Easter Sunday
Digital download: A poem for Easter Sunday. 2 pages.
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.
Digital download: A reflection to help hear God’s healing voice for all caregivers who may feel wearied by the task. 2 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.
A series of Bible readings, prayers and colour images for each day of Lent and Holy Week, to invite reflection, contemplation and action in the world.
Books
A series of Bible readings, prayers and colour images for each day of Lent and Holy Week, to invite reflection, contemplation and action in the world.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A Bible reading, a reflection and a prayer for Maundy Thursday, centred around a story of homelessness, shame and self-loathing from the author's work as a Street Pastor. Taken from the book The Sun Slowly Rises, by Neil Paynter. 6 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A script for six voices to use at the beginning of an Advent service. 5 pages.
A welcome accompaniment to the Advent days of anticipating Christ's birth. Follow its invitation of prophetic prayers and vibrant full-colour artwork to watch and wait for the coming of the Holy One. Open your eyes and heart to the wideness of God, and God's gentle but persistent call for justice and mercy.
Advent & Christmas
A welcome accompaniment to the Advent days of anticipating Christ's birth. Follow its invitation of prophetic prayers and vibrant full-colour artwork to watch and wait for the coming of the Holy One. Open your eyes and heart to the wideness of God, and God's gentle but persistent call for justice and mercy.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Four substantial meditative prayers for Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday. 6 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A meditative prayer for Valentine's day, giving thanks for love and the 'goodness at the heart of humanity, planted more deeply than all that is wrong'. 3 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A short meditation based on the parable of the Good Samaritan which could be used following the reading of this story from the Bible. 1 page.
Daily life
Digital download: Reflections on our own emotional needs and challenges, from forgiveness to freedom, through the story of Peter's denial and other biblical characters. Knowing God as provider helps us to move into maturity in our dealings with other people. Taken from the book Wild Goose Chase: Exploring the spirituality of everyday life, by Annie Heppenstall. 18 pages.
Daily life
Digital download: Biblical reflections and intercessionary prayers relating to various aspects of daily life, aimed at bringing those for whom we pray into a triangular relationship with ourselves and God. Taken from the book Wild Goose Chase: Exploring the spirituality of everyday life, by Annie Heppenstall. 21 pages.
Daily life
Digital download: Reflections on being with God through cycles and passing of time - for each day of the week and different times of the day. Includes biblical quotes and references, reflections and points of focus, and a canticle and a prayer for each day or time. Taken from the book Wild Goose Chase: Exploring the spirituality of everyday life, by Annie Heppenstall. 24 pages.
Digital download: Meditations on the lives of some ordinary people from the Bible, using the haiku format, and a suggestion for using this method for contemplation on any chosen theme. Taken from the book Wild Goose Chase: Exploring the spirituality of everyday life, by Annie Heppenstall. 4 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Contemplations that use a focus on various parts of the body as a device for bringing ourselves into the present moment. Each section includes a Bible quote and references, a discussion, reflective activities and a prayer. Taken from the book Wild Goose Chase: Exploring the spirituality of everyday life, by Annie Heppenstall. 25 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A Bible study that looks at how hierarchy in the church is a late and dodgy development. At Pentecost a community of brothers and sisters in Christ came into being 'all one in Christ Jesus'. 5 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A biblical reflection on the true meaning and application of fasting in Lent, and the similarities between preparing for Easter and a certain TV ballroom-dancing contest. 4 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A participative liturgy on love, designed to be carried out in a circle around a low table. Includes preparation notes. 11 pages.
All Saints' Day
Digital download: Worship and reflective resources for All Saints' Day, with an emphasis on the saintliness of ordinary people.
Ian Fraser has been a prophet in our land - and far beyond - for the lifetimes of most of us. Here he reflects on the banking crisis and the world order, getting rid of war, Israel and Palestine, the USA and Cuba, fundamentalism, proselytism and evangelism, law and grace, the theology of fashion and much more.
Communion
Digital download: From the book Wild Goose Chase, by Annie Heppenstall, this is a radical (in the true sense of the word) way in which a group of 'ordinary' people can share thanksgiving with confidence, drawing from the roots and scriptures of our faith, using a structure which follows a traditional act of worship. 11 pages.
City living
Digital download: A litany for walking the streets of a city, taken from the book Wild Goose Chase, by Annie Heppenstall. The author says, 'The litany arose out of a desire within our church community to surround the area with prayer following a street shooting. So a group began to meet to walk quietly around the area, stopping at significant places to pray, to sing and to light candles.' 5 pages.