To deepen into silence in the company of others can be a very powerful experience. Give yourself permission to pause – calm your mind, body and spirit, recuperate and boost your vitality, explore deep inner work and develop self awareness.

Led by Grainne Gordon. No meditation experience necessary. All welcome.

A prayer by Powell Davies : ‘When we remember, O God, those we have loved and lost, help us to remember also how great a thing is loving, and that not to have loved would have been a far greater loss.’

Join us for Remembrance Sunday as we quietly recall our own times of loss.

Led by Tom Grimshaw. All welcome.

Open to all Unitarian members and attenders
This group will offer those attending space to explore 2 things:
• Our roots, in family and elsewhere: how they have influenced our arrival at the Unitarian Church?
• Our wings – how do we grow them, and where would we like them to take us? In other words, are we being called forward? Can we help to spark one another’s courage to step into or continue in the life we know would be truest to us?

• Meditations
• Group sharing
• Personal Journal work
• Discussion
• Creation?

Each session will contain one or more of the elements above – and other ideas that the group itself may form. Cups of tea are included and this is intended to be a safe and convivial and sacred space to explore our personal spiritual histories and journeys, our attachment to the Unitarian tradition (as a member or attender we already have some kind of attachment) and our aspirations. Creation is an open possibility, not a requirement – for poems or songs or paintings or other forms of expression that may naturally arise in the progress of the group.

This is session 1 of 6.

Led by Hilary Bichovsky. All welcome.

 

Not we or one, say I and thou (you)
not there and then stay here and now
Don’t use ‘but’ say ‘and’
Don’t ask ‘why’ ask ‘how’

Join us as Harry Fleming leads us in exploring a gnostic approach to spirituality through participatory exercises, interactions, games and gnostically revised songs.
There will be time for feedback and responses to the exercises and games, but this is not a discussion group so please leave your philosophies and theologies at home. This is about the people attending, what they bring and God.

This is the fourth session of four.
All welcome.

Join us as Larry Bode explores the common interests and values of Unitarians and Humanists, and discusses some of the activities of Humanists UK as it works for a fairer society.  Larry is an active member of both the Unitarians and Humanists UK.  All welcome.

 

A series of three talks by Mike Rutter: a gentle overview of the origins of Unitarian theological ideas in the period of the Reformation in 16th and 17th Century Europe. We shall look at the impact of the Renaissance on the European-wide awakening of religious thought after Luther, and also at the role of Isaac Newton and his ideas in giving rise to the modern world. The tone will be popular rather than academic, concerned with understanding the way beliefs developed rather than with a detailed chronology. No previous knowledge of Unitarianism is required.

Each meeting will include a 30 – 40 minutes talk, followed by a break for refreshments and then a general discussion period.

November 2nd: “New Worlds for Old” – the fall of Byzantium, printing, Columbus, Bruno and Galileo

All welcome.