Slavery & freedom
We shout out their names and honour their courage (PDF download)
A reflection and prayer for the UN International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (25th March). 4 pages.
Digital download: Stories, prayers and actions for International Women’s Day designed for a small group of women, although the resources can also be adapted for individual reflection, prayer and action. 12 pages.
St Patrick's Day
Digital download: Poems, prayers and songs for St Patrick’s Day. 8 pages.
Mothering Sunday
Digital download: Five poems by Tom Gordon dedicated to mothers and mothering. 7 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: A responsive reading, a reflection and a prayer for Ash Wednesday. 5 pages.
Valentine's Day
Digital download: A reflection and resources for Valentine’s Day, focusing on a broader interpretation of what it represents. Includes two finger labyrinths to use as tools for reflection. 11 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A carol service in a traditional format with contemporary readings. 13 pages.
Funerals
Digital download: A simple liturgy of reflections, prayers and poems to remember someone who has died and to begin to let go of them. 11 pages.
Digital download: Worship resources for weddings, including prayers, blessings and a section on suggestions for the wedding sermon along with three sample sermons. 23 pages.
Digital download: A set of worship items for evening time that could be used by a family or a group. Includes simple songs/chants, psalms, prayers and ways of remembering the Bible. 5 pages.
Evening
Digital download: An all-age evening liturgy, including responsive prayers, a night story based on Acts 20:7–12 and other suggestions for stories, poems and songs. 10 pages.
Meditations
This reflection and meditation, written out of the experience of lockdown due to Covid-19 in 2020, can be used during any period in life in which you are feeling troubled or perplexed, and are seeking to journey deep within for answers. 6 pages.
Digital download: Prayers for church life and events, including for acknowledging Christian dispute, for parish meetings, for Vision Sunday and more. 11 pages.
Blessings
Digital download: Fifteen prayers inspired by the interior of church buildings, seven of which can be used to dedicate a place of worship and the others used for more personal reflection, ending with a prayer for the city, town or village. 10 pages.
Digital download: A collection of poems, prayers and reflections based mostly on stories from the Bible, offering fresh insights and often laughter. 43 pages.
Good Friday
Digital download: An ecumenical prayer walk for Good Friday which uses local landmarks to relate to the concerns of the community and its links to the wider world. Based on the medieval tradition of fourteen stations of the Cross. 24 pages.
Good Friday
Digital download: An outdoor service for Good Friday. 10 pages.
Digital download: An all-age song for Easter Sunday, words only, to be sung to the tune of ‘This old man’. 2 pages.
Maundy Thursday
Digital download: A reflective Tenebrae service that can be used with all ages from 9 years upwards, during which candles are extinguished to symbolise how Jesus was abandoned by everyone on the night before his death. 9 pages.
Holy Week
Digital download: A liturgy for group use, intended as a way of using Holy Saturday within the context of Passion liturgy, by pausing, and reflecting on a world without God, and on our own human losses. 14 pages.
Digital download: A poetic reflection on death and loss, including that of Jesus, for Holy Saturday. 4 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: A reflection on failure and rebuilding for Ash Wednesday and a reflection on ‘standing on the edges’ of things for Lent. 3 pages.
Digital download: An act of remembrance and a sermon for Transgender Day of Remembrance, plus some extra resources. Taken from the book Transgender Christian Human. 17 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: Liturgies, reflections and prayers for Ash Wednesday, from the book Spring, by Ruth Burgess. 20 pages.
Digital download: A song (words and music) and a reflection for Fair Trade Fortnight, taken from the book Spring, by Ruth Burgess. 4 pages.
Digital download: Two poems, two prayers and a reflection for celebrating the start of Spring in February. Taken from the book Spring, by Ruth Burgess. 5 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A service for Christmas Eve – or alternatively Christmas Day – inspired by the poem ‘Getting to the front of the stable’ by Anne Weems. 14 pages.
Sheet music download: A musical setting of Psalm 121, by one of the Iona Abbey musicians. Full score. 2 pages.
All Hallows'
Digital download: Prayers, reflections, liturgies, litanies and activities for celebrating the period around Halloween – including Samhain, All Hallows’ Eve, All Saints’ Day and All Souls’ Day. 43 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A personal and poetic meditative reflection on ageing, with an emphasis on a sense of wonder arising from the seemingly small and but immensely meaningful things of life. 18 pages.