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What Our Principles Don’t Say

September 30, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsMary Mason
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From Empire to Earth Community Consciousness: The Great Shift, part II

September 23, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsSally Mabelle
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Can Unitarians Help to Save Our Planet?

September 16, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsJonathan Mason
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Power of the Positive?

September 9, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsChristine Whelan
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Flower Communion

September 2, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsKarn Cleary
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Karen Armstrong’s Charter for Compassion

August 19, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsDavid Fougere
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Karen Armstrong makes her TED prize wish The Charter for Compassion

Agnosticism

July 29, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsDawn Elvidge
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Transitive

July 15, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsChristine Whelan
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Jessie Heywood

July 8, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsWayne Facer
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Resilience – Bouncing Back from Adversity

June 10, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsAuckland Unitarian
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A Radical Religious Heritage

Auckland Unitarian Church and its Wider Connections
by John Maindonald

Today’s Unitarian (and Unitarian Universalist) churches are unusual because they do not expect members to share common doctrinal beliefs. Members join together because they share common values... Available as a PDF or ePub. Kindle and ePub versions also available at meBooks.

A Vision Splendid

The Influential Life of William Jellie
A British Unitarian in New Zealand

This book is essential reading for anyone who has an interest in New Zealand’s early history, Unitarianism, trade unionism, workers’ education and the fight for secular education. Find out more.

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