Here are a selection of addresses delivered in the Dublin Unitarian Church by the Minister and by members of the congregation
over the past few years.

Both volumes of Bill Darlison’s sermons have now sold out. However, his latest volume is planned for publication in November 2006.

You can now listen to your favourite sermons here

The Many-Splendoured Thing - Rev Bill Darlison
The purpose of religion is not primarily to teach us what to believe or how to act, but to teach us how to look. Just because, unlike the great mystics, we haven’t been granted clarity of sight as a birthright is no reason for us to continue viewing the world myopically. More ->

The Dynamo and The Virgin
Rev Bill Darlison
In a world that we perceive as starting by itself and running by itself, we have lost the sense of a divine origin and an eternal destiny presented to us by our imagination and settled for a purely earth-bound view of ourselves as thinking apes, for whom imagination is generally equated with illusion. More ->

The Priestess and the Goddess
Maud Robinson
Women are held as being absolutely equal with men in the eyes of the Unitarian denomination however many of us, by heritage, hail originally from other spiritual communities, where it is still unheard of for women to hold any sort of roles of power. For those of us who came to Unitarianism as adults with a history behind us in other religious traditions, no matter how much we have intellectually discarded the ideas of those other religious traditions, there is no doubt that for many of us they are a deep part of our personal history. We cannot so easily slough off the things, which were part of our formation from our earliest years. More ->

Sacred Things
Rev Bill Darlison
There is a school of thought within the religious traditions of the world, which tends to view this attachment to things as something of a distraction on our spiritual pilgrimage. In contrast to this rather bleak and cheerless philosophy stands another, which holds that the physical world, far from being an unwelcome hindrance to our spiritual development is, instead, one means by which this very spiritual development is to be effected. The world, and the things of the world, can lead us to God. More ->

Metanoia
Rev Bill Darlison
Think again. Look at things again. There is a good case to be made that the word “religion” means just this. It is simply an invitation to change our perspective on the things we already experience and know More ->

Love Your Fate
Rev Bill Darlison
If you were to remove one ingredient from the past – even a tiny one, even a painful one – you would not be who you are today. We all have to learn to accept the past, to accept the hand that we have been dealt, with all its weak and strong suits, and to stop looking around for things to blame for our condition. Treat the vicissitudes of your life as if you had willed them, as if you needed them in order to develop as a person and as a soul. More ->

Long Live Miracles!
Jennifer Flegg
It seems to me that an exclusively explanatory approach to miracles is a pitfall into which Unitarianism is particularly prone to fall. The Jews, wiser that we are in this respect, recognise the miracles within the Bible story for what they are - constant pointers to the presence of God. Our sense of the miraculous restores our faith in possibility and human potential. It keeps our minds humble and open to the wonders of what is still inexplicable. More ->

Devils and Symbols
Rev Bill Darlison
Dualism postulates the existence of two equally powerful forces, one good, one evil, locked in eternal combat, neither ever gaining complete mastery over the other? There is a sense in which these two forces are not so much antagonists as complementaries; they depend upon each other, fuel each other. More ->