Holy Week
Digital download: A series of short reflections and prayers that might be used before – or during – a simple meal each evening of Holy Week. 4 pages.
Good Friday
Digital download: A group activity to reflect on some of the things that people other than Jesus said on Good Friday. 3 pages.
Good Friday
Digital download: A poetic reflection on the journey of Jesus along the Via Dolorosa. 3 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.
Easter Sunday
Digital download: An Eastertide resource for individual reflection or group worship, inspired by a landmark on the Isle of Mull. It can be adapted for other locations, inside and out, online or for a recorded service. 10 pages.
Songbooks
A collection of contemporary hymns for services of commitment, communion, justice and peace, and healing; for weddings, confirmations, funerals and memorial services; and for the seasons of Advent and Christmas, Holy Week and Easter. Special offer: get the PDF e-book version for £2 when you buy it with the print version.
A collection of contemporary hymns for services of commitment, communion, justice and peace, and healing; for weddings, confirmations, funerals and memorial services; and for the seasons of Advent and Christmas, Holy Week and Easter. Special offer: get the PDF e-book version for £2 when you buy it with the print version.
Saints & others
Digital download: A liturgy for St Benedict’s Day focusing on creating holy space, offering holy service and living holy communion. Suitable for a wide range of ages and for use by small groups or individuals. 6 pages.
Meditations & Reflections
During the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, many people turned to writing. Human words, sent out across the void of our isolation. Here are the voices of just a few – with poems, psalms, songs, affirmations of faith and prayers written during a full and fraught ten weeks.
Meditations & Reflections
During the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, many people turned to writing. Human words, sent out across the void of our isolation. Here are the voices of just a few – with poems, psalms, songs, affirmations of faith and prayers written during a full and fraught ten weeks.
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.
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.
Advent & Christmas
Readings, poems and prayers for Advent, moving between the islands of Mull and Iona and the hills of the West Bank and Jerusalem: places ‘on the edge’ – where God comes to us in human form, as living Word, as light out of darkness.
Advent & Christmas
Readings, poems and prayers for Advent, moving between the islands of Mull and Iona and the hills of the West Bank and Jerusalem: places ‘on the edge’ – where God comes to us in human form, as living Word, as light out of darkness.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A dialogue/drama script involving humans, God and plenty of sheep, giving an alternative view of Christmas and life in general. 6 pages.
Christ the King Sunday
Digital download: A thoughtful prayer of approach for celebrating the Feast of Christ the King. 3 pages.
Blessings
Digital download: Opening responses, a reflection and a blessing for a new (or 'new' used) car. 5 pages.
Digital download: A new version (words only) of the traditional Easter hymn 'Jesus Christ is risen today', which provides the first verse. The five new verses unfold the story of the morning of the resurrection. 2 pages.
Books
Poems of strong and well-crafted connections - between communities in the West of Scotland and the West Bank Palestinian territories; between prayer and politics; between a lyrical delight in the natural world - and down-to-earth living, observed with warmth and humour.
Poems of strong and well-crafted connections - between communities in the West of Scotland and the West Bank Palestinian territories; between prayer and politics; between a lyrical delight in the natural world - and down-to-earth living, observed with warmth and humour.
All-age resources
Digital download: All-age resources for baptisms and for celebrating 'Baptismas' ('Like Christmas; only for Baptism'). School chaplain Janet Lees thinks that church is generally far too predictable and delights in creating, along with her pupils, new approaches to old themes. 9 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: A poem and a prayer for Ascension and some suggested all-age activities, prayers and songs for Pentecost. 4 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: A selection of resources for Lent and Easter for children and young people, arising from the work of Janet Lees as Chaplain of Silcoates School, Wakefield. Janet uses her own 'remembered Bible' method to help people reclaim the Bible as their own. 24 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A meditation on the Advent/Christmas story that can be used as part of an all-age act of worship, such as a carol service. 3 pages.