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.
Transgender Anglican priest Rachel Mann tells the story of how she searched for her authentic self, dying many kinds of ‘death’ in the process and discovering that darkness is as much a positive place as a negative one. New revised edition with added material.
Transgender Anglican priest Rachel Mann tells the story of how she searched for her authentic self, dying many kinds of ‘death’ in the process and discovering that darkness is as much a positive place as a negative one. New revised edition with added material.
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.
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: Thoughtful and insightful reflections and prayers for each day of Holy Week. 13 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: Readings, reflections and prayers for each of the four weeks of Advent. 13 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Readings, reflections and prayers for each day of Holy Week up to Easter Monday. 9 pages.
Reflections, meditations, prayers, activities and liturgies for Lent. Includes a liturgy for Mother's Day, worship for Ash Wednesday, an all-age service for Shrove Tuesday for making and sharing pancakes, and other all-age resources -
Books
Reflections, meditations, prayers, activities and liturgies for Lent. Includes a liturgy for Mother's Day, worship for Ash Wednesday, an all-age service for Shrove Tuesday for making and sharing pancakes, and other all-age resources -
Advent & Christmas
Poetry, liturgy and narrative resources on beloved Advent and Christmas themes, questioning the cosy and sentimental view of the festive season and taking seriously the idea that God in Christ is born as a vulnerable outsider who transforms the world in radical ways.
Advent & Christmas
Poetry, liturgy and narrative resources on beloved Advent and Christmas themes, questioning the cosy and sentimental view of the festive season and taking seriously the idea that God in Christ is born as a vulnerable outsider who transforms the world in radical ways.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A liturgy celebrating the Feast of the Transfiguration which coincidentally falls on the day that the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. The 'shining power' of the Transfiguration is compared with the 'reverse transfiguration' of the prioritisation of nuclear weapons over human needs. A liturgy of commitment to standing on the edge and working for a transformation to another, more creative and just, world. 6 pages.
Reflections, meditations, prayers and liturgies for Holy Week following the journey of Jesus from Palm Sunday to Easter Day. A book which affirms that, even in the darkness of betrayal and denial and death, we can rise up and live different lives: where the justice, peace and love poured out in Christ's life can be resurrected in our own.
Books
Reflections, meditations, prayers and liturgies for Holy Week following the journey of Jesus from Palm Sunday to Easter Day. A book which affirms that, even in the darkness of betrayal and denial and death, we can rise up and live different lives: where the justice, peace and love poured out in Christ's life can be resurrected in our own.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Prayers, Meditations, Reflections and Activities for Lent (PDF download)
Digital download: A variety of worship and group resources for the Lent period, including a couple of all-age activities. 18 pages.
Ash Wednesday
Digital download: A meditative liturgy (but including practical actions) and a reflection for celebrating Ash Wednesday and entering a sacred season. 8 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
What is Valuable and True: A liturgy for economic witness (PDF download)
Digital download: At a time when the gap between rich and poor is widening in many Western societies and the poor everywhere are increasingly oppressed, this liturgy for economic witness is a call for justice and to remind ourselves of what it means to act with compassion and generosity. 9 pages.
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What is Valuable and True: A liturgy for economic witness (PDF+PPT download)
Digital download: At a time when the gap between rich and poor is widening in many Western societies and the poor everywhere are increasingly oppressed, this liturgy for economic witness is a call for justice and to remind ourselves of what it means to act with compassion and generosity. PDF+PowerPoint formats.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A full liturgy for Mother's Day - a meditation on God as mother, on the creative imagination of the divine, and ourselves as the children of God's love. 6 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Each of the seven utterances of Jesus from the cross, together with a prayer reflecting on each. Peter is a former Warden of Iona Abbey. 4 pages.
Books
A book about the original Pearls of Life bracelet. There is a now a new version of the Pearls (available from Verbum Sweden at: https://www.verbum.se/fralsarkransen/fralsarkransen-av-glas-p52634417) where one of the beads is a different colour, but most of this book is still relevant.
Advent & Christmas
An Advent collection of prayers, meditations, poems and a few wee plays. A rich resource, from an original voice, for personal reflection and for congregations and small groups searching for material relevant to the 21st century. The author is Associate Minister at Dunblane Cathedral and Convener of the Church and Society Council of the Church of Scotland.