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.
Holy Week
Digital download: A reflection and a meditation on drinking the bittersweet cup of life. 5 pages.
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
Father's Day
Digital download: Reflections, a poem and a prayer for Father’s Day. 10 pages.
Digital download: A hymn (words only) written for COP26 but which can be used in any service with a theme of environmental concerns. 2 pages.
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.
Healing
Reassurance for those living with loss. How to help people cope with bereavement, and adapt to the change and challenge of the losses in their lives.
Reassurance for those living with loss. How to help people cope with bereavement, and adapt to the change and challenge of the losses in their lives.
Digital download: Stories, prayers and actions for International Women’s Day designed for a small group of women, although the resources can also be adapted for individual reflection, prayer and action. 12 pages.
Mothering Sunday
Digital download: Five poems by Tom Gordon dedicated to mothers and mothering. 7 pages.
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.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: A reflection on failure and rebuilding for Ash Wednesday and a reflection on ‘standing on the edges’ of things for Lent. 3 pages.
Issues & Inspirations
A guide to a pilgrimage route in one of the most majestic landscapes in the UK, that of the Lake District. Also provides an historical backdrop to the region and St Kentigern, who is also known as St Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow.
Prayer & Worship
A guide to a pilgrimage route in one of the most majestic landscapes in the UK, that of the Lake District. Also provides an historical backdrop to the region and St Kentigern, who is also known as St Mungo, the patron saint of Glasgow.
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.
A year of daily readings, offering simple and direct reflections for facing the joys and sorrows, challenges and decisions of each day.
Books
A year of daily readings, offering simple and direct reflections for facing the joys and sorrows, challenges and decisions of each day.
Digital download: A collection of stories based on the author's 'remembered Bible' technique, which adds unexpected layers and aspects to the accounts - for both remembering women in the Bible and remembering the Bible with women (and men). 26 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A reflection, a poem and a prayer for Good Friday on the hope beyond the despair of the day and the mystery of the torn veil of the temple. Taken from the book The Sun Slowly Rises, by Neil Paynter. 6 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A poetic reflection on the incarnation of Christ. You kept your appointment, just like you said you would - 3 pages.
Creation & Environment
Digital download: A collection of readings, prayers and poems for World Oceans Day (8th June). 19 pages.
Digital download: Reflections, stories and prayers for World AIDS Day (December 1st), an occasion for showing support for those who live with HIV and remembering those who have died, for dealing with our prejudices as well as the disease. World AIDS Day is about people, and, in our common humanity, we remember that they are people like us. 18 pages.
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.
Difficult times
Digital download: Reflections, prayers, stories, poems and a hymn addressing the plight of modern-day refugees, who yearn for community and security, who long to be settled and live in peace. 18 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Readings and reflections exploring the importance of friendship in our lives. For use on the UN International Day of Friendship, but also in any service on the theme of friendship. 13 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.