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		<title>Resurrection 2026?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Mackintosh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:07:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...How do we continue to love now? Speaker &#38; Worship Leader:- Rachel Mackintosh Read below, or download the PDF Rachel Mackintosh © 5 April 2026 In the Monty Python film, The Life of Brian, set in the time of Jesus, Brian’s mother confesses to Brian that his father was not Jewish, but was, &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/resurrection-2026/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Resurrection 2026?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Love beyond the Threshold</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 04:28:34 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Speaker:- Keola WhittakerWorship Leader:- Rachel Mackintosh Join us this Easter Sunday as Keola Whittaker, currently in his second year of the Starr King School for the Ministry, Oakland, CA, USA, explores the profound metaphor of resurrection through the lens of our Southern Hemisphere autumn. He examines the boundary between life and death, and &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/love-beyond-the-threshold/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Love beyond the Threshold</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>The empty tomb: holding lament in one handand joy in the other</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Mackintosh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2024 05:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Speaker &#38; Worship Leader:- Rachel Mackintosh Read below, or download the PDF Follow this shortcut to the bottom of the page for the various readings, videos, etc. shared in the service. Rachel Mackintosh © 31 March 2024 I preached in this church last year on Easter Sunday. My theme was resurrection — I &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/the-empty-tomb-holding-lament-in-one-hand-and-joy-in-the-other/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The empty tomb: holding lament in one hand<br>and joy in the other</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>A wrinkle in time: the Easter miracle?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Rachel Mackintosh]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2023 04:07:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Speaker &#38; Worship Leader:- Rachel Mackintosh Audio to come Read below or download the PDF Follow this shortcut to the bottom of the page for the various readings, videos, etc. shared in the service. Rachel Mackintosh © 9th April 2023 At the risk of being grandiose, I begin this sermon a bit like &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/a-wrinkle-in-time-the-easter-miracle/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A wrinkle in time: the Easter miracle?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Easter on trial</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clay Nelson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Apr 2022 01:10:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...with Rev. Clay Nelson Read below, or download the PDF Follow this shortcut to the bottom of the page for the various readings, videos, etc. shared in the service. Clay Nelson © 17 April 2022 Sherlock Holmes, the master of deductive reasoning, tells us in&#160;The Sign of the Four:&#160;“When you have eliminated the &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/easter-on-trial/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Easter on trial</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Are we the better plan?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clay Nelson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Apr 2022 02:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...with Rev. Clay Nelson Read below, or download the PDF Follow this shortcut to the bottom of the page for the various readings, videos, etc. shared in the service. Clay Nelson © 10 April 2022 The Christian world is beginning Holy Week this week. I know that because it always begins the Sunday &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/are-we-the-better-plan/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Are we the better plan?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Whānau day &#8211; Easter 2021</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Auckland Unitarian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2021 08:24:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...We have decided to hold regular Whanau/Family Gathering Days throughoutthe year and invite you to join us. Unitarian spirituality is all aboutconnection and building community. Our first Whanau Day was held this Easter Sunday, 4 April 2021 (see slideshow below). The whole congregation were invited to a nearby member&#8217;s home and in the &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/whanau-day-easter-2021/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Whānau day &#8211; Easter 2021</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Emptiness of Easter</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clay Nelson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Apr 2021 23:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...with Rev. Clay Nelson Read below, or download the PDF Follow this shortcut to the bottom of the page for the&#160;various readings, videos, etc. shared in the service. Clay Nelson © 4 April 2021 There is no getting around it. Our rationalist faith doesn’t “get” Easter. We get Christmas. Jesus was born. We &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/the-emptiness-of-easter/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">The Emptiness of Easter</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>A Unitarian Easter</title>
		<link>https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/a-unitarian-easter/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clay Nelson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Apr 2020 00:42:35 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...With Rev. Clay Nelson Read below, or download the PDF Follow this shortcut to the bottom of the page for the&#160;Opening &#38; Closing Words, Spirit of Life, Postlude, Links shared during the chat. Clay Nelson © 12 April 2020 One of the blessings of now being a UU minister, having moved on from &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/a-unitarian-easter/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">A Unitarian Easter</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Roots hold me close</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clay Nelson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2019 06:31:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...with Rev. Clay Nelson Due to a brief illness no new talk was prepared for this week, you can find the text of this talk at Roots and Wings of a Unitarian Lent.]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Can a Unitarian be resurrected?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clay Nelson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2019 03:45:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...with Rev. Clay Nelson Read below or download the PDF Opening Words are We Don&#8217;t Know What Happened by Unitarian minister Daniel Budd. Clay Nelson © 21 April 2019 I may have told this story on Easter before, but the Easter story has been recounted a couple of thousand times. So, I have &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/can-a-unitarian-be-resurrected/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Can a Unitarian be resurrected?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>April Fools Arise!</title>
		<link>https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/april-fools-arise/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clay Nelson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Apr 2018 03:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...with Rev. Clay Nelson Watch Listen https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20180401_RevClayNelson_AprilFoolsArise.mp3 or download the MP3 Read below or download the PDF Rev. Clay Nelson © 1st April 2018 In one of my last Easter Day sermons at St Matthew’s I opened with how difficult I found preaching on the Day of Resurrection in a Christian context: Look &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/april-fools-arise/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">April Fools Arise!</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Ignore Easter? So tempting.</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clay Nelson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Apr 2017 23:26:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Rev. Clay Nelson Watch Listen https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20170416_RevClayNelson_IgnoreEasterSoTempting.mp3 or download the MP3 or download the PDF Rev. clay Nelson © 16 Apil 2017 When I was in seminary, every seminarian was assigned a parish to do field work in for two years. My second Easter, I was given the opportunity to preach on Easter Sunday. &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/ignore-easter-so-tempting/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Ignore Easter? So tempting.</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Roots and Wings of a Unitarian Lent</title>
		<link>https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/roots-and-wings-of-a-unitarian-lent/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clay Nelson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2017 06:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...Rev. Clay Nelson Watch Listen https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20170402_RevCLayNelson_RootsAndWingsOfAUnitarianLent.mp3 or download the MP3 or download the PDF Rev. clay Nelson © 2 Apil 2017 Each week we sing “Roots hold me close; wings set me free.” It is the Spirit of Life residing within each of us. The image resonates with a truth so deeply entrenched &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/roots-and-wings-of-a-unitarian-lent/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Roots and Wings of a Unitarian Lent</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Reality versus Illusion: How do we know which is which?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clay Nelson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Mar 2016 03:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...By Rev. Clay Nelson Listen https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20160327RevClayNelson_BothSidesNow.mp3 or download the MP3 or download the PDF of this page. Rev. Clay Nelson © 27 March 2016 One of the few difficulties I’ve had as a refugee from the Northern Hemisphere is celebrating Easter with autumn’s chrysanthemums and not spring’s lilies. It was ingrained into me &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/reality-versus-illusion-how-do-we-know-which-is-which/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Reality versus Illusion: How do we know which is which?</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
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		<title>Easter? Bah Humbug!</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Clay Nelson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2015 06:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Share this page...By Rev. Clay Nelson. Download the PDF of this page. Clay Nelson © 5 April 2015 Last year, in my former life, I would have greeted you this morning with the ancient Easter Acclamation: “Alleluia. Christ is risen.” My Anglican congregation would have responded enthusiastically, “He is risen indeed. Alleluia”I suspect if I &#8230; <a href="https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/easter-bah-humbug/" class="more-link">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">Easter? Bah Humbug!</span> <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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