Kiitsu—Returning-to-One

<p>Welcome to "Kiitsu—Returning-to-One" the podcast formally known as "Making Footprints Not Blueprints." My name is Andrew James Brown, and I’m the Minister of the Unitarian Church in Cambridge, UK. <br /><br />Knowing that full scope always eludes our grasp, that there is no finality of vision, that we have perceived nothing completely, and that, therefore, tomorrow a new walk is a new walk, I hope that, on occasion, you’ll find here some helpful expressions of a creative, inquiring, free and liberative religion and spirituality that will help and encourage you to journey through life, making footprints rather than blueprints. </p>

S11 #01 - Liberal, free-religion and the discipline of Verification–Deliberation–Accountability (VDA) - A thought for the day

Send us a text The full text of this podcast with all the links mentioned in it can be found in the transcript of this edition, or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2025/10/liberal-free-religion-and-discipline-of.html Please feel free to post any comments you have about this episode there. Opening 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 fo...

10-03
14:28

S11 Bonus Episode - "Kiitsu: Returning-to-One" Launch

Send us a text The full text of this podcast with all the links mentioned in it can be found in the transcript of this edition, or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2025/09/an-introduction-to-my-rebranded.html Please feel free to post any comments you have about this episode there. Opening 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 listen...

09-29
10:56

S10 #07 - Jiyū shūkyō—a free-religious, integral spirituality from within the Unitarian tradition - A thought for the day

Send us a text The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2025/07/jiyu-shukyoa-free-religious-integral.html Please feel free to post any comments you have about this episode there. The liturgy of the Sunday Morning service of Mindful Meditation, Music, and Mucic, and the "Principles of Living " mentioned in this podcast can be downloaded as pdfs at the following links: https://www.cambridgeunitarian....

07-26
16:59

S10 #06 - What we do - practice, commitment, and liberal, free-religion - A thought for the day

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07-19
13:25

S10 Bonus Episode - An introduction to the Philosophy of Epicurus - A thought for the day

Send us a text The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2018/10/all-five-very-short-morning-reflections.html Please feel free to post any comments you have about this episode there. The "Epicurean Gathering" mentioned at the beginning of the episode can be downloaded as a pdf at the following link: https://www.cambridgeunitarian.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Epicurean-Gathering-2013.pdf The music...

07-12
14:37

S10 #05 - A Portable Spirituality — Walking the Path of Free-Religion ( jiyū shūkyō) - A thought for the day

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07-03
14:38

S10 #04 - To the old, present, and still to appear gods and goddesses - A thought for the day

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06-30
16:40

S10 #03 - Free-religion’s challenge to all Covenantal Singularisation Projects - A thought for the day

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06-21
13:18

S10 #02 - “God is a muck-heap or a cow, and no irreverence meant”—Free-religion and ordinary language - A thought for the day

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06-14
15:03

S10 #01 - A free-religious reading of the story of Pentecost - A thought for the day

Send us a text The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-free-religious-reading-of-story-of.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 Ch...

06-07
13:28

S09 #05 - Maternalisation is materialisation—A happy, and cosmic, Mothering Sunday to you all! - A thought for the day

Send us a text The full text of this podcast can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2025/03/maternalisation-is-materialisationa.html Please feel free to post any comments you have about this episode there. Botticelli's "Birth of Venus" can be viewed at the following link: https://www.uffizi.it/en/artworks/birth-of-venus The Cambridge Unitarian Church's Sunday Service of Mindful Meditation can be found at this link: https:/...

03-27
15:54

S09 #04 - Two good very things—a spring thought for the day in advance of the Cambridge Unitarian Church's AGM - A thought for the day

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03-22
11:57

S09 Bonus Episode - Blue Remembered Hills — An elegy for my parents-in-law and the post-war liberal, democratic, rules-based order

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03-04
06:45

S09 #03 - Swinging the chaotic flows to better ends . . . - A thought for the day

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03-02
15:05

S09 Bonus Episode - Nascent Integral Liberal Religion - A thought for the day

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02-22
15:49

S09 #02 - A free-religious community re-reading of the Parable of the Prodigal Son — “the saviour was not the father but the home” - A thought for the day

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02-16
16:28

S09 #01 - It is human to have compassion for those in distress - A thought for the day

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01-19
13:24

S08 #14 - An obvious framework of ordinary, everyday existence, or the universal life seen in every newborn child - A thought for the day

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12-28
14:38

S08 #13 - Norbert Fabián Čapek’s “Ten Principles of Living” - A thought for the day

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11-30
13:16

S08 #12 - Preparing for a lowercase “c” christmas - A thought for the day

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11-30
10:50

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