Making Footprints Not Blueprints

Andrew James Brown/Caute

Welcome to the Making Footprints Not Blueprints podcast. My name is Andrew James Brown, and I’m the Minister of the Unitarian Church in Cambridge, UK. 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 spirituality that will help and encourage you to journey through life, making footprints rather than blueprints. 

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

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/blue-remembered-hills-elegy-for-my.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 Chr...

Mar 4, 2025

6 min

S09 #03 - Swinging the chaotic flows to better ends . . . - 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/swinging-chaotic-flows-to-better-ends.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 ...

Mar 2, 2025

15 min

S09 Bonus Episode - Nascent Integral Liberal Religion - 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/2022/11/a-nascent-form-of-integral-liberal-free.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 b...

Feb 22, 2025

15 min

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

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/2025/02/a-free-religious-community-re-reading.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 ...

Feb 16, 2025

16 min

S09 #01 - It is human to have compassion for those in distress - 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/2023/10/it-is-human-to-have-compassion-for.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...

Jan 19, 2025

13 min

S08 #14 - An obvious framework of ordinary, everyday existence, or the universal life seen in every newborn child - 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/2024/12/an-obvious-framework-of-ordinary.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 Chri...

Dec 28, 2024

14 min

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

Send us a text The full text of this podcast, including the links mentioned, can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/11/norbert-fabian-capeks-ten-principles-of.html Please feel free to post any comments you have about this episode there. The page about the translation of Norbert Fabián Čapek’s "Toward the Sunny Shore: A Guide to Living Joyfully" can be found at this link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/1...

Nov 30, 2024

13 min

S08 #11 - How can fascism be opposed in any other way than by force of arms? - A thought for the day

Send us a text The full text of this podcast, including the links mentioned, can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/11/how-can-fascism-be-opposed-in-any-other.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", writte...

Nov 8, 2024

10 min

S08 #10 - Every day is new, a fresh beginning - A thought for the day

Send us a text The full text of this podcast, including the links mentioned, can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/11/every-day-is-new-fresh-beginning.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 An...

Nov 2, 2024

8 min

S08 #09 - Living well upon wondrous, mysterious facts . . . - A thought for the day

Send us a text The full text of this podcast, including the links mentioned, can be found in the transcript of this edition or at the following link: https://andrewjbrown.blogspot.com/2024/10/living-well-upon-wondrous-mysterious.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 b...

Oct 26, 2024

8 min