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.
Funerals
Digital download: A simple liturgy of reflections, prayers and poems to remember someone who has died and to begin to let go of them. 11 pages.
Digital download: Worship resources for weddings, including prayers, blessings and a section on suggestions for the wedding sermon along with three sample sermons. 23 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: A reflection and a prayer relating to racism and the need to work for racial justice. 6 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: A thoughtful service for Good Friday featuring seven voices dispersed among the congregation. 7 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
A Reflection, Prayer and Pledge for International Women’s Day (PDF download)
Digital download: All the evidence is that gender equality leads to better decisions, fairer policies, more participation, prosperity and peace. International Women's Day presents a challenge to us all - let's reflect, pray and pledge for a radical transformation of the current world order. 12 pages.
Sheet music download: A song for children and all-age worship which has emerged from the composer's work with young people and has been 'extensively road-tested with real living children'. Sheet music and words - 2 pages.
Sheet music download: A song for children and all-age worship which has emerged from the composer's work with young people and has been 'extensively road-tested with real living children'. Sheet music and words - 2 pages.
Sheet music download: A song for children and all-age worship which has emerged from the composer's work with young people and has been 'extensively road-tested with real living children'. From the 'Every Single Creature' collection. Sheet music and words - 2 pages.
Sheet music download: A song for children and all-age worship which has emerged from the composer's work with young people and has been 'extensively road-tested with real living children'. Sheet music and words - 3 pages.
Sheet music download: Four catchy songs for children and all-age worship which have emerged from the composer's work with young people and have been 'extensively road-tested with real living children'. Sheet music and words - 9 pages. Also available as individual songs.
Advent & Christmas
PowerPoint download: An evening liturgy for the darkest time of the year, looking forward to the coming of the light of Christ. 15 slides.
Advent & Christmas
Combined PDF and PowerPoint download: An evening liturgy for the darkest time of the year, looking forward to the coming of the light of Christ. 6 pages/15 slides.
Advent & Christmas
PDF download: An evening liturgy for the darkest time of the year, looking forward to the coming of the light of Christ. 6 pages. Also available as a PowerPoint download.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Beyond the Baggage of Fatherhood: A liturgy for Father’s Day (PDF download)
Digital download: A liturgy for Father's Day, including two songs. The Bible is an uneasy place to find out about fathers - stories of human failure and frailty abound. Yet Joseph does not abandon Mary when he finds out that she is mysteriously pregnant - And Jesus dares to call God 'Father'. Repeatedly. - What if fathering has a future beyond the bounds of patriarchal oppression? 8 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Beyond the Baggage of Fatherhood: A liturgy for Father’s Day (PDF+PPT download)
Digital download: A liturgy for Father's Day, including two songs. The Bible is an uneasy place to find out about fathers - stories of human failure and frailty abound. Yet Joseph does not abandon Mary when he finds out that she is mysteriously pregnant - And Jesus dares to call God 'Father'. Repeatedly. - What if fathering has a future beyond the bounds of patriarchal oppression? PDF+PowerPoint download.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Moving and insightful prayers and poems for Easter Day and beyond, up to Pentecost, taken from the book The Green Heart of the Snowdrop, by Kate McIlhagga. 22 pages.
E- Liturgies & Prayers
Digital download: Intimate, insightful prayers and poems for the period of Lent, taken from the book The Green Heart of the Snowdrop, by Kate McIlhagga. 25 pages.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: Short responses, meditations and Bible readings on giving and receiving at Christmas. Suggested songs are from We Walk His Way and Come All You People songbooks by John L Bell. 6 pages.
Meditations & Reflections
The best of Kate McIlhagga's work in one collection. Includes poems and prayers of gathering and beginning; creation and self; Advent and Epiphany; Lent and mothering; Easter and Pentecost; pilgrimage and endings and blessings.
Digital download: A short service of grief, anger and thanks to mark the birth of a stillborn child, taken from the book The Pattern of Our Days, ed. Kathy Galloway. 2 pages
Difficult times
Digital download: A liturgy for those facing serious illness, taken from the book Praying for the Dawn by Ruth Burgess and Kathy Galloway.
The best of Kate McIlhagga's work in one collection. Includes poems and prayers of gathering and beginning; creation and self; Advent and Epiphany; Lent and mothering; Easter and Pentecost; pilgrimage and endings and blessings.