Ple...

Send us Fan Mail A Christmas Day meditation on the question of how our everyday world of individual, finite things, including ourselves, relates to the whole. For this piece I gratefully draw upon two, twentieth-century  Czech thinkers, Erazim Kohák (1933-2020) and Jan Patočka (1907-1977) . The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/12/...

Send us Fan Mail 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.   The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/12/steps-not-steps-promises-and-art-of.html Please feel free to post any comments you have about this episode there. Music,...

Send us Fan Mail 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.    The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/12/how-n...