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Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS07 Bonus Episode - A brief address on the occasion of my KikyoshikiSend us a textThe 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-brief-address-on-occasion-of-my.htmlPlease feel free 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.org/morning-service/ Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (d...2024-06-2213 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS07 #29 - We are all manifestations of the Great Spirit, children of God, containing infinite treasures within ourselves - A thought for the daySend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/05/we-are-all-manifestations-of-great.htmlPlease feel free 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.org/morning-service/ Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (d...2024-05-1013 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #17 - Recovering the courage to do the “vision thing”—a pressing issue facing all modern, liberal, free religious communities - A thought for the daySend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/01/recovering-courage-to-do-vision-thinga.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find t...2023-01-1409 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #16 - The epiphany of there being no “Epiphany” - A thought for the daySend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/01/the-epiphany-of-there-being-no-epiphany.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find t...2023-01-0908 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #15 - The human solidarity brought by the grace of being cold together—A meditation for New Year’s Day 2023Send us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-human-solidarity-brought-by-grace.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find t...2022-12-3105 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #14 - What the doubtful centipede can teach a liberal, free religion - A thought for the daySend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/12/what-doubtful-centipede-can-teach.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find t...2022-12-3009 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #13 - “The Eternal Buddha is no one else but the Eternal Christ.” Imaoka sensei’s “Three Christs”—A Christmas Day meditationSend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-eternal-buddha-is-no-one-else-but.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find t...2022-12-2409 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 Bonus Episode - A hidden, Hidden Christian, Christmas—An Advent meditationSend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/12/a-hidden-hidden-christian-christmasan.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find t...2022-12-1512 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 Bonus Episode - Christianity is basically an epic mistake . . . and the time is right to correct itSend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2018/06/what-comes-after-christianity-god-who.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find t...2022-12-1516 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #12 - Catching sight of the “world bud”—An Advent meditation - A thought for the daySend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/12/catching-sight-of-world-bud-advent.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find t...2022-12-1011 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #11 - It’s such a surprise because it’s just the beginning—an Advent meditation - A thought for the daySend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/11/its-such-surprise-because-its-just.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find t...2022-11-2610 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #10 - Seek simplicity and distrust it - A thought for the daySend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/11/seek-simplicity-and-distrust-it.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find t...2022-11-1809 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #09 - A nascent form of integral, liberal, free religious worship - A thought for the daySend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/11/a-nascent-form-of-integral-liberal-free.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find t...2022-11-0510 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #08 - A free religion radiant with a humanising light that the darkness will never overcome - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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/a-free-religion-radiant-with-humanising.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-10-2809 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #07 - Creating a liberal, free religion appropriate for the possible incoming sea of faith - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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/creating-liberal-free-religion.htmlPlease feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.When I gave this thought for the day live in the church I added two, ad-libbed, comments that I should note here. After saying that “the return of faith that is inevitably going to be both post-Christian and post-secular in character" I continued by saying: “Please note that I said p...2022-10-2112 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #06 - Tiny seeds and tiny words of love, freedom and justice. Scatter them. — Resisting the neoliberal onslaught - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-10-0810 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #05 - The reflection worth indulging doesn’t know where it is going—A fantasia on a passage by Henry Bugbee - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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/the-reflection-worth-indulging-doesnt.htmlPlease 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)You can take a quick preview of Henry Bugbee's wonderful book, The Inward Morning, at the following link:https://w...2022-10-0108 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #04 - The work of love, or how to resist in the dark ages - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-09-2209 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #03 - Why Jesus’ commandment that we “love one another” is always already new - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-09-1606 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #02 - Elizabeth Alexandra Mary, Elizabeth Regina, requiescat in pace - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-09-0907 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS05 #01 - A gentle plea for a Buddhisto-Christian process religion - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-09-0208 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 #11 (Final episode of Series 4) - Constancy and change are not opposed but inextricably connected - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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/constancy-and-change-are-not-opposed.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-07-3008 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 #10 - Kicking the can into hell?—A meditation written during the extreme heatwave in the UK - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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/kicking-can-into-hella-meditation.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-07-2210 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 #09 - That is why I am fed up; I take pity on ‘dust and ashes!’—speaking truth to power - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog...2022-07-1509 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 #08 - Look, there! what I mean by God! — God as event - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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/look-there-what-i-mean-by-god-god-as.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog...2022-07-0806 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 #07 - God does not exist . . . but God may happen - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-06-2907 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 #06 - Founding a true Commonwealth upon a real common wealth - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-06-2507 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 #05 - Not “a cost of living crisis” but a crisis of the neoliberal project - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-06-1707 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 #04 - A reasonable but passionate plea for the recovery (or rather, re-story-ation) of apocalyptic language within liberal religion - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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/a-reasonable-but-passionate-plea-for.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-06-1009 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 Bonus Episode - Slavoj Žižek on the Holy SpiritSend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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)The Radical Theology Seminar (you can take a peek at this excellent project at this link)My own Pentecost Sunday...2022-06-1006 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 #03 - Our responsibility in society—two readings for Pentecost - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-06-0406 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 Bonus Episode - The fiery rope across generations and geography—a meditation for PentecostSend us a textThe 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/the-fiery-rope-across-generations-and.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-06-0411 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 #02 - An anarcho-monarchist reflection at the start of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations - A thought for the daySend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/05/an-anarcho-monarchist-reflection-at.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-05-2708 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS04 #01 - Spiritual power beyond the known self—on the grace displayed by an unsecured (or secured) door - A thought for the daySend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/05/spiritual-power-beyond-known-self-on.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-05-2107 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #30 - Be ignited, or be gone — becoming freethinking mystics with hands - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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/be-ignited-or-be-gone-becoming.htmlPlease feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.Full details (and a representative recording) of the Service of Mindful Meditation mentioned in this episode can be found at the following link:https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/ A fuller unfolding of some of the key themes alluded to in this piece (and few others b...2022-04-2805 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #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 daySend us a textThe 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/i-have-seen-in-my-solitude-very-clear.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-04-2207 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #28 - L’chaim! — to life! A religion without God and an ethics without absolutes—A short Easter Sunday reflectionSend us a textThe 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/lchaim-to-life-religion-without-god-and.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-04-1607 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #27 - Broken Hosannas—Palm Sunday - A thought for the daySend us a textThe 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/broken-hosannasor-why-its-religiously.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-04-0708 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #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 daySend us a textThe 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/rock-or-sand-sand-or-rock-why-true.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-04-0107 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #25 - A meditation on a Pietà, written for a Mothering Sunday during a time of war - A thought for the daySend us a textA 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.htmlPlease 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. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)Thanks for listening. Just a r...2022-03-2507 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #24 - Information is fast and cheap. Knowledge is slow and expensive - A thought for the daySend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/03/information-is-fast-and-cheap-knowledge.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-03-1808 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 Bonus Episode - “Only a God can still save us”—a liberal religious confessionSend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/03/only-god-can-still-save-usa-liberal.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2022-03-1510 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #23 - “Please save my dolly” — on the sharing of experience and a politics of solidarity - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/03/please-save-my-dolly-on-sharing-of.htmlPlease 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)...2022-03-1207 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #22 - “Love the hell out of this world”—a further lesson to be learnt from the Russian invasion of the Ukraine - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/03/love-hell-out-of-this-worlda-further.htmlPlease 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)...2022-03-0407 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #21 - A political-theological ghost story — a lesson to be learnt from the Russian invasion of the Ukraine - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/02/a-political-theological-ghost-story.htmlPlease 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)...2022-02-2607 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #20 - The goat path ahead less travelled by . . . or Liberal religion back at the crossroads - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/02/the-goat-path-ahead-less-travelled-by.htmlPlease 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)...2022-02-1906 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #19 - Feeling the double movement of roots and fruits - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/02/feeling-double-movement-of-roots-and.htmlPlease 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)...2022-02-1206 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #18 - No one is ever alone if they can see the countless lives supporting them - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/02/no-one-is-ever-alone-if-they-can-see.htmlPlease 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)...2022-02-0405 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #17 - Faith does not consist in believing something wonderful . . . - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/01/faith-does-not-consist-in-believing.htmlPlease 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)...2022-01-2806 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #16 - The parable of the mischievously wise physics teacher - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/01/the-parable-of-mischievously-wise.htmlPlease 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)...2022-01-2105 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #15 - On baseball gloves and liberal religion - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/01/on-baseball-gloves-and-liberal-religion.htmlPlease 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)...2022-01-1405 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #14 - Gold, frankincense and myrrh or a teapot, an empty jam tin, and a cabbage leaf? A short, secular religious thought for Epiphany - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/01/gold-frankincense-and-myrrh-or-teapot.htmlPlease 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)...2022-01-0805 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #13 - John Keat’s ‘negative capability’ and COVID-19 - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2022/01/john-keats-negative-capability-and.htmlPlease 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)...2022-01-0107 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #12 - The New Being — A short, secular religious thought for Christmas DaySend us a textThe full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/12/the-new-being-short-secular-religious.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2021-12-2405 minMaking Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #11 - “The Oxen”—A brief Advent meditation on Thomas Hardy's poem - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/12/an-advent-meditation-on-thomas-hardys.htmlPlease 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)...2021-12-1806 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #10 - “Let it flow”—A brief Advent meditation on true-entrusting - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/12/let-it-flowa-brief-advent-meditation-on.htmlPlease 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)...2021-12-1105 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #09 - That-Which-Is-To-Come — An Advent meditation on Yeats’ poem, “The Second Coming” - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/12/that-which-is-to-come-short-advent.htmlPlease 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)...2021-12-0206 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #08 - Omnia migrant — a short, Advent meditation on the fundamental condition of movement and migration - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/11/omnia-migrant-short-advent-meditation.htmlPlease 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)...2021-11-2606 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #07 - Beautiful ruins: stronger by weakness, wiser we can become - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/11/beautiful-ruins-stronger-by-weakness.htmlPlease 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)...2021-11-2005 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #06 - Love your enemy — a reminder for Remembrance Sunday - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/11/love-your-enemy-reminder-for.htmlPlease 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)...2021-11-1205 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #05 - Lucifer the light-bringer - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/11/lucifer-light-bringer.htmlPlease 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)...2021-11-0605 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #04 - A Halloween ghost story for the start of the COP26 climate change meetings in Glasgow - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/10/a-halloween-ghost-story-for-start-of.htmlPlease 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)...2021-10-2905 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #03 - To clear our minds of selfish care - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/10/to-clear-our-minds-of-selfish-care.htmlPlease 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)...2021-10-2305 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #02 - The parable of the chipmunk—letting be, listening and seeing - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-parable-of-chipmunkletting-be.htmlPlease 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)...2021-10-1605 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS03 #01 - Levelling up? - A thought for the daySend us a textA short “thought for the day” offered to the Cambridge Unitarian Church as part of the Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/10/levelling-up.htmlPlease 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)...2021-10-0904 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsBonus Episode - Some personal reflections on the 20th anniversary of the events of September 11th, 2001Send us a textSome personal reflections on the 20th anniversary of the events of September 11th, 2001The 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder t...2021-09-1122 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsBonus Episode - On fans, thirteen blackbirds and the ineffable heart of all thingsSend us a textA 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.htmlPlease 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...2021-09-0307 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS02 #04 - The freedom to be tomorrow what we are not today—Part Five - A Short Postscript, June 2021Send us a textThe 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find there a brief biography, info about...2021-06-0208 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS02 #03 - The Freedom to be tomorrow what we are not today - Parts Three & Four - Becoming Archaeologists of Morning & men and women without a positionSend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2021-05-2224 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS02 #02 - The Freedom to be tomorrow what we are not today - Part Two - Becoming Free SpiritsSend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2021-05-1513 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS02 #01 - The Freedom to be tomorrow what we are not today - Part One - A beginningSend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog...2021-05-0819 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsBonus Episode - A mischevious spring meditation on Robert Frost’s poem “Mending Wall”Send us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find...2021-04-2420 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #27 - Adopting the role of umpire and letting the role of player go (End of Series One)Send us a textA 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://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/04/adopting-role-of-umpire-and-letting.htmlPlease feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.Music, "New Heaven", written b...2021-04-1718 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #26 - Cancelling my subscription to the Resurrection and truly living the death of GodSend us a textAn 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.htmlPlease 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...2021-04-0320 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #25 - Jesus or Barabbas, Carl Schmitt and Little Red Riding HoodSend us a textA 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.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of all these podcasts...2021-03-2723 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #24 - Firm ground is not available groundSend us a textWhy 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.htmlPlease 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)If...2021-03-2019 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #23 - The mother of matter is the matter of the mother - A poetic, supreme fiction for our ageSend us a textI 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 move from a basically supernaturalist world view to a more religiously naturalistic one. But I also offer it now in the context of the murder last week...2021-03-1323 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #22 - More speed? More strength? More consumption? More Things?Send us a textRevisiting 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.htmlPlease 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)2021-03-0620 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #21 - What learning to play jazz can tell us about the need for a liberal religious disciplineSend us a textThe 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.htmlPlease 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)If you would like to join a conversation about this podcast then our next Wednesday Evening Zoom meeting will take place...2021-02-2721 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #20 - Overcoming Christianity by incorporation and verwindungSend us a textHow 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?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/overcoming-christianity-by.htmlPlease feel to post...2021-02-2016 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #19 - Sappho’s time-scissored work—A new-materialist meditation for Valentine’s DaySend us a textA 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.htmlPlease 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)If you would like to join a conversation about this or any ot...2021-02-1316 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #18 - By the waySend us a textBeing 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.htmlPlease 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...2021-02-0618 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #17 - The case for an Ecstatic HumanismSend us a textA 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.htmlPlease 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...2021-01-3017 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #16 - "Little children, love one another", or how to bore the pants off your audienceSend us a textAn 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.htmlPlease 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...2021-01-2218 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsBonus Episode - A Service of Mindful MeditationSend us a textWelcome 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 general introduction (a quite understandable state of affairs!) then please note the service proper begins at exactly 2’ 15”. To get the most out of this rec...2021-01-1548 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #15 - On the need to take even strokesSend us a textHow 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.pdfYou can contact me by email by going to the contact page of the Cambridge Unitarian Church website:https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/contact/The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2021/01/on-need-to-take-even-strokeshow-henry.ht...2021-01-0918 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #14 - An ass eats its hay and a gardener turns their spade in readiness for the New Year (2021)Send us a textExploring 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.htmlPlease feel free 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...2021-01-0210 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #13 - Accepting the problem posed by Christmas Day but without necessarily accepting the Christian solutionSend us a textA 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/accepting-problem-posed-by-christmas.htmlPlease feel free to post any comments you have about this episode there.Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chr...2020-12-2313 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #12 - Steps, not-steps, promises and the art of metaphysical hitchhikingSend us a textSome 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.htmlPlease feel free 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)If y...2020-12-1219 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #011 - How Nietzsche helps us better prepare to celebrate Advent & ChristmasSend us a textAn 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-nietzsche-helps-us-better-prepare.htmlPlease feel free to post any comments you have about this episode there.Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and pl...2020-12-0519 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #10 - What was, must be testedSend us a textSome (positive) Christian atheist reflections on the seasons of Advent & Christmas drawing on the work of the twentieth-century German, Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch's 1972 book, "Atheism in Christianity". The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/11/what-was-must-be-tested-some-positive.htmlPlease feel free 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)2020-11-2816 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #09 - When is ruination not (quite) ruination?Send us a textSome Christian a/theist thoughts inspired by Heidegger and BonhoefferThe full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/11/when-is-ruination-not-quite.htmlPlease 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)If you would like to join a conversation about this or any other edition of this...2020-11-2120 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #08 - Live the questions nowSend us a textA few thoughts on how to live well in the In-Between of question and answerThe full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/11/live-questions-now-living-well-in-in.htmlPlease 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)A pdf copy of “Living in the Questions” by Ralph Norman Helv...2020-11-1417 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #07 - This monument is for the unknown good in our enemiesSend us a textA few thoughts on the idea of the "the Good" (or "God") in the context of Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day drawing on a poem by the American poet and pacifist, William Edgar Stafford (1914-1993), called “For the Unknown Enemy” (William Stafford: “The Way It Is—New & Selected Poems”, Graywolf Press, 1998, p. 217).The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/11/this-monument-is-for-unknown-good-in.htmlPlease feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.Music, "New Heaven", written by...2020-11-0816 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #06 - The Subtle Deer meets Jesus & SocratesSend us a textIn recent weeks I’ve been trying to show various ways by which, and why, I think both our own liberal, democratic European and North American culture in general — and its liberal religious, Judaeo-Christian traditions such as the Unitarian one to which I belong — can confidently reconnect with its two major religious and philosophical fountainheads, namely, the human Jesus and Socrates and can do this without recourse to traditional Christian or Platonic beliefs. The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-su...2020-10-3119 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #05 - Athens or Jerusalem or Athens & Jerusalem?Send us a textExistentialism & Liberal Religion - A look at John F. Hayward's way of bringing the Jewish/Christian and Greek traditions back into play in a way that might make sense to modern sceptical, but still religiously curious, liberals . . . The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/10/athens-or-jerusalem-or-athens-and.htmlPlease 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 M...2020-10-2519 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #04 - The Flight of the PhoenixSend us a textSome thoughts on one basic way we can prepare ourselves for a future, post- COVID-19, time. The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-flight-of-phoenix-or-what-can-be.htmlPlease 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)If you would like to join a conversation about this piece...2020-10-1716 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #03 - Short-circuiting the parable of the mustard seedSend us a textA meditation at Harvest-time giving thanks for all the children involved in the School Strike for Climate movement.The full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/10/short-circuiting-parable-of-mustard.htmlPlease 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 reminder that...2020-10-1013 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #02 - Socrates & Jesus vs the strongmen leadersSend us a textHow continuing to follow the wholly human Jesus and the Ancient Greek philosopher Socrates can help us resist the ideologies and blueprints of strongmen leadersThe full text of this podcast can be found at the following link:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/10/socrates-jesus-vs-strongmen-leaders.htmlPlease 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...2020-10-0315 min
Making Footprints Not BlueprintsS01 #01 - Cool ItSend us a textAn exploration of the need always to bring the cooling water of reason and empirical evidence to our increasingly over-heated world.The full text of this podcast is available here:https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2020/09/cool-it.htmlPlease 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 reminder that the texts of...2020-10-0317 min