E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Reflections, monologues, songs, drama scripts, stories, biblical reflections and a poem and a prayer for exploring the resurrection appearances of Jesus. Taken from the book Summer by Ruth Burgess. 43 pages.
Easter Sunday
Digital download: A poem for Easter Sunday. 2 pages.
Digital download: Four liturgies focusing on trans affirmation inspired by the International Transgender Day of Visibility. They explicitly celebrate trans and non-binary people and include a trans naming liturgy. 23 pages.
Inspiration for each day of Lent, Holy Week, Advent, Christmas and beyond, including short passages from scripture, reflective poems, suggestions for meditation or action, and short prayers.
Meditations
Digital download: Jesus is called the Lord of the Dance. This is a short meditation/poem on dancing with Jesus, inspired by Matthew 16:1-6. 2 pages.
Meditations & Reflections
Finding Our Way Back, Praying Our Way Forward (Downloadable book)
Inspiration for each day of Lent, Holy Week, Advent, Christmas and beyond, including short passages from scripture, reflective poems, suggestions for meditation or action, and short prayers.
Holy Week
Digital download: A reflection and a meditation on drinking the bittersweet cup of life. 5 pages.
Healing
Liturgical and practical resources from Iona Community members, friends and others designed to create more awareness and understanding about mental health.
Liturgical and practical resources from Iona Community members, friends and others designed to create more awareness and understanding about mental health.
Palm Sunday
Digital download: A liturgy for Passion Sunday. 7 pages.
Palm Sunday
Digital download: A liturgy for Palm Sunday. 8 pages.
Palm Sunday
Digital download: A poem for Palm Sunday to inspire us to meditate on that day in our own locale. 2 pages.
Lent & Easter
Digital download: Four poems exploring the temptations of Jesus in the wilderness. 7 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: An evening service for Ash Wednesday with optional imposition of ashes. 9 pages.
Meditations & Reflections
Poems written during an emotional time of absence and loss. Out of the shadows, the darkness, and often the injustice, the need to lament and mourn goes hand in hand with the special significance of small moments and ordinary occasions.
Meditations & Reflections
Poems written during an emotional time of absence and loss. Out of the shadows, the darkness, and often the injustice, the need to lament and mourn goes hand in hand with the special significance of small moments and ordinary occasions.
Advent & Christmas
A poem for Christmas by Kathy Galloway, a former Leader of the Iona Community. 3 pages.
Songbooks
One hundred 21st-century hymn texts by John L Bell & Graham Maule that can be sung to familiar tunes - making the most of minimal congregational song resources in an accessible and resilient way.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A reflection, meditation and prayer relating to the three gifts offered to the baby Jesus by the ‘wise men from the East’. 5 pages
Advent & Christmas
An Advent Calendar with a difference – in the form of a book. Instead of cardboard cut-outs the ‘windows’ we open are word-pictures and stories from the Land called Holy. Readers can respond with prayer.
Advent & Christmas
An Advent Calendar with a difference – in the form of a book. Instead of cardboard cut-outs the ‘windows’ we open are word-pictures and stories from the Land called Holy. Readers can respond with prayer.
All Hallows'
Digital download: Two liturgies, two reflections and a prayer for All Hallows’ Eve, taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 9 pages.
John Bell & Wild Goose Resource Group
Twenty-five meditations covering personal, pastoral and biblical themes. Written to be read where people are gathered, they can be used in congregational worship, or with smaller assemblies such as prayer groups, youth fellowships and housegroups.
John Bell & Wild Goose Resource Group
Ten Things They Never Told Me About Jesus (Downloadable book)
Explores facets of the personal life, relationships and ministry of Jesus which are seldom the stuff of preaching or conversation, but which are all rooted in the Gospels and are necessary if we are to be freed from the passive stereotypes which still dominate thinking about Christ.
Digital download: A liturgy for Remembrance Sunday with an emphasis on the need for peace. Also includes an extensive section of additional resources and suggestions, as well as an optional symbolic action for children. 34 pages.
Digital download: Poems and reflections on Autumn during October, taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 13 pages.
Digital download: Reflections, poems, songs and a prayer about the time of falling leaves, taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 9 pages.
Digital download: A collection of prayers, including responsive prayers, focusing on autumn, taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 8 pages.
Five orders for an Agape or love feast that originated in one of the Iona Community’s family groups. In this time of accelerating change, the Agape is coming into its own again … 28 pages.
Harvest
Digital download: Prayers, responsive prayers, reflections and a song for Harvest, taken from the book Autumn, by Ruth Burgess. 15 pages.