Making Footprints Not Blueprints
Welcome to “Making Footprints not Blueprints”, a regular podcast about matters philosophical and religious. My name is Andrew James Brown and, despite being an atheistically inclined free-thinker, I’m also the minister to the Unitarian Church in the city of Cambridge, UK.The title of this podcast is borrowed from the philosopher Herbert Fingarette (1921-2018) who, in his book, “The Self in Transformation” (Basic Books, New York 1963), offered us studies that were “outcomes rather than realised objectives” which were offered to the reader as an encouragement to make “intellectual footprints, not blueprints.” This podcast tries to proceed in a similar fashion and takes...
S07 #26 - Deep and again deep - The gateway to all mystery . . . A meditation on the total eclipse of the sun, 2024 - A thought for the day
The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/04/deep-and-again-deep-gateway-to-all.html
Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.
The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link:
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/
Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)
Thanks for listening. Ju...
S07 #25 - Jjiyū Shūkyō (a creative, free spirituality) as a Silken Tent - A thought for the day
The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/04/jjiyu-shukyo-creative-free-spirituality.html
Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.
The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link:
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/
Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)
Thanks for listening. Ju...
S07 #24 - To touch again the finely woven, seamless cloth of joy & woe — an Easter Sunday meditation - A thought for the day
The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/03/to-touch-again-finely-woven-seamless.html
Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.
The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link:
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/
Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)
Thanks for listening. Ju...
S07 #23 - Bringing into being an ethics of motion — A meditation on John Ford’s 1950 western, “Wagon Master” - A thought for the day
The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/03/an-ethics-of-motion-meditation-on-john.html
Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.
The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link:
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/
Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)
Thanks for listening. Ju...
S07 #22 - It’s always possible to embody truth, even when, technically, we’re not able to tell it - A thought for the day
The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/03/its-always-possible-to-embody-truth.html
Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.
The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link:
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/
Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)
Thanks for listening. Ju...
S07 #21 - What an apprenticeship in tailoring might tell us about the making of a creative, free spirituality or religion . . . - A thought for the day
The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/02/what-apprenticeship-in-tailoring-might.html
Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.
The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link:
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/
Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)
Thanks for listening. Ju...
S07 #20 - Will ready-made religions ever really fit us properly? - A thought for the day
The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/02/will-ready-made-religions-ever-really.html
Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.
The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link:
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/
Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)
Thanks for listening. Ju...
S07 #19 A gentle plea for some basket-weaving and aphanipoiesis - A thought for the day
The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-gentle-plea-for-some-basket-weaving.html
Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.
The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link:
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/
Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)
Thanks for listening. Ju...
S07 #18 - The sustaining sea and the need to take even strokes in these very uneven times - A thought for the day
The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/02/the-sustaining-sea-and-need-to-take.html
Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.
The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link:
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/
Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)
Thanks for listening. Ju...
S07 #17 - How new are you? - A thought for the day
The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link:
https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/01/how-new-are-you.html
Please feel to post any comments you have about this episode there.
The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link:
https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/morning-service/
Music, "New Heaven", written by Andrew J. Brown and played by Chris Ingham (piano), Paul Higgs (trumpet), Russ Morgan (drums) and Andrew J. Brown (double bass)
Thanks for listening. Ju...