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.
Blessings
Digital download: Fifteen prayers inspired by the interior of church buildings, seven of which can be used to dedicate a place of worship and the others used for more personal reflection, ending with a prayer for the city, town or village. 10 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.
Advent & Christmas
Digital download: A dialogue between the three Wise Men about the meaning of the new star and the implications of the birth that it foretells. 6 pages.
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Digital download: A reflection on the Beatitudes, encompassing the two different versions that appear in the Bible and two different translations, resulting in a set of ten distilled statements to meditate on during Holy Week or at any other time of the year. Taken from the book The Sun Slowly Rises, by Neil Paynter. 4 pages.
Books
Witty and reflective poems of faith and doubt, ranging from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden to the events of the first Easter, taking in on the way Julian of Norwich's hazelnut, Mastermind, God as a blizzard, and the eighth deadly sin.
Witty and reflective poems of faith and doubt, ranging from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden to the events of the first Easter, taking in on the way Julian of Norwich's hazelnut, Mastermind, God as a blizzard, and the eighth deadly sin.
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Digital download: A thoughtful service for Good Friday featuring seven voices dispersed among the congregation. 7 pages.
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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.
This anthology shares the best of Alastair McIntosh's BBC radio Prayer and Thought for the Day pieces from nearly a decade. Here is that of God, transcendent, yet also here and now, immanent, within the day's hard news. Alastair is a Quaker and author of books including Soil and Soul and Island Spirituality.
This anthology shares the best of Alastair McIntosh's BBC radio Prayer and Thought for the Day pieces from nearly a decade. Here is that of God, transcendent, yet also here and now, immanent, within the day's hard news. Alastair is a Quaker and author of books including Soil and Soul and Island Spirituality.
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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.
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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.
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Digital download: Poet Richard Skinner refashions the Easter story as a lyrical ballad in the tradition of of works such as 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'. It provides a different and very readable way of approaching the events of the first Easter. 31 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
From earthworms to CD-ROMs, from starfish to blizzards, from electrons to garden forks, from doubt to a shout of laughter - This beautiful little book of invocations inspired by creatures, conditions and objects in the world around us which reflect and are a metaphor for aspects of God or the Divine will resonate with individuals and groups of any or no particular religious or spiritual allegiance.
Books
From earthworms to CD-ROMs, from starfish to blizzards, from electrons to garden forks, from doubt to a shout of laughter - This beautiful little book of invocations inspired by creatures, conditions and objects in the world around us which reflect and are a metaphor for aspects of God or the Divine will resonate with individuals and groups of any or no particular religious or spiritual allegiance.