Mortality and Immortality

This service was conducted by our Minister, The Rev. Rob MacPherson on 3rd November, 2019 at the Unitarian Church at Shady Grove, set amidst the beautiful Adelaide Hills and stringybark woodland which surrounds the old church and graveyard. Recent rain has temporarily revived and transformed it for us to enjoy before the expected onset of a fierce and potentially fiery summer.

Rob's address today is about Mortality and Immortality. He contrasts traditional - and contemporary - notions of judgement, mortality and immortality with a braver perspective inspired by Philip Larkin's poem, "Aubade" - "Death is no different whined at than withstood". We are confused about Death. The material perspective is that we want to achieve our mortality - without dying, hoping that we will somehow go on - forever in one form or another.
While we are almost as ephemeral as the May-fly, Rob reminds us of a power that works through human hands but is not made by human hands - an enduring spiritual nexus between love and death.

Listen on!