Some women feel excluded by language of worship which portrays God only as father and people only as men.
The issue of exclusive, sexist language is important. It is not trivial. So, what are we to do?
A talk on the topic by the Rev Geoff Usher can be found here.
Charles Darwin died on the 19th of Aril, 1882. He did not invent the concept of evolution. There were many people before him, Christians and Non-Chistians, who held ideas of evolution in some form. What Darwin did was to present a theory explaining evolution through natural selection, and to present it on the basis of a solid sub-structure of observed fact.
The great philosopher of Darwinism was Herbert Spencer ( 1820 – 1903) who defined evolution as “a transformation of an indefinite incoherent homogeneity into a definite coherent heterogeneity, this being accomplished through a long series of differentiations and integrations.”
The whole of this talk by the Rev Geoff Usher can be found here.
For mainstream Christians, Jesus is the central event of history. He represents the culmination of God’s activity. For most Unitarians, however, Jesus is only one exemplar, one teacher, one incarnation of a divine/ human creativity.
To read the whole of this talk by the Rev Geoff Usher, click here
… The tradition of New Year Resolutions has a very old history in this Jewish
tradition.
Sometimes our New Year Resolutions produce little successes along the
way, but all too often we return to being the same as we were; we slide
back to being very much like the character we used to be. We yearn for
transformation; we want a better and more fulfilling life; we pray for
serenity, strength and compassion. But nothing seems to happen.
The entire talk by the Rev Geoff Usher on New Year’s resolutions can be found here.