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.
Advent & Christmas
An Advent Calendar with a difference – in the form of a book. Instead of cardboard cut-outs the ‘windows’ we open are word-pictures and stories from the Land called Holy. Readers can respond with prayer.
Advent & Christmas
An Advent Calendar with a difference – in the form of a book. Instead of cardboard cut-outs the ‘windows’ we open are word-pictures and stories from the Land called Holy. Readers can respond with prayer.
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.
Care For Creation
This series of 40 full-colour visionary paintings, poems and reflections highlighting issues of climate justice and asking ‘How can we bring about positive change together?’ was first shown at COP26 by Tearfund. It can be used in a reading or action group, in church worship or for personal contemplation.
Care For Creation
This series of 40 full-colour visionary paintings, poems and reflections highlighting issues of climate justice and asking ‘How can we bring about positive change together?’ was first shown at COP26 by Tearfund. It can be used in a reading or action group, in church worship or for personal contemplation. E-book – PDF only.
Easter Sunday
Digital download: An Eastertide resource for individual reflection or group worship, inspired by a landmark on the Isle of Mull. It can be adapted for other locations, inside and out, online or for a recorded service. 10 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.
Healing
A series of images and poems about moving from anxiety and depression to hope, trust and the ability to relate to the world again. Little Guy journeys with us.
Meditations & Reflections
During the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, many people turned to writing. Human words, sent out across the void of our isolation. Here are the voices of just a few – with poems, psalms, songs, affirmations of faith and prayers written during a full and fraught ten weeks.
Meditations & Reflections
During the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, many people turned to writing. Human words, sent out across the void of our isolation. Here are the voices of just a few – with poems, psalms, songs, affirmations of faith and prayers written during a full and fraught ten weeks.
Healing
A series of images and poems about moving from anxiety and depression to hope, trust and the ability to relate to the world again. Little Guy journeys with us.
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.
Digital download: A reflection on poverty, Jubilee and justice; a dialogue on what poverty does to us all; and an affirmation. 6 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Readings, poems and prayers for Advent, moving between the islands of Mull and Iona and the hills of the West Bank and Jerusalem: places ‘on the edge’ – where God comes to us in human form, as living Word, as light out of darkness.
Advent & Christmas
Readings, poems and prayers for Advent, moving between the islands of Mull and Iona and the hills of the West Bank and Jerusalem: places ‘on the edge’ – where God comes to us in human form, as living Word, as light out of darkness.
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.
All-age resources
Digital download: Prayers and poems by and for children. Whether you're a kid or a kid at heart, we hope you'll find them helpful, comforting, moving, entertaining, fun. 38 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.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A story within a story that can be used on Easter Sunday. It draws on Jan's experiences as a peace monitor in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. 4 pages.
Digital download: A new version (words only) of the traditional Easter hymn 'Jesus Christ is risen today', which provides the first verse. The five new verses unfold the story of the morning of the resurrection. 2 pages.
Candlemas
Digital download: Poems, prayers and meditations which could be used in a daily discipline. Light is a part of life and we are all blessed with it - Light is a lamp in the darkness and a beacon through the storms that life bombards us with on the journey. 42 pages.
Books
Poems of strong and well-crafted connections - between communities in the West of Scotland and the West Bank Palestinian territories; between prayer and politics; between a lyrical delight in the natural world - and down-to-earth living, observed with warmth and humour.
Poems of strong and well-crafted connections - between communities in the West of Scotland and the West Bank Palestinian territories; between prayer and politics; between a lyrical delight in the natural world - and down-to-earth living, observed with warmth and humour.
Digital download: A reporter interviews a grumpy follower of Moses; Joseph meets an angel of the Lord; Simon's mother-in-law is raised up to cook a meal fit for a king; 4000 hungry souls are given a free lunch; and the disciples argue about who is the greatest - Entertaining, thought-provoking resources for worship from storyteller Jan Sutch Pickard. 11 pages.