Making Footprints Not Blueprints

Making Footprints Not Blueprints

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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.

Recent Episodes

  • S07 #07 - What a kite can tell us about the making of a modern, creative, free-spirituality or religion (“jiyū shūkyō”) - A thought for the day

    4 days ago
  • S07 #06 - It is human to have compassion for those in distress - A thought for the day

    2 weeks ago
  • S07 #05 - What is still possible to do so that, at some point in the future, there might be a reconciliation and peace? - A thought for the day

    3 weeks ago
  • S07 #04 - Faith in one's own spiritual community and a creative, free religion or spirituality - A thought for the day

    1 month ago
  • S07 #03 - Faith in a universal cooperative society - A thought for the day

    2 months ago
  • S07 #02 - Faith in ourselves, our neighbours, and ourselves as neighbours - A thought for the day

    2 months ago
  • S07 #01 - A gentle call to adopt Imaoka Shin’ichirō’s creative, free spirituality found in his “Creed of Life” - A thought for the day

    2 months ago
  • S06 Bonus Episode - Only Conjugate! That is the whole of my sermon - (Final episode of Series 6)

    3 months ago
  • S06 #15 - Living completely inside the movement of the event of the search - A thought for the day

    4 months ago
  • S06 #14 - On the need for liberals to recover their inner Indiana Jones - A thought for the day

    4 months ago