A couple of video links for you to watch over a nice cup of tea and a biscuit . . .

Here you will find Steven Nadler giving a brief presentation on Spinoza and his relevance for us today. Nadler has written the definitive modern biography of Spinoza and I can thoroughly recommend it. His guide to The Ethics is also very good and accessible.

Part One (9 mins)

Part Two (10 mins)

And here is a link to Alain de Botton's programme on Epicurus

Lastly, I am acutely aware that I mention tea in my list of interests but that I haven't written about it yet. Well I do love tea with a passion. In fact a key moment in Unitarian Christian history occurred in Manchester during the gifting of a tea set - really! It's called the Manchester Socinian Controversy and ran between 1825 and 1844. More on that another time. However, for your delectation here are two tea links:

A nice cup of tea and a sit down

The Book of Tea by Okakuru Kakuzo (1863-1913)
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My name is Andrew James Brown. I’m a philosophically/theologically inclined writer with deep sympathies towards Imaoka Shin’ichirō's understanding of a creative, inquiring, free and liberative religion/spirituality (jiyū shūkyō 自由宗教), Jōdo Shinshū Buddhism, Konkokyo, Christian non-theism, D. G. Leahy’s “thinking now occurring for the first time”, a Lucretian inspired religious naturalism, new materialism and Kyoto School philosophy; also a photographer, cyclist, walker and jazz bass player. In addition to this, I’m the minister of a small, liberal, free-religious community in Cambridge (UK)

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