David is a member of Auckland Unitarian Church, and also Public relations officer for the Secular Education Network.
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David Hines © 4 December 2016
Good morning. I’d like to thank you all and Clay Nelson especially for inviting me to speak about human rights, and how it affects our state schools. Continue reading Celebrating Human Rights: Freedom from Religion
Treaty Educator, Treaty Resource Centre – He Puna Mātauranga o Te Tiriti
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Opening Words are Race relations by Glenn Colquhoun.
Christine Herzog © 27 November 2016
Vice-president, New Zealand Council of Trade Unions – Te Kauae Kaimahi,
National Director of Organising Etū, New Zealand’s largest private sector union.
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Opening Words are Kindness by Naomi Shihab Nye.
Peace and Social Justice Group, Article in Quest (scroll to P4) re Samoan Dyslexia Aid Project.
Rachel Mackintosh © 20 November 2016
“Nothing wondrous can come in this world unless it rests on the shoulders of kindness.”
This is a quote from the Barbara Kingsolver novel, The Lacuna. The context is Leon Trotsky’s last day, in Mexico City, where he was living in exile, studying, writing and being part of a local community. Continue reading A Brave and Startling Truth: Solidarity after Helen Kelly
No text this week.
KJPhoenix Joy © 13 November 2016
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Rev. Clay Nelson © 6 November 2016
Twenty-six years ago Dr Seuss published his last book and it became an instant success as a graduation gift — Oh, the Places You’ll Go!
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Rev. Clay Nelson © 30 October 2016 Continue reading El Dia de Los Muertos
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Rev. Clay Nelson © 23 October 2016
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Rev. Clay Nelson © 16 October 2016
I gave up having a Plan A or B or even C a long time ago. The old joke is they just make God laugh anyway. But the real reason is repeatedly in my life I have watched myself travel from point to point without benefit of an itinerary and yet get to some fascinating and unexpected places that seem unrelated on the surface, but which, in retrospect, were all connected. With the advantage of hindsight, they looked like a well-thought out plan or at least that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. In truth, each place led to a new place I could not have booked in advance. None were foreseen or could have been planned for.
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Michael Jones, Willem Laman-Trip © 9 October 2016
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Rev. Clay Nelson © 2 October 2016
Being grounded doesn’t always have the best connotation, especially if you are a teenager being restricted after misbehaviour, but in religious terms it captures the spiritual revolution that is transforming religion. Last week, in discussing the evolution of Unitarianism, I touched on this revolution when I said many of today’s Unitarians are rejecting Kant’s “religion within the bounds of reason alone” as lacking any mystical or spiritual dimension. They are embracing what has been described as “ecstatic naturalism.” They seek an experience that is beyond the capacity of words to describe, except perhaps in poetry and music. Continue reading Being Grounded