Family Communion: 15th June 2014 See here for the Prezi and to download it. Or you can download a fully standalone version from here (zip file) Gathering Song (Here we go round the Mulberry Bush) We gather round in this holy space Holy Space, filled with grace We gather round in this holy space To…
Maya Angelou 20 January 1993 A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Marked the mastodon.The dinosaur, who left dry tokens Of their sojourn here On our planet floor, Any broad alarm of their hastening doom Is lost in the gloom of dust and ages. But today, the Rock cries out…
Karen asks for a new hymn for weddings to "Lord of the Dance" (or more accurately perhaps the old Shaker Hymn "T'is a gift to be simple") I hope this kicks off a collaborative process - first verse and chorus: We come together to witness love These two people joined by Above We see in…
This is a small document containing suitable pieces of music for use in Church (especially coming in, during the signing of the registers and coming out of Church), suitable hymns and both scriptural readings as well as non-scriptural poems and reflections which work well in a Church wedding service. You can download this as a…
I read those heart-rending stories of LGBT people isolated by Evangelical Christianity. To me, the answer is clear: find an inclusive progressive anglocatholic parish, receive the sacraments and know that God loves you for who you are.
Download: Teaching Powerpoint on Ash Wednesday Prezi at https://prezi.com/ky6mdfof8yqx/ [gigya src="http://prezi.com/bin/preziloader.swf" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="550" height="400" bgcolor="#ffffff" flashvars="prezi_id=ky6mdfof8yqx&lock_to_path=1&color=ffffff&autoplay=no&autohide_ctrls=0" You can work out the words from these slides. I am working with each year group from Reception through to Year 6 (skipping some bits for the littler ones obviously) and covering all this in 30 mins per year…
Gathering Song: =http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mnPVJYTW9s8 In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen The Lord be with you and also with you Penitential Rite (ba ba blacksheep) Just like lost sheep we have gone astray Done bad things and run away So we come to say sorry Make things…
Gathering Song Behold the Lamb (CJM) =http://youtu.be/4-53FUtoHgM In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen The Lord be with you and also with you Penitential Rite <Ba Ba Blacksheep> Just like lost sheep we have gone astray Done bad things and run away So we come to…
Listen (preached at S. Mary the Virgin, Bickleigh) Text: Matthew 2:13-15; 19-23 In the name of the +Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen With the birth of the Christ child still fresh in our ears, we move away from the crèche and towards the reality of living in the presence of…
We seem to have such strange public perceptions: we love to stigmatise and alienate. I read this week (http://theconversation.com/british-people-are-wrong-about-everything-heres-why-16018) that out of every £100 of Benefit, the public believes about £24 of it is obtained fraudulently whereas in reality the figure is about 70pence. Everytime I pass a newsstand I glimpse the front page of the…
