Archive of Services
| 2013 | ||
| 30th June | 11.00am Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | |
| 3.00pm Eastern Union of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches Summer Meeting with Revd Bill Darlison (President of the General Assembly) | 'Onwards and Upwards?' | |
| 23rd June | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'Celebration of Young Life' |
| 16th June | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Pastor) | '"The Daddy Shift" Thoughts on Father's Day' |
| 9th June | Social Responsibility Group | Assisted Dying |
| 2nd June | Elspeth Rushbrook (Member of the Octagon Congregation) | Anne Boleyn: 'Esther, Not Jezebel' |
| 26th May | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Leader) | 'In Praise of Weeds' |
| 19th May | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | |
| 12th May | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | |
| 5th May | Revd Bill Darlison (President of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches) | |
| 28th Apr | Martin Gienke (Retired Lay Leader) | 'Goodness Gracious Me' |
| 21st Apr | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | |
| 14th Apr | Helaina Checketts (Octagon Member) | 'Can we evade the past?' |
| 7th Apr | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | |
| 31st Mar | David Heap (Member of Dublin Unitarian Church) | |
| 24th Mar | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | |
| 17th Mar | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | |
| 1.30pm AGM in the Martineau Hall | ||
| 10th Mar | David Arthur | |
| 3rd Mar | Rosemary Arthur | |
| 24th Feb | Carol Palfrey (Octagon Members) | 'Stargazing' |
| 17th Feb | Iris Voegeli and Kate McKenna (Octagon Members) | Membership Service |
| 10th Feb | Martin Gienke (Retired Lay Leader) | 'Bring Joy' |
| 3rd Feb | Elspeth Rushbrook (Octagon Member) | 'The Wisdom of the Smurfs' |
| 27th Jan | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Leader) | 'Living in the Questions' |
| 20th Jan | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | |
| 13th Jan | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | |
| 6th Jan | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Leader) | 'Do Unitarians 'do' Epiphany?' |
| 2012 | ||
| 30th Dec | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | |
| 25th Dec | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | |
| 23rd Dec | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | |
| 16th Dec 6.30pm |
Candlelight Carol Service | |
| 16th Dec 11.00am |
Ray Seal (Retired Lay Leader) | 'Tilting at Windmills' |
| 9th Dec | Revd John Harley (GA Youth Co-ordinator) | 'A few words on the Soul' |
| 2nd Dec | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | |
| 25th Nov | Linda and Mark Leslie (Octagon Members) | 'It takes a village' |
| 18th Nov | Ian Cameron (Octagon Member) | The Power of 'As If' |
| 11th Nov | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) Service starts 10.55am | 'Memorials: A Service for Remembrance Sunday' |
| 4th Nov | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | T.B.A. |
| 28th Oct | Revd Frank Walker (Minister Emeritus Cambridge Church) | 'Finding Our Human Place in the Universe' |
| 21st Oct | Gavin Lloyd (Member of Oxford Church) | 'Physician heal thyself' |
| 14th Oct | Martin Gienke (Retired Lay Leader) | 'Harvest of Genes' |
| 7th Oct | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'Celebrating our Pets' |
| 30th Sep | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | T.B.A. |
| 23rd Sep | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Leader) | 'Great Expectations' |
| 16th Sep | Alan Ruston (Member of Watford Fellowship, former president of the GA, Unitarian historian) | 'Is it good to be kind?' |
| 9th Sep | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | T.B.A. |
| 2nd Sep | Revd Peter Hewis (Emeritus Chaplain and Fellow, Harris Manchester College, Oxford) | 'The Indian in Bristol and the Jew in Norwich' |
| 26th Aug | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | 'O is for Others' |
| 19th Aug | Social Responsibility Group | Mental Health - 'Seeing Through the Mist' |
| 12th Aug | Angela Maher (Chair of the General Assembly's Visibility Strategy Group) | 'O is for Others' |
| 5th Aug | Czire Sbalocs (From Transylvania) | |
| 29th Jul | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | |
| 22nd Jul | Jackie Grace (Octagon Member) | 'On Redemption' |
| 15th Jul | Betty Rathbone (Octagon Member) | 'Octavia Hill' |
| 8th Jul | Revd Ashley Hills (Retired Unitarian Minister) | 'A Sermon on Sermons' |
| 1st Jul | Revd Dr David Usher (District Minister for Unitarians in London and the South East) | 'The Geography of Heaven' |
| 24th Jun | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'Religion for atheists…and atheism for the religious' |
| 17th Jun | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'Help, I need somebody!' |
| 10th Jun | Martin Gienke (Lay Leader of the Bury St Edmunds Unitarian Congregation) | 'Are we the End of the Line?' |
| 3rd Jun | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Pastor) | 'Jubilato - The Queen and You and Me' |
| 27th May | Lyn Holt (Octagon Member) | Pentecost |
| 20th May | Carol Palfrey (Octagon Member) | 'The Sea of Faith' |
| 13th May | Revd Bill Darlison (Minister Emeritus of Dublin Unitarian Church and Vice President of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches) | 'Rock 'n' Roll Religion' |
| 6th May | Revd Celia Midgley (Retired Unitarian Minister) |
The Story of ICUU ~ in Three Short Chapters |
| 29th Apr | Elspeth Rushbrook (Octagon Member) |
'Diversity and the Supernatural' |
| 22nd Apr | Revd Peter Hewis(Emeritus Chaplain and Fellow, Harris Manchester College, Oxford) |
'The Things of Value' |
| 15th Apr | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) |
'Passover: A Unitarian Celebration' |
| 8th Apr | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) |
Easter |
| 1st Apr | Revd Ashley Hills (Retired Unitarian Minister) |
'Time Wasting' |
| 25th Mar | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) |
'What Are We Doing Here' |
| 18th Mar | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Pastor) |
''KISS' your way forward' |
| 11th Mar | Revd Frank Walker (Minister Emeritus Cambridge Church) |
'Helping the Dying - How far can we go?' |
| 4th Mar | Sue Woolley (Unitarian Ministry Student & MUA Facilitator) |
'Spring - the Season of Renewal' |
| 26th Feb | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Reader) |
'A Lentern Meditation' |
| 19th Feb | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) |
'Evolution Weekend' |
| 12th Feb | Revd Frank Walker (Minister Emeritus Cambridge Church) |
'The Stutter of Demosthenes' |
| 5th Feb | Jackie Grace (Octagon Member) |
'On Redemption' |
| 29th Jan | Sunday Club - Youth Sunday |
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| 22nd Jan | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Reader) |
'Dovetailing' |
| 15th Jan | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) |
Comparing and Contrasting |
| 8th Jan | Revd Frank Walker (Minister Emeritus Cambridge Church) |
'How much can you give up? The Challenge of becoming Sannyasi' |
| 1st Jan | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) |
A New Year's Day Pot Pourri |
| 2011 | ||
| 25th Dec | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) |
A worship service for Christmas Morning |
| 18th Dec | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) |
'Take a deep breath' |
| 11th Dec | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | 'Human Rights' |
| 4th Dec | Bruce Chilton (Octagon Member) |
'The Big Society and Unitarians' |
| 27th Nov | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) |
'Sleeping with Bread' |
| 20th Nov | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Reader) |
'Shanks's Pony' |
| 6th Nov | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Pastor) | 'What Will They Remember?' |
| 30th Oct | Yvonne Aburrow (Unitarian Ministry Student) | 'Samhain and All Souls' |
| 23rd Oct | Peace Service | |
| 16th Oct | Philip Pinney (Octagon Member) | 'When God Spoke English' |
| 9th Oct | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Pastor) | 'Who Are We Singing To?' |
| 2nd Oct | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'To kill a man is not to protect a doctrine' Michael Servetus, 1511-1553 |
| 25th Sep | Revd John Harley (Unitarian Youth Minister) | 'Miracles' |
| 18th Sep | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | 'Gentler Ways to Atonement' |
| 11th Sep | Ray Seal (Retired Lay Pastor) | 'Five Loaves and Two Fishes' |
| 4th Sep | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'Community and Continuity' |
| 7th August | Revd Peter Hewis (Emeritus Chaplain & Fellow, Harris Manchester College, Oxford) | 'Sanctuaries and sacred places' |
| 31st July | Neville Kenyon (Immediate Past President of the General Assembly) | 'Reflections on a President's Year' |
| 24th July | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | 'Take Time' |
| 17th July | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'But is it real?' |
| 10th July | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'Doing Compassion' |
| 3rd July | Ray Seal (Lay Pastor at Framlingham Church) | 'Mysticism, Mystics and Us' |
| 26th June | Revd Dr Ann Peart President of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches |
'Love and Death at Octagon Chapel'; a story from the 1820s' |
| 19th June | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | GA Sunday |
| 12th June | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'Can Unitarians Do Pentecost?' |
| 5th June | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | 'Making Deeper Decisions' |
| 29th May | Ray Seal (Lay Pastor at Framlingham Church) | 'The Divine is in the Human' |
| 22nd May | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'Doing Compassion' |
| 15th May | Ray Seal (Lay Pastor at Framlingham Church) | 'God depends on Us!' |
| 8th May | Revd Rod Sanders (Church of England Minister, Guildford) with Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'Happiness Is' |
| 1st May | Judith Farmer (Octagon Member) | 'Social Responsibility - what does it mean to us?' |
| 24th April | Revd Frank Walker (Minister Emeritus - Cambridge Church) | 'Easter: Getting Up Again and Going On' |
| 17th April | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | 'Enthusiasms' |
| 10th April | Ian Cameron (Member of the Octagon Congregation) | 'Meeting the Stranger, Meeting the Self' |
| 3rd April | Revd Peter Hewis(Minister Emeritus - Oxford Church) | 'Building the new Jerusalem' |
| 27th Mar | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | 'Waves' |
| 20th Mar | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'It's just another day' |
| 13th Mar | Revd Frank Walker (Minister Emeritus - Cambridge Church) | 'On Being Provoked by The Bible' |
| 6th Mar | Betty Rathbone (Octagon Member) | 'Seeds' |
| 27th Feb | Revd Frank Walker (Minister Emeritus - Cambridge Church) | 'Love Suffers Long and is Kind - the Communion of the Saints' |
| 20th Feb | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'What We Embrace' |
| 13th Feb | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | 'The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. Reflections on Philip Pullman's latest book' |
| 6th Feb | Ray Seal Lay Pastor at Framlingham Church) | 'U and Religious Freedom' |
| 30th Jan | Jackie Grace (Octagon Member) | 'Remembering Genocide' |
| 23rd Jan | Simon Rathbone (Octagon Member) | 'From The Book to caravans' |
| 16th Jan | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'Our roads to Damascus' |
| 9th Jan | Revd Joy Croft (Retired Unitarian Minister) | 'Forward in Faith' |
| 2nd Jan | Revd Ashley Hills (Retired Unitarian Minister) | |
| 2010 | ||
| 26th Dec | Mary Rae (Octagon Member) | 'On the Feast of Stephen' |
| 25th Dec | 11.00am A Bring and Share Service | |
| 19th Dec | 11.00am Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | |
| 6.30pm Candlelight Carol Service | ||
| 12th Dec | Ray Seal (Lay Pastor at Framlingham Church) | |
| 5th Dec | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'Oh Christmas Tree' |
| 28th Nov | Nicky Jenkins (Unitarian Student Lay Pastor) | 'The Porous Church' |
| 21st Nov | Martin Gienke (Lay Leader Bury St Edmunds Church) | 'Get a Life: a Second Life' |
| 14th Nov | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'Remembering' |
| 7th Nov | Ray Seal (Lay Pastor at Framlingham Church) | 'Remember, Remember!' |
| 31st Oct | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | |
| 24th Oct | Margaret Kirk (Retired Unitarian Minister) | |
| 17th Oct | Yvonne Arburrow (Unitarian Ministry student) | |
| 10th Oct | Ray Seal (Lay Pastor at Framlingham Church) | 'Who'll Taste the Apple?' |
| 3rd Oct | Kate McKenna (Octagon Member) | 'A Pet Service' |