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.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A liturgy for Christmas Eve or Christmas Day designed around four monologues which relate to symbols from the Christmas narratives. 13 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.
All-age resources
Digital download: A lively all-age service for Palm Sunday, including a dialogue between the pebbles on the road that Jesus travelled, an exploration of what it means to be a king, and an opportunity to make a crown of thorns from pipe cleaners. 10 pages.
Books
A new collection of poems inspired by the landscapes of Scotland and beyond, and dedicated to Kenneth's late sister, peace activist Helen Steven: 'She was Scotland to me '
Care For Creation
A new collection of poems inspired by the landscapes of Scotland and beyond, and dedicated to Kenneth's late sister, peace activist Helen Steven: 'She was Scotland to me '
All-age resources
Digital download: An all-age communion inspired by the story of St Francis of Assisi. For use on 4th October, the Feast of St Francis, or at other times. Includes a blessing of animals. 11 pages.
A few years ago the world woke up to the fact that people seeking refuge from war and persecution were drowning by their thousands in the Mediterranean. This conversation in poetry offers words for these times of war; ways of wondering what it means to resist; to suffer with; to bear witness; to seek companionship; to be part of the agony of a family made in love, and parting, separated by land, sea and paperwork.
A few years ago the world woke up to the fact that people seeking refuge from war and persecution were drowning by their thousands in the Mediterranean. This conversation in poetry offers words for these times of war; ways of wondering what it means to resist; to suffer with; to bear witness; to seek companionship; to be part of the agony of a family made in love, and parting, separated by land, sea and paperwork.
CDs - audiobooks & performance
Poetry and music inspired by the landscape of the island of Iona. For those who know Iona as much as for those who have always wanted to find a way of reaching Columba's holy isle.
MP3 audio downloads
Poetry and music inspired by the landscape of the island of Iona. For those who know Iona as much as for those who have always wanted to find a way of reaching Columba's holy isle.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: An all-age service for starting a new year, focusing on the Magi's visit to Jesus and the amazing gifts they brought, and how to choose a gift for God for the coming year - a kind of new year's resolution from the heart. 10 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: An all-age service exploring the different meanings of love and the story of the Prodigal Son. It also includes one of Nancy's Fergie the Frog stories and a symbolic action involving paper, scissors and an amazing expanding heart. 12 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: Another of Nancy's lively communion services for all ages, this time for Easter Sunday and incorporating a rooster's view of the Resurrection. The author is a former Deputy Warden of Iona Abbey. 13 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.
All-age resources
Digital download: Another fun all-age service, this time for Lent, focusing on bread and including a drama script and a child-friendly communion service. 14 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: An all-age service for Advent centred on light. It incorporates another of Nancy's 'Fergie the Frog' stories as a script. 14 pages.
All Saints' Day
Digital download: An all-age service about what makes a saint and where they are to be found - mainly in the world all around us. Incorporates the story of the five loaves and two fishes. 6 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: A lively service about friendship, for all ages, including one of the author's 'Fergie the Frog' stories, a 'Jesus & Peter' dialogue on the model of those created by the Wild Goose Resource Group, a version of the story of Zacchaeus, friendship bracelets and more besides. Nancy is a former Deputy Warden of Iona Abbey. 12 pages.
All-age resources
Digital download: A service for all ages about not having enough to eat and about being hungry to share what we have. Includes a drawing/colouring activity. Nancy is a former Deputy Warden of Iona Abbey. 9 pages.
These haiku-like poems arise out of Kenneth Steven's perception of the Iona landscape. They have the sense of wonder, seeing, and being in the moment that many of us experience when spending time on this jewel-like island in a turquoise sea.
Books
These haiku-like poems arise out of Kenneth Steven's perception of the Iona landscape. They have the sense of wonder, seeing, and being in the moment that many of us experience when spending time on this jewel-like island in a turquoise sea.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A service of waiting and hope, built around the prophecies of Jeremiah and also linked to the theme of water and baptism. From the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 8 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A service for the dawn of Easter Sunday, ideal for the open air rather than inside a church building. A special time of the morning on a very special day. From the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 11 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Meditations for Good Friday based on experiences of Iona Community island staff who have worked with people on the edge socially, economically and emotionally. Each meditation includes reference to a Bible passage and can be used for personal reflection or as part of a service. From the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 16 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A simple service of lamentation for Good Friday that can be used by groups of 10 or 12 people in various locations such as people's homes or in different parts of a church building. From the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 8 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: An extensive Stations of the Cross with, at each station, a Bible reading and a testimony from a person who witnessed one of the events in the story. This is very much a community event in which everyone can be involved. Taken from the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 40 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A ceremony of foot-washing, Agape or Communion, the stripping of the church, and a vigil for 'the disappeared' and for prisoners of conscience. Taken from the book The Cross in the Marketplace. 13 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A service for the day when Jesus demonstrates what his claim to messiahship really means and what his Kingdom is really about - for committing ourselves to the values of the upside-down Kingdom of the unlikely Messiah Jesus, who stands today in the heart of the military-industrial complex and declares: 'Peace.' Taken from the book The Cross in the Marketplace, by Dave Broom. 7 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A pilgrimage for the start of Holy Week, mainly in the form of dramatic scripts for each stopping point. Although based on the weekly Iona pilgrimage, it can be adapted for any local environment, including urban ones, or even be used within the church itself. Taken from the book The Cross in the Marketplace, by Dave Broom. 34 pages.