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Making Footprints Not Blueprints

By: Andrew James Brown/Caute
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  • 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 seriously an insight of the poet A. R. Ammons who felt that true human freedom only comes when we have understood that full scope always eludes our grasp, that there is no finality of vision, that we have perceived nothing completely and that, therefore, and thankfully, tomorrow a new walk is a new walk.

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Episodes
  • S07 #28 - Nothing belongs to anyone - all things belong to the whole - A thought for the day

    S07 #28 - Nothing belongs to anyone - all things belong to the whole - A thought for the day
    Apr 26 2024

    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/nothing-belongs-to-anyone-all-things.html

    Please feel free 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. Just to note that all the texts of these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find there a brief biography, info about my career as a musician, & some photography. Feel free to drop by & say hello. Email: caute.brown[at]gmail.com
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    9 mins
  • S07 #27 - On wobbly Jenga towers, church governance, yeast, broken bread, communion, metamorphosis and a modern, free and inquiring religion - A thought for the day

    S07 #27 - On wobbly Jenga towers, church governance, yeast, broken bread, communion, metamorphosis and a modern, free and inquiring religion - A thought for the day
    Apr 20 2024

    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/on-wobbly-jenga-towers-church.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. Just to note that all the texts of these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find there a brief biography, info about my career as a musician, & some photography. Feel free to drop by & say hello. Email: caute.brown[at]gmail.com
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    12 mins
  • 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

    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
    Apr 13 2024

    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. Just to note that all the texts of these podcasts are available on my blog. You'll also find there a brief biography, info about my career as a musician, & some photography. Feel free to drop by & say hello. Email: caute.brown[at]gmail.com
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    14 mins
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