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She was born on 28 July 1866, at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington, London. Both her parents were descended from wealthy families who had made their fortunes in the Lancashire cotton industry. Her brother, born five years later , was sent off to boarding school, so her childhood was essentially solitary , dull and leisured. She never went to school, but spent most of her time in the nursery of the large, dark, stuffy house – once described by a cousin as “a dark Victorian mausoleum, complete with aspidistras”.

Can you guess about whom Rev. Geoff Usher is speaking?

The full address can viewed here.

Tragedies abound, world peace seems a lost cause, selfish aggression is rampant. What do we do?

Ginna Hastings gives us some good advice. The full address can be found here.

This is the second of two talks given by Rev. Geoff Usher on our flaming chalice, bringing the story up to  modern times. You  can read the complete sermon here here

This is the first of two talks given by the Rev. Geoff Usher about our symbol, the flaming chalice.

The Unitarian symbol is usually referred to as the “Flaming Chalice”. Some people prefer the name “The Chalice and Flame”.
It comes in many sizes and shapes. In Britain, what is often called the “chunky chalice” was adopted by the person who was in charge of General Assembly publications in the 1960s. It is the one with which I was most familiar, and it was the one which I used on my own stationery and for the Sydney Unitarian Church and the Australian and New Zealand Unitarian Association.

The complete sermon can be found here.

This article is adapted from the sermons which the Rev. Geoff Usher gave at the Spirit of Life Unitarian Fellowship, Kirribilli, on Sundays 29 February and 13 March 2016. They were based on an article by Waldemar Argow, who was a long-serving, distinguished and influential 20 th century American Unitarian Universalist Minister. Dr Argow’s article was itself based on a sermon which he preached in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1983.

The complete article can be viewed here.