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		<title>Spring Equinox Celebration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 06:27:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Service Leaders &#38; speakers: Barbara Thomborson, Karn Cleary Today we&#8217;ll celebrate the Spring. The Equinox happens on September 23rd. marking a moment of balance before we transition into summer with longer daylight hours. This is an opportunity to consider what we want to leave behind in the darkness of winter, and how we &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/spring-equinox-celebration/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Spring Equinox Celebration</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The Tipping Point</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2026 07:01:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...We celebrate the autumn equinox with a general focus on connecting with Nature at this special time of the year. Expect a short pagan ritual, a special altar, a bit more participation than usual, and a 2-part talk. Part 1 concerns contemplation of this special midpoint between days of light and night and &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/the-tipping-point/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Tipping Point</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Mental Health Awareness part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2026 03:29:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...In a&#160;continuation of the service done on Mental Health Awareness Week last October, this one focuses more on dealing with your own mental illness stigma and understanding mental health for anyone. Speaker &#38; Worship Leader:- Barbara Thomborson Read below, or download the PDF The personality disorder in you Last October I led a &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/mental-health-awareness-part-2/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Mental Health Awareness part 2</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Flower Communion 2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Oct 2025 03:40:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Speaker:-Barbara ThomborsonWorship Leader:- Karn Cleary Read below, or download the PDF Barbara Thomborson © 19 October 2025 This joyful service celebrates the life of our congregation and is our annual memorial to the life of its creator, Rev. Dr. Norbert Čapek. As minister to Unitarians in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he was a 20th century Unitarian &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/flower-communion-2025/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Flower Communion 2025</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Mental Health Awareness Week</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Thomborson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Oct 2025 04:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Speaker &#38; Worship Leader:-Barbara Thomborson Read below, or download the PDF Barbara Thomborson © 12 October 2025 Today’s service is brought to you by the first three Unitarian Principles:- This year, Mental Health Awareness Week (MHAW) has been aligned with the UN World Mental Health Day, which was last Friday, 10 Oct. The week &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/mental-health-awareness-week/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Mental Health Awareness Week</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Missing Services 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Thomborson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2025 04:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...To be added as time allows. “Animal Service – a small miracle” with Rachel Mackintosh &#38; Shirin Caldwell, from 5th October, text, video &#38; audio to come. “Entangled Bodies” with Ruth Irwin, from 28th September, text, video &#38; audio to come.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Neopagan Celebration of Autumn Equinox</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Thomborson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 06:32:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Worship Leader:- Barbara ThomborsonLeader for Dances of Universal Peace:- Laurie Ross Autumn equinox marks a day or two of equal amounts of daylight before nights are longer. What are the implications for us? What does &#8216;neopagan&#8217; mean? An interactive Service. Laurie Ross to lead in 2 Dances of Universal Peace. Video to come &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/a-neopagan-celebration-of-autumn-equinox/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Neopagan Celebration of Autumn Equinox</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>RUMInations on Ageing and Dying</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 06:05:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Speaker &#38; Worship Leader:-Barbara Thomborson Follow this shortcut to the bottom of the page for the&#160;various readings, videos, etc. shared in the service. Read below, or download the&#160;PDF Barbara Thomborson © 17 November 2024 Ageing and death are two timeless themes, universal to our human experience. Our culture’s near phobia about death has &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/ruminations-on-ageing-and-dying/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">RUMInations on Ageing and Dying</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Death Café Comes to the Unitarian Church</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Thomborson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 02:33:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Speaker &#38; Worship Leader:- Barbara Thomborson Death Café is an event where people discuss their understanding, thoughts, and feelings about death. Barbara Thomborson will facilitate the service to enable small group discussion of questions inspired by Death Café. They include practical considerations, experiences of death, grief and loss, and cultural aspects of death. &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/death-cafe-comes-to-the-unitarian-church/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Death Café Comes to the Unitarian Church</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Unitarians and New Zealand’s Choice to Die</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Thomborson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2024 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Speaker:- Mary PankoWorship Leader:- Barbara Thomborson Mary Panko, immediate past president of New Zealand’s&#160;End-of-Life Choice Society, is guest speaker on the End-of-Life Choice Act and its upcoming Parliamentary review. Barbara Thomborson, service leader, will share Unitarian Universalist background on this controversial topic. This service is a call to action. Follow this link to &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/unitarians-and-new-zealands-choice-to-die/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Unitarians and New Zealand’s Choice to Die</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>What Yule traditions can teach us</title>
		<link>https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/what-yule-traditions-can-teach-us/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Thomborson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Jun 2024 02:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Speaker:- Barbara ThomborsonWorship Leader:- Karn Cleary No recordings this week. Read below, or download the PDF Barbara Thomborson © 23 June 2024 Our Christmas traditions came from ancient Nordic and Celtic pagans. You already knew that, right? To this native of the northern hemisphere, New Zealanders use those traditions at the wrong time &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/what-yule-traditions-can-teach-us/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">What Yule traditions can teach us</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Spiritual Intelligence</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Thomborson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Speaker &#38; Worship Leader:- Barbara Thomborson Read below, or download the PDF Barbara Thomborson © 19 May 2024 Today’s service is brought to you by our third Principle, Acceptance of one another and encouragement to spiritual growth in our congregations, and our fourth Principle, A free and responsible search for truth and meaning. &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/spiritual-intelligence/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Spiritual Intelligence</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Your Divine Spark and Universal Love</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Thomborson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Jan 2015 06:13:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...by Barbara Thomborson Listen https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20150118BarbaraThomborson_YourDivineSpark.mp3 or download the MP3]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Modern Paganism</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Thomborson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2014 08:42:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...by Barbara Thomborson. Calling nature worshippers! The revival and/or creation of over 80 types of modern paganism shows modern Westerners’ desire to enjoy, revere and reconnect with natural mystical/spiritual powers. From Wiccanism, Celtic, ethnic, even Christo-Paganism to the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans, let’s take a brief look at modern paganism and celebrate &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/modern-paganism/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Modern Paganism</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Improving Mental Health Through Social Spirit</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Barbara Thomborson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2014 01:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...by Barbara Thomborson Listen https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20140817BarbaraThomborson_ImprovingMentalHealthThroughSocialSpirit.mp3 or download the MP3 Barbara was inspired to speak with us from the Mental Health Foundation’s recent study of users of mental health services in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Barbara has been a consultant with the Auckland DHB and a Consumer Advisor for local mental health services users. The service &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/improving-mental-health-through-social-spirit/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Improving Mental Health Through Social Spirit</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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