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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Digital download: A Communion liturgy for everyone - carrying baggage, hurts and bitterness or not: 'This is a table that needs no turning. It's already topsy-turvy. Rank means nothing, privilege is simply being human. It's the top of all top tables and at once the lowest and most accessible.' 8 pages. Combined PDF and PowerPoint version also available.
A Communion liturgy for everyone - carrying baggage, hurts and bitterness or not: 'This is a table that needs no turning. It's already topsy-turvy. Rank means nothing, privilege is simply being human. It's the top of all top tables and at once the lowest and most accessible.' 8 pages/29 slides. PDF-only version also available.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Moving and insightful prayers and poems for Easter Day and beyond, up to Pentecost, taken from the book The Green Heart of the Snowdrop, by Kate McIlhagga. 22 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Intimate, insightful prayers and poems for the period of Lent, taken from the book The Green Heart of the Snowdrop, by Kate McIlhagga. 25 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A Bible reading, a reflection and a prayer on the theme of change and ageing. Taken from the book Going Home Another Way, by Neil Paynter.,4 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A Bible reading, a reflection and a prayer on the theme of standing up to earthly Powers and speaking out for justice. Taken from the book Going Home Another Way, by Neil Paynter. 5 pages.
Meditations & Reflections
The best of Kate McIlhagga's work in one collection. Includes poems and prayers of gathering and beginning; creation and self; Advent and Epiphany; Lent and mothering; Easter and Pentecost; pilgrimage and endings and blessings.
Digital download: A short service of grief, anger and thanks to mark the birth of a stillborn child, taken from the book The Pattern of Our Days, ed. Kathy Galloway. 2 pages
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A Christingle service plus a song for the service, taken from the book Candles & Conifers by Ruth Burgess. 6 pages.
Difficult times
Digital download: A liturgy for those facing serious illness, taken from the book Praying for the Dawn by Ruth Burgess and Kathy Galloway.
The best of Kate McIlhagga's work in one collection. Includes poems and prayers of gathering and beginning; creation and self; Advent and Epiphany; Lent and mothering; Easter and Pentecost; pilgrimage and endings and blessings.