Skip to content

Auckland Unitarian Church

Love beyond belief
  • Home
    • Introduction
    • Checking Us Out
    • Being Friends
    • Making a Commitment
    • Privileges and Responsibilities of Membership
  • Services
    • Pre-school Children’s Circle Programme
    • Inclusive Values Education (Children’s Programme)
      • IVE News
    • Youth Unite
    • Sermon Archive
      • List
      • Detail
  • About Us
    • Where to find us
    • Our Minister
    • Management Committee
      • 2018 SGM
    • Activity Leaders
    • Our Building
    • Our Organ
      • Photos – Organ Arrival in Timaru
      • Photos – Organ Removal April 2022
      • Saving part of Auckland’s cultural history
    • Our History
      • The Communion of Unitarian Saints
        • Early Years
          • Arapohue
        • Social Justice
        • Arts
      • Some Notable NZ UUs.
  • Beliefs & Principles
    • Our Covenant
    • Our Principles
    • Our Symbol
  • Our Activities
    • Climate Action
    • Peace & Social Justice
    • Past Church Projects
      • Amnesty International Rapid Response Letters
      • Auckland City Mission
      • Craftivism
      • Dances of Universal Peace
      • Indian Students fighting for Justice
    • Living Wage Aotearoa New Zealand
    • Social, Spiritual, & Recreational
    • Standing on the Side of Love
    • Treaty of Waitangi / Te Tiriti O Waitangi
    • Understanding Islam
    • Media Coverage
  • Publications
    • Newsletter
      • Sign Up
      • Recent Issues
    • Sunday Talks / Random Musings
      • List
      • Detail
    • The History of Unitarian Universalism, in 15 Minutes or Less
    • We are Unitarian Universalists
    • Quest – journal of the Australia & New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association
    • Library
  • Calendar
    • Zoom Meeting Calendar
  • Contact Us
    • Where to find us
    • Ministry Team
    • Peace and Social Justice Group
    • Church Hire
    • Donations
    • Management Committee = everything else, Snailmail, Phone
  • UUs Elsewhere
    • A Unitarian Universalist Map of New Zealand
    • Unitarian Universalist Association – International

What does Unitarianism have to offer an Atheist?

May 6, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsVivienne Allen
Share this page...

Vivienne Allen

Listen

https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20120506VivienneAllen_WhatToOfferAthiests.mp3

or download the MP3

Getting Serious About Unitarian Universalism

April 29, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsChristine Whelan
Share this page...

Christine Whelan

Listen

https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20120429ChristineWhelan_GettingSerious.mp3

or download the MP3

by Scott Alexander, The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Vero Beach, Florida, USA.

Making the Ultimate Sacrifice

April 22, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsEric Stierna
Share this page...

Eric Stierna

Listen

https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20120422EricStierna_UltimateSacrifice.mp3″]

or download the MP3

Ethics of Eating

April 15, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsMarilynn McLachlan
Share this page...

Marilynn McLachlan

Listen

https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20120415MarilynnMcLachlan_EthicalEating.mp3

or download the MP3

Bedside Manners

April 8, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsJohn Graves
Share this page...

John Graves

Listen

https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20120408JohnGraves_BedsideManners.mp3

or download the MP3

by Forrest Church

Time and its incarnations

April 1, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsMichael Jones
Share this page...

Michael Jones

Listen

https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20120401MichaelJones_TimeAndItsIncarnations.mp3

or download the MP3

When I’m 64 – the quandry of an ageing New Zealander

March 25, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsChristine Whelan
Share this page...

Christine Whelan

Listen

https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20120325ChristineWhelan_WhenIAm64.mp3″]

or download the MP3

Chasing Fireflies on a Summer’s Night

March 11, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsMarilynn McLachlan
Share this page...

Marilynn McLachlan

Listen

https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20120311MarilynnMcLachlan_ChasingFireflies.mp3″]

or download the MP3

In the Absence of Anything, Maybe There’s “0”

February 26, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsMichael Jones
Share this page...

Michael Jones

Listen

https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20120226MichaelJones_InTheAbsenceOfAnything.mp3

or download the MP3

Resistance is Futile, Isn’t It?

February 19, 2012Sunday Talks / Random MusingsChristine Whelan
Share this page...

Christine Whelan

Listen

https://aucklandunitarian.org.nz/podcast/20120219ChristineWhelan_ResistanceIsFutile.mp3″]

or download the MP3

Posts navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Donate to Auckland Unitarian Congregation

  • Make your 2026-2027 pledge here
  • Make a donation to Auckland Unitarian Congregation
  • Make a gift to Auckland Unitarians in your Will

Latest Posts

  • Seeking Meaning
  • Post-colonial Aotearoa
  • Art and the ineffable
  • An ECO-Peace Economy for Aotearoa NZ
  • Matariki and new member welcome
  • Stories of the Universalist Church and Its People

Listen to our podcast

As well as being available on the relevant page of the website, edited audio of recent services is now available as a podcast. Search for 'Auckland Unitarians' in your favourite podcatcher, or paste in this link:- https://anchor.fm/s/69dd7f98/podcast/rss

Wiser Conversations, ‘Together at Home’

is a series of virtual conversations designed to help us reflect and respond to our new surreality; hosted by Derek Handley. For news of upcoming conversations go to:-
https://www.eventbrite.co.nz/o/aera-foundation-wiser-conversations-30103429190
Conversations are free to attend but registration is required.

Conversations are subsequently released as a podcast, find them on SPOTIFY  |  APPLE  |  ACAST or look up 'Wiser Conversations Together at Home with Derek Handley' on your favourite podcast app.

Post Categories

Display Sub-categories | close Sub-categories

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.

Subscribe to our weekly email Newsletter

Read the latest issue of

  • ANZUUA (Australia and New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association) Newsletter August 2026
  • Quest – quarterly journal of the Australia & New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association
  • The Beacon – monthly journal of the Melbourne Unitarian Church since the 1930s.
  • The SUN – Sydney Unitarian News – Bi-Monthly journal of Sydney Unitarian Church

Auckland UUs on the web

  • Auckland UUs on Facebook
  • Auckland UUs on Twitter
  • Auckland UUs on YouTube

Other UUs on the web

  • Australia and New Zealand Unitarian Universalist Association
  • Brisbane Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
  • Church of the Larger Fellowship – CLFUU
  • Church of the Larger Fellowship – CLFUU – YouTube Chanel
  • General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches (UK)
  • Harvard Square Library
  • Melbourne Unitarian Peace Memorial Church
  • Melbourne Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
  • South Australian Unitarians, Adelaide
  • Spirit of Life Unitarian Fellowship (Sydney)
  • Sydney Unitarian Church
  • The National Unitarian Fellowship (UK)
  • Unitarian Universalist Association (USA)
  • Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship
  • UU World – The weekly online magazine of the UUA (USA)
  • UU World at Vimeo
  • Wellington Unitarians

UU Biography

  • Cyprus Richard Mitchell (1881–1955) (DUUB)
  • Franklin Bradley (1831–1909) (DUUB)
  • Frederick Sinclaire (1881–1954) (ADB)
  • Frederick Sinclaire (1881–1954) (NZDB)
  • Harriet Russell Morison (1862-1925) (DNZB)
  • Hone Tuwhare (1922-2008) (DNZB)
  • Hone Tuwhare (1922-2008) (DUUB)
  • James Henry George Chapple (1865–1947) (DNZB)
  • John Cawte Beaglehole (1901–1971) (DNZB)
  • John Gammell (1856–1913) (DUUB)
  • Lincoln Ashton Gribble (1930–2012) (DUUB)
  • Owen Glenbrook Hansen (1923-2006) (DUUB)
  • Sir Robert Stout (1844–1930) (DNZB)
  • Sir Robert Stout (1844–1930) (DUUB)
  • Thomas Fyshe Palmer (1747-1802) (DUUB)
  • William Joseph McEldowney (1889-1967) (DUUB)
Living Wage Employer
Living Wage Employer
Proudly powered by WordPress | © 2011 - 2026 Auckland Unitarian Church