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 & 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.
Digital download: A collection of resources created by members of the Iona Community’s LGBTQ+ Common Concern Network as a reflection of all that they seek to celebrate and affirm. Includes prayers, poems, reflections and songs. 36 pages.
Digital download: Resources for Trans Day of Remembrance on November 20th. Includes an invocation, a reading, a reflection, an act of remembrance, a letting go activity and intercessions. 8 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.
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.
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.
The life story (so far) of Alex Clare-Young, the first out transgender minister in the United Reformed Church. Includes resources and activities to encourage individuals and groups to explore the subject of gender identity.
The life story (so far) of Alex Clare-Young, the first out transgender minister in the United Reformed Church. Includes resources and activities to encourage individuals and groups to explore the subject of gender identity.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Feminist poet and theologian Nicola Slee reflects on the implications of the Resurrection for Mary Magdelene and all of us, with reference to a personal 'near-death' experience in her own family. Taken from the book The Sun Slowly Rises, by Neil Paynter. 5 pages.
Digital download: A Bible reading, a reflection and a prayer for Holy Saturday. A world of justice and peace is not yet here, but we build it every time we speak up for justice, every time we act to change the system. Taken from the book The Sun Slowly Rises, by Neil Paynter. 4 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: A service which invites us to prepare for Lent. Whether we have been at the edge of the wilderness before or not, we are all different people from who we were last year, and the journey through Lent allows us to reflect and to be renewed. 11 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Some reflections and a word for each week of Lent, as an aid to meditating on the meaning of this season and with the possibility of keeping a journal of reflection. 9 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
A Reflection, Prayer and Pledge for International Women’s Day (PDF download)
Digital download: All the evidence is that gender equality leads to better decisions, fairer policies, more participation, prosperity and peace. International Women's Day presents a challenge to us all - let's reflect, pray and pledge for a radical transformation of the current world order. 12 pages.
Communion
PowerPoint download: An Easter Sunday Communion service celebrating not only the resurrection but also the transforming power of love and life. A call to embrace new, vibrant possibilities and radical living. 26 slides. Also available in PDF format and combined PDF+PPT.
Communion
Combined PDF and PowerPoint download: An Easter Sunday Communion service celebrating not only the resurrection but also the transforming power of love and life. A call to embrace new, vibrant possibilities and radical living. 8 pages / 26 slides. Also available in separate PDF and PowerPoint formats.
Communion
Digital download: A Communion service for Lent, focusing on journeying through the desert, exploring our own uncharted places and making new choices for the future. 7 pages. PowerPoint version also available.
Communion
Digital download: A Communion service for Lent, focusing on journeying through the desert, exploring our own uncharted places and making new choices for the future. 21 slides. PDF version also available.
Digital download: A Communion service for Lent, focusing on journeying through the desert, exploring our own uncharted places and making new choices for the future. 7 pages/21 slides. Separate PowerPoint and PDF versions also available.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
PDF download: A Communion liturgy for celebrating Epiphany, encouraging us to recognise the presence of God and the radical possibilities flowing from that understanding. 7 pages. PowerPoint version also available.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
PowerPoint download: A Communion liturgy for celebrating Epiphany, encouraging us to recognise the presence of God and the radical possibilities flowing from that understanding. 26 slides. PowerPoint version also available.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download (PDF+PowerPoint): A Communion liturgy for celebrating Epiphany, encouraging us to recognise the presence of God and the radical possibilities flowing from that understanding. 7 pages/26 slides.
Digital download: A hymn for Advent - words only - to be sung to the tune 'Little Cornard'. 1 page, 4 verses.
Advent & Christmas
PowerPoint download now available of this previously published Christmas Communion liturgy from Iona. 25 slides.
Advent & Christmas
PDF + PowerPoint download now available of this previously published Christmas Communion liturgy from Iona. 7 pages, 25 slides.
Digital download: A Communion service for Pentecost, with an emphasis on Spirit and time. 7 pages
Digital download: A Communion service for Pentecost, with an emphasis on Spirit and time. PDF and PowerPoint formats.