Welcome to “Making Footprints not Blueprints”, a regular podcast about matters philosophical and religious. My name is Andrew James Brown and, despite being an atheistically inclined free-thinker, I’m also the minister to the Unitarian Church in the city of Cambridge, UK.The title of this podcast is borrowed from the philosopher Herbert Fingarette (1921-2018) who, in his book, “The Self in Transformation” (Basic Books, New York 1963), offered us studies that were “outcomes rather than realis ...
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S07 #34 - Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - A thought for the day
12:38
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S07 #33 - To remind people of the creative, compassionate and cooperative, world-enhancing consequences of true, self-love - A thought for the day
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S07 #32 - To make a leap “from a world of doubting each other to a world of trusting each other” - A thought for the day
13:33
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S07 #31 - The true spirit of Pentecost — freely, creatively and rhizomatically educational, always and everywhere - A thought for the day
14:38
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S07 #30 - In praise of syncretism, the impurity of all religions, and the tumbling down of walls - A thought for the day
12:06
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S07 #29 - We are all manifestations of the Great Spirit, children of God, containing infinite treasures within ourselves - A thought for the day
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Send us a Text Message. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/04/nothing-belongs-to-anyone-all-things.html Please feel free to post any comments you have about this episode there. The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditat…
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S07 #27 - On wobbly Jenga towers, church governance, yeast, broken bread, communion, metamorphosis and a modern, free and inquiring religion - A thought for the day
12:20
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S07 #26 - Deep and again deep - The gateway to all mystery . . . A meditation on the total eclipse of the sun, 2024 - A thought for the day
13:31
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S07 #25 - Jjiyū Shūkyō (a creative, free spirituality) as a Silken Tent - A thought for the day
13:32
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S07 #24 - To touch again the finely woven, seamless cloth of joy & woe — an Easter Sunday meditation - A thought for the day
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S07 #23 - Bringing into being an ethics of motion — A meditation on John Ford’s 1950 western, “Wagon Master” - A thought for the day
13:49
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S07 #22 - It’s always possible to embody truth, even when, technically, we’re not able to tell it - A thought for the day
12:04
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S07 #21 - What an apprenticeship in tailoring might tell us about the making of a creative, free spirituality or religion . . . - A thought for the day
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S07 #18 - The sustaining sea and the need to take even strokes in these very uneven times - A thought for the day
10:40
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Send us a Text Message. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/01/how-new-are-you.html Please feel 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 l…
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Send us a Text Message. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-new-parable-of-mr-bates-vs-post.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation ca…
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Send us a Text Message. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/01/a-mystery-is-something-in-which-i-am.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation c…
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Send us a Text Message. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-quantum-manger-christmas-eve.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can b…
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S07 #13 - “The Eternal Buddha is no one else but the Eternal Christ” — A Christmas Day Meditation - A thought for the day
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S07 Bonus Episode - The Japanese Yuniterian [sic] tradition . . . or the dove that ventured outside
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S07 #11 - Beyond the binary of supply and demand — bringing citizens, business and industry together through a deep, but simple, creative, free spirituality - A thought for the day
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S07 #10 - Embracing climate adaptation positives in our settings in good company - A thought for the day
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S07 #09 - On freeing ourselves from being held captive by a particular picture of history - A thought for the day
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Send us a Text Message. It's just over three years since this podcast began and so, as a little celebration of that, and to say thank you to all of you who take the time to listen, here's the theme tune to the podcast. I wrote this piece of music many years ago as a birthday present for my wife, Susanna, without whom very little would be possible. …
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S07 #08 - Why “upholding the liberal Christian tradition" need not be the same thing as upholding Liberal Christianity - A thought for the day
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S07 #07 - What a kite can tell us about the making of a modern, creative, free-spirituality or religion (“jiyū shūkyō”) - A thought for the day
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Send us a Text Message. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/10/what-is-still-possible-to-do-so-that-at.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditatio…
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S07 #05 - What is still possible to do so that, at some point in the future, there might be a reconciliation and peace? - A thought for the day
12:09
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S07 #04 - Faith in one's own spiritual community and a creative, free religion or spirituality - A thought for the day
12:09
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Send us a Text Message. The 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/faith-in-universal-cooperative-society.html Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there. This is part of a series of blog/podcasts looking at the Japanese twe…
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S07 #02 - Faith in ourselves, our neighbours, and ourselves as neighbours - A thought for the day
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S07 #01 - A gentle call to adopt Imaoka Shin’ichirō’s creative, free spirituality found in his “Creed of Life” - A thought for the day
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S06 Bonus Episode - Only Conjugate! That is the whole of my sermon - (Final episode of Series 6)
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S06 #15 - Living completely inside the movement of the event of the search - A thought for the day
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S06 #14 - On the need for liberals to recover their inner Indiana Jones - A thought for the day
12:20
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Send us a Text Message. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/07/a-reply-to-inquiring-teenager.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 (pi…
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S06 #12 - Submerging the absurdity of death in gratitude for the wonder and wisdom of life - A thought for the day
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Send us a Text Message. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/07/religion-in-non-religious-world.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 (…
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Send us a Text Message. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/06/let-us-demand-our-own-works-and-laws.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 Ing…
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S06 #09 - To cultivate a mindful, restorative stillness, to hear beautiful music, and to engage together in a free and open conversation . . . - A thought for the day
11:55
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S06 #08 - And a world begins under the map—On the need to make errors - A thought for the day
10:25
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S06 #07 - Unplanned obsolescence and how, perhaps, to avoid it . . . - A thought for the day
13:00
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S06 #06 - An interfaith, Buddhisto-Christian, consequence of Pentecost - A thought for the day
12:29
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S06 #05 - Not in the saving, but in the spending well of your precious life will you find your treasure, and there your heart will also be - A thought for the day
10:27
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Send us a Text Message. The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2023/05/free-religion-is-bowing-to-each-othera.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 I…
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