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Reflections on stories of women in the Bible
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Joy Mead |
Through poems and reflections Joy Mead imagines the women mentioned in the Bible as central to their own stories, rather than appearing briefly on the margins of a narrative which reflects a world perceived and led by men. Her meditations on these women express her belief that their stories are not just about 'women’s issues', but are relevant to both men and women. They explore an incarnational theology, earthed in creation and the possibility of transformation, and a perspective on society centred on mutuality and relationship.
This is a book not of certainties and answers but of explorations and questions. Just like the interaction at the well of Jesus and the Samaritan woman, or Jacob and Rachel, it is about looking into the puzzling heart of all things and being enriched by the experience.
The birthing of the ordinary
revolution: women’s voices
sound Magnificat
making an enormous YES
on housing estates
and travellers’ sites,
in hostels for the homeless
and cardboard cities;
in community food shops,
credit unions,
soup kitchens
and baby co-ops;
where the rhythm of a song
moves the people’s dreams
like flowers scattered
at the site of a stabbing;
where the handmaid
of the Lord, in her own
shaft of light
stands tall and empowered
breaking each day
in community
the 25p sliced bread
of life.
('Magnificat now' by Joy Mead)
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Some worship resources
Various contributors |
Digital download: 783 million people do not have access to clean water and almost 2.5 billion do not have access to adequate sanitation (UN figures). Here are some worship resources for putting together a service on water, and some suggestions for taking action. 11 pages.
May clean, clear water bless us,
wellspring or waterfall,
life in abundance
flowing, cleansing, refreshing …
(From a blessing by Chris Polhill)
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A liturgy for Harvest Festival
Joy Mead |
Digital download: A service for celebrating Harvest with an emphasis on the importance of seeds and soil, and reminding us that hunger isn't caused by scarcity but by injustice. 11 pages.
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An invitation to contribute
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We are always looking for new liturgies or collections of prayers, reflections etc. to add to the growing list of downloads in our e-liturgies section.
If you have something that you would like to submit for consideration, we would welcome your input. Your contribution could be for a particular season, such as Advent and Christmas or Lent and Easter, or on a specific subject, such as homelessness, sexuality, poverty, racism, or for a special day of the year, such as Valentine’s Day, Lammastide, Harvest, Remembrance Day, Father’s Day etc.
If you are interested, or if you would like more suggestions for subjects, please email [email protected] and use the subject-line ‘E-liturgies’.
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(Book and e-book)
The Iona Community |
Liturgies for Advent and Christmas, Lent and Easter, Transfiguration, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, All Saints’, St Columba’s Day, Father’s Day; on hunger, economic witness, peacemaking, the environment, pilgrimage, welcome, hospitality and friendship. Includes a blessing liturgy for a marriage or partnership, a wedding/partnership ceremony and resources for a memorial event.
Full communion services and shorts acts of worship; liturgies for small groups and all-age gatherings; worship rooted in church life and the Iona Community’s resident group on Iona, in social justice and pastoral work. So – as always with the Iona Community – worship which is contextual, with a strong justice and peace edge.
Originally published as single digital downloads by Wild Goose.
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New and selected poems of faith and doubt
(Book and e-book)
Richard Skinner |
Witty and reflective poems of faith and doubt, starting with the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden and concluding with the events of the first Easter, taking in on the way Julian of Norwich’s hazelnut, Mastermind, God as a blizzard, and the eighth deadly sin.
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(Book and e-book)
The Iona Community |
A wide-ranging collection of resources for Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter, Pentecost, Transfiguration, Harvest, Holocaust Memorial Day, Mothering Sunday, and other special days, and on areas of concern, like refugees and peacemaking. Originally published as single digital downloads.
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(Book and e-book)
The Iona Community |
This new edition of the Iona Abbey Worship Book has been extensively revised and rearranged. About 80% of the text is new material which has been developed by members of the Iona Community since the previous edition.
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