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.
Advent & Christmas
A poem for Christmas by Kathy Galloway, a former Leader of the Iona Community. 3 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.
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: A short liturgy of prayer and blessing for the end of the day, from the Iona Prayer Circle, a worldwide network that prays for people and places in distress. With additional material. 8 pages.
Difficult times
For a Person with a Chronic Long-Term Illness (PDF download)
Digital download: A liturgy for those who are suffering long-term pain or illness. With additional material. 10 pages.
Iona Prayer Circle
Digital download: A short liturgy addressing the wounds of our world and the dark places where people suffer and are oppressed. 7 pages.
Difficult times
Digital download: A liturgy to support someone who is facing a difficult choice, created by the Iona Prayer Circle, a worldwide network that prays for people and places in distress. 10 pages.
Digital download: A short liturgy for someone who has suffered abuse, injustice or cruelty at the hands of others, created by the Iona Prayer Circle, a worldwide network that prays for people and places in distress. 9 pages.
Digital download: A short liturgy in support of someone who is walking the last road of life, created by the Iona Prayer Circle, a worldwide network that prays for people and places in distress. 12 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A short liturgy of thanksgiving, for small-group or individual prayer, created by the Iona Prayer Circle, a worldwide network that prays for people and places in distress. No. 1 of a 'Liturgies for Healing' series. 9 pages.
Iona Prayer Circle
Digital download: A short liturgy for a sick child, for small-group or individual prayer, created by the Iona Prayer Circle, a worldwide network that prays for people and places in distress. No. 2 of a 'Liturgies for Healing' series. 11 pages.
Difficult times
Digital download: A short liturgy for a troubled family situation, for small-group or individual prayer, created by the Iona Prayer Circle, a worldwide network that prays for people and places in distress. No. 3 in a series of 'Liturgies for healing'. 9 pages.
This inspiring anthology of liturgies and worship resources, reflecting the life and witness of the Iona Community, originally published in 1996, is intended to encourage creativity in worship.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: The passion which Iona still evokes, its enduring hold on the religious imagination, demands a deeper questioning than that suggested by a long-ago saint in an obscure location. At least part of the answer lies in the appeal of what has come to be known as Celtic Christianity. Kathy Galloway shows how numerous factors come together to support a grounded and engaged spirituality.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: Bible readings and a reflection for Christmas Day, taken from the book Going Home Another Way, by Neil Paynter. 5 pages
A series of reflections on living by the Rule of the Iona Community, exploring its history, inner life and public witness.
Books
A series of reflections on living by the Rule of the Iona Community, exploring its history, inner life and public witness.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Hope and renewal in times of change: four Exodus liturgies (PDF Download)
Digital download: Four liturgies - Home, Exile, Desert, Promised Land - which can be used on separate occasions or as one whole act of worship. Thematically they are appropriate for a number of contexts and life passages. Taken from the book The Pattern of Our Days, ed. Kathy Galloway. 15 pages
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A liturgy for victims of violence and exclusion, taken from the book Praying for the Dawn by Ruth Burgess and Kathy Galloway.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Reflections for each day of Holy Week, taken from The Dream of Learning Our True Name, by Kathy Galloway. 21 pages.
Meditations & Reflections
These poems provide a powerful resource for personal contemplation and many of them can be used in a group or worship setting.
Books
Creativity of all kinds, in art, in prayer, in justice-making, in human relationships, is born where people wrestle with angels, outside Eden, on the border between heaven and earth, where they struggle to create a new form, a new song, a new template, a new ethic with all the discipline and passion they can bring to bear.