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Kris begins today's address "Let's Play" with a brief overview of the nature of games, both traditional - 'primitive' and those more tech-focused, many of which we will remember playing in childhood and as adults. He asks: "In the 'game of living', what should we be learning in our play today - more than we may have needed in more 'primitive' times…
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Kris begins today with the inevitable question asked of Unitarians: "What do you stand for?" Christians or Post-Christians who subscribe to a Faith tradition that adheres to a Credo dictating what the faithful are to believe - are especially curious. Kris suggests an appropriate rejoiner is: "This is a place where we Unitarians are free to explore …
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At a "packed" Shady Grove combined service this morning, Kris continues his narrative on Prague Unitarians - Czechian Unitarianism - its founder, Norbert Čapek and the influence of Tomáš Masaryk, who later became the Founding Father of Czechoslovakia. Kris also reads to us our seven (UUA) Unitarian Principles, which we are in the process of revisin…
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Kris has returned from his annual leave which included a visit to the Český lid Unitarians in Prague. Although he arrived home yesterday, no-doubt jet-lagged, he uses this opportunity to report back to Adelaide Unitarians about the many things we share, but also describes some innovations from which we may benefit. Listen on for some glimpses of wh…
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Colin and Stu back together in the studio together and doing something a bit different! We'll put in some prompts to A.I. and ask for a playlist of 10 tracks to be generated! Completely at the mercy of our A.I. overlord we'll play LIVE whatever it suggests and chat or cry or cringe or celebrate about it afterwards!…
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Jennie begins her address, today with an assertion of social commentator, Hugh MacKay's - in his book - The Way We Are - "that we are not as well equipped as previous generations to deal with sustained challenge". In probing and testing this assertion, Jennie takes a contemporary snapshot of the way we are, commencing with the bushfires of 2019-202…
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Oh, yeah...out of the clear blue it's happening again! Col is socialising so Stu is taking over, pushing Expanding Horizons to the side and doing another - "THE SPA LIST". Stu's hot tracks from his ever-expanding, always promising playlist from his time spent soaking in the spa; and his hot takes on every one of them.…
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In this address, Aaron reintroduces us to Monsters - whose personification - or rather "monster-fication" is Fear. Helen's reading leads us into Monsters: "The truth is this: every monster you have ever met...was once a human being with a soul that was once as soft as silk. Someone stole that silk from their soul and turned them into this. So when …
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Through the medium of Boris Pasternak's novel, Dr Zhivago, Peter takes us on a nostalgic journey through the political upheavals that occurred within Russian society a little over a century ago, as Communists wrestled power from Czarist Russia. Peter's address focuses on the despair caused when ideals for a better, fairer, more equitable society fa…
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Kris's address is the sequel to an earlier address he gave on the seven sins: - focusing today on seven virtues. Kris draws inspiration from an affirmation by the Roman Stoic Philosopher, Seneca, - of the joy that comes with living the virtuous life. Kris poses the question Seneca posed 2000 years ago: "- for what prevents us from saying that the h…
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Today, Zainab tells the story of her family's escape from Iraq when she was a 10 year old:- her family's perilous journey at the hands of people smugglers on an overcrowded Indonesian fishing boat; abandoned by the crew; discovered by the Australian Navy; her family's arrival in Darwin; confined to the Woomera Detention Centre - before Zainab and h…
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The subject we reflect on today is "10 Things for Humans to Know". Kris reflects on some contemporary rules to guide human conduct and some rules from the past. He then concludes with the response of the avatar - "Chat GPT" when it was asked for ten humanitarian rules. What was generated "robotically" by Chat GPT's Artificial Intelligence resolved …
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This Saturday we have Steffany Beck & Miranda Easten LIVE in studio to chat about their Saddle-up Sisters tour, (CHCH gig at A Rolling Stone Friday 5/7) their new single (Hell & Back) and everything else that's going on with them! Music? Of course we'll hear their music!
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Kris's address during National Reconciliation Week, focused on reconciliation with First Nations people. Kris briefly explores the history of Reconciliation:- commencing with restraint in the face of provocation between a Guugu Yimithirr elder and Captain Cook, the Constitutional change brought about by our most successful national referendum which…
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This Saturday we cross the ditch again to Melbourne as we dive into just how to craft harmonies at the intersection of art and science, with Magnets, the solo project of multi-disciplinary, Siobhan McGinnity. We'll chat about their music, recording, touring, making cool music videos and all the usual. Plus plenty of their tracks in-between.…
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Today, with the focus of today's service on 'conversation', Kris introduced Rev. Dave - visiting our church again, from the USA. In the course of their conservation, Kris asked Rev. Dave about his rules for living a good life. Dave responded with four rules:- The 12 O'Clock Rule The 30 second Rule The 13% Rule and Rule number 6 - - but you'll need …
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Kris approaches today's address: "Transcending the human condition" (Transcendence) with some questions:- "What do we mean by being human? - able to rise above our animal instincts?" "How do we go from being "nice", "reasonable" people to a state of Transcendence?" "How do we move beyond moral development to spiritual development?" "What holds us b…
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Kris begins his address with a question: "Who was Georg Philipp Friedrich Fruihwald von Hadenburg - alias Novalis?" a corruption from di Novali - "The Newcomers" - the name his ancestors gave to themselves when they settled on their land. Novalis b. 1772, was a Lutheran, (Pietist) mystic, in awe of the beauty and mystery of Nature and the universe …
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Kris introduces us to a remarkable, Eastern Orthodox Church which has stood in Gaza City for more than a millennium - resolute, obdurate - a beacon of hope and tolerance amidst the rubble, turmoil and despair. Kris asks - "What lessons can we learn from the microcosm that is this Church of Saint Porphyrius. They were lessons that needed to be learn…
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In the context of an approaching Anzac Day, Kris begins today's address today by reading our seven Unitarian Principles. Altruistic as these 'Seven Principles' are as Unitarian Universalist aspirations for a better world for all, the community consensus with which they are received encourages "a certain kind of passivity" ... lip service? "Somethin…
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Those lucky enough to be born in the Chinese "Year of the Dragon" are said to be endowed with Power, Abundance, Majesty and Longevity. Kris's address today takes its title from Bruce "The Dragon" Lee's martial arts film - "Enter the Dragon". It is about a darker side: that "dragon" within ourselves and commences with a reading from an interview wit…
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