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Introduces an original take on floral design that teaches us to see the world anew Based on Lindsey Taylor's popular Wall Street Journal column 'Flower School, ' on its surface this book demonstrates how Taylor creates stunning but achievable floral arrangements inspired by works of art. Riffing on works by a diversity of artists across mediums, periods, and styles, including Alice Neel, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Julie Mehretu, Sheila Hicks, Wille...

This book is intended for anyone searching for a spiritual response to the ecological crisis that confronts us all. The contributors, who include Unitarian ministers, lay people, and children, writing from diverse theological and ethical perspectives, consider what it might mean to live in right relationship with the Earth. Their insights range from the prophetic and political to the practical and intensely personal, but all contributors share...

Through the magic, mystery and miracle of meditation, an intriguing expedition is embarked upon into the World of Light in Crystal Mysticism so that understanding can be obtained about the Great Shift that is going to occur to Human Beings and to Earth. Many souls, and many more of every kind, have been given knowledge about the Great Event and at a pre-ordained time this information started being released. During the journey, hidden knowledge...

The second volume of American Examples presents nine new essays with fresh multidisciplinary approaches to understanding the place of faith, broadly understood, in America, broadly understood"--

When the Author's Spiritual Director made her aware that it was time to write a report about what she had witnessed, whilst she was meditating, concerning the preparations for the re-emergence of Atlantis, he asked her to include a detailed account of her past lives in which there was a connection with Atlantis. This was to explain why she was in possession of this knowledge about Atlantis, and to demonstrate how our past lives can have an eff...

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What might the future of the Unitarian movement look like? That depends, this book argues, on how its members envision - and enact - its mission. Stephen Lingwood urges that Unitarians can evangelise, with a message of hope for a "beloved community" in this world: the Paradise of the title. He proposes the possibility of a mission to revive Unitarianism not only numerically, but also spiritually. He takes the reader through the progressive sta...

A collection of reflective texts for every day of the year. More than half are insights offered by Unitarians, past and present. The rest are inspired by world faiths, poets, humanist philosophers, and radical social thinkers. They could form part of a daily practice of personal reflection at the start or end of the day. They could also be used by small groups as a resource for contemplation and discussion. For worship leaders they may be a us...

As a religion which imposes no creed or dogma on its followers, Unitarianism is not easy to define. This short book introduces readers to Unitarian values and principles by means of a simple question-and-answer format, based on questions that people have actually asked when encountering Unitarians for the first time: questions such as "Where does the word 'Unitarian' come from?" ... "Are Unitarians Christians?" ... "Is there a Unitarian morali...

An enchanting collection of folk tales retold by professional storytellers

A practical manual, designed for use by anyone seeking a fuller, more meaningful life - "life measured by quality and intensity, not quantity" - within the context of everyday demands and distractions. It does not assume any formal belief system or religious affiliation on the part of the reader, although it draws inspiration from a wide range of world faiths. The journey to spiritual health can start at any point, and the twelve steps of this...

This book traces the evolution of Charles Darwin's religious thinking throughout the course of his life, relying as far as possible on Darwin's own words, to determine the extent to which Unitarians are justified in claiming the author of 'The Origin of Species' ss one of their own.

A collection of 230 hymns, with music, drawn from a wide range of liberal religious sources, all written in the 20th or 21st century, many were composed by Unitarian and Unitarian Universalist writers, often drawing their imagery from other faith traditions. The collection includes songs for blessing partnerships and relationships. The compilers have drawn on a wide range of musical styles, using keys in keeping with current group vocal range.

From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views of the region. Yet, even as the fruits of this creative South have famously been celebrated, exported, and expropriated, the region long was labeled a cultural backwater. This timely and ...

A resurgence of fundamentalist religious thinking on both sides of the Atlantic is creating demands for the anti-evolutionist, Bible-based doctrine of Creationism and the less doctrinaire but equally unprovable concept of 'Intelligent Design' (ID) to be taught in the school science curriculum as genuine alternatives to the theory of evolution. The two sides seem to be intractable: Creationists are impervious to scientific reasoning, and scient...

The Georgian and Regency period was a time of extremes in clothing, from the heights of the extravagant and decorative headdresses to the widths of the panniers. This book guides you through the exciting fashions of the time.

What gives meaning to your life?... Why do you believe what you believe? ... Are there any moral absolutes? ... Can you be spiritual all by yourself?... Is there a God?... Is it possible to be spiritual without any concept of God at all?... This book offers no answers to these and similar questions. Instead it aims to help readers to think for themselves and develop their own responses to them. It can be used by members of any religious faith ...

In his latest collection of devotional writing, Cliff Reed offers prayers, poems, and meditations for use in gathered congregations, in small groups, or for private reading and reflection. Cliff Reed is a retired Unitarian minister whose prayers are inspired by the natural world, by his liberal Christian roots, and by insights from other world faiths.

A range of articles by a distinguished historian of Unitarianism, presenting some of the individuals who have shaped the development of Unitarian thought in Great Britain over the past 300 years. From the famous to the almost forgotten, the singular individuals encountered in this book all upheld religious or political liberty, sometimes at great cost to themselves. The author considers them in their particular historical contexts and brings t...

Traces the unusual story of the first atomic city and the emergence of American nuclear culture. Kept off all commercial maps, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, was created for the Manhattan Project by the US government in the 1940s. Blending historiography and ethnography, Lindsey Freeman shows how this once-secret city is visibly caught in an uncertain present, no longer what it was historically yet still clinging to the hope of a nuclear future.