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.
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.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Eleven poems to reflect on during Passiontide: 'a sacred time of remembering what it means for a friend, and brother, to be betrayed, to be afraid, to be humiliated, to be falsely accused, to be deserted by those who love him ' 10 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.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A reflection on the Beatitudes, encompassing the two different versions that appear in the Bible and two different translations, resulting in a set of ten distilled statements to meditate on during Holy Week or at any other time of the year. Taken from the book The Sun Slowly Rises, by Neil Paynter. 4 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A meditation on Simon of Cyrene (You - yes - you) and a set of poems for Easter Sunday (Love that breaks open stone), taken from the book The Sun Slowly Rises, by Neil Paynter. 7 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A dialogue and a reflection on the amazing possibilities opened up by the taste of bread, and how real solutions to the greed, dependency and oppression of the world are based on deep practices of sharing. 5 pages.
Commitment
Digital download: A service of commitment focusing on the worldwide struggle for justice, of 'defiant grief', in the hope of one day reaching a tipping point in favour of the poor and oppressed of the world. 8 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.
This anthology shares the best of Alastair McIntosh's BBC radio Prayer and Thought for the Day pieces from nearly a decade. Here is that of God, transcendent, yet also here and now, immanent, within the day's hard news. Alastair is a Quaker and author of books including Soil and Soul and Island Spirituality.
This anthology shares the best of Alastair McIntosh's BBC radio Prayer and Thought for the Day pieces from nearly a decade. Here is that of God, transcendent, yet also here and now, immanent, within the day's hard news. Alastair is a Quaker and author of books including Soil and Soul and Island Spirituality.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A reflection with Bible-reading and a poem on the theme of moving forward into the new year and keeping resolutions. Taken from the book Going Home Another Way, by Neil Paynter. 7 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.
Care For Creation
A collection of prayers and poems having its roots in the Gaelic alphabet and in the tradition of understanding Christ as the Alpha and Omega, the Tree of Life.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: short prayers and responses for opening and closing services and gatherings. Taken from the book The Pattern of Our Days, ed. Kathy Galloway. 7 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.
Advent & Christmas
Celebrate Christmas with reflections and prayers for each day of Advent. This effective antidote to the commercialism of the festive season can be used for individual meditation or group worship. The authors are former Wardens of Iona Abbey and the MacLeod Centre on the Isle of Iona.
Advent & Christmas
Celebrate Christmas with reflections and prayers for each day of Advent. This effective antidote to the commercialism of the festive season can be used for individual meditation or group worship. The authors are former Wardens of Iona Abbey and the MacLeod Centre on the Isle of Iona.