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07 September 2013

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Catch us also on Facebook "Ringwood Unitarians"

At the moment we are gathering on the third Sunday of each month, starting at 11.00 a.m.

Some of our gatherings are held online.

We meet at the Ringwood Meeting House, 22 Meeting House Lane, Ringwood, Hampshire BH24 1EY. Contact us for further details.





Welcome to Didymus !

To us, it seems possible that we may already live in paradise. If so, it will be within us and all around us. But the problem is that we don't look for it so we don't see it; and so we abuse it. We aim to prepare ourselves to awaken to its reality and to begin to live connected to this felt sense of beauty and love.


We will welcome you whatever your beliefs, if your beliefs bring you to community in respect and inclusivity.
Having foibles ourselves, we try to create a "foible-friendly" community.
We don't deny what you experience or think or believe.
We will listen to what you want to say, will sit quietly with you if you want to say nothing, and will be as honest as we can be in return, when you listen to us.

We each aim to work within and at our own private system of belief, long enough and seriously enough that we no longer harbour the fear that another belief can insult or affect our own. We know we do not always succeed.

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Gabor Kereki said this on religion the Unitarian way:

Religion ought to provide us with strength, inspiration, spiritual power, and invigorating joy - it ought to reach to the depths of the human spirit where the deepest and most meaningful experiences of life take place.

No Unitarian is called upon to subscribe to any particular belief or to submit to the dominance of a particular doctrine. We need the satisfying and exhilarating experience of worship, we need inspiration for reverence; we need stimulus for duty; we need incentive for love, goodness and beauty; we need a happy spiritual conception of the universe.

One of our main desires is to share our religion with others. In any realm, be it science, art or religion, nobody commends anything to anybody unless first enjoying it, being strengthened and enriched by it.

From ‘Egy Az Isten’ –
Unitarianism – some words of Gabor Kereki
© 1996 General Assembly of
Unitarian and Free Christian Churches



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