The Wee Social Box is a monthly opportunity for folk to get together regularly in relaxed, informal mode to meet, chat, hang-out and generally be both entertained - and entertain ourselves - along with other lovely souls. The concept is that it’ll be a drop-in event. So folk can feel free to come and go,
A Tenx9 storytelling event with weeWONDERBOX in collaboration with Holy City
For those new to Tenx9 - it's a storytelling format that began in Belfast in 2011.
Each night nine people have up to ten minutes each to tell a real story from their lives.
It's wonderful, it's always free, it's for ordinary people telling great stories, and (yet again) it's happening in your city.
Tonight's event, featuring co-creator Pádraig Ó Tuama himself, will be happening in the Iona Community's Base at 21 Carlton Court, just south of the Clyde, and the theme will be 'Glasgow'.
The first Glaswegian evening was in January 2015 and has normally been held in the wondrous The Glad Cafe. For more info on ongoing Tenx9-ery throughout the globe: www.tenx9.com
A conversation with the Poverty Truth Commission This evening Elaine Downie and Commissioners from The Poverty Truth Commission will lead a conversation on 'A Life of Dignity: What does it mean for each of us?' This is the third in a series of monthly Craighead Conversations, 'What's faith got to do with it?' focusing on
Glasgow (Dis)Associates is a gathering for anyone in the Glasgow area who has any connection with the Iona Community, whether you are an Associate, Friend, curious onlooker or even a Member! Join us on 14th December for an informal Festive Feast of food, drink, stories and singing. This will be a "pot luck" feast so
The Wee Social Box is a monthly opportunity for folk to get together regularly in relaxed, informal mode to meet, chat, hang-out and generally both be entertained - and entertain ourselves - along with other lovely souls. The concept is that it's a drop-in event. So folk can feel free to come and go, staying for
The Wee Social Box is a monthly opportunity for folk to get together regularly in relaxed, informal mode to meet, chat, hang-out and generally both be entertained - and entertain ourselves - along with other lovely souls. The concept: it's a drop-in event. So feel free to come and go, staying for some or all of
Biblical blethers on the hoof Root 66 returns, courtesy of Jo Love, for yer healthy and holy delectation. Today's theme will be 'God, us and the environment'. Psalm 104 is an evocative celebration of God’s relationship with creation. As we approach Lent, we will meditate on this psalm and ask how we might honour the
A faithful, environmentally-responsible discipline for the season Don’t give up chocolate, just give up a little time to tend to the neighbourhood. Let the riverside rejoice, let the pavements sing, as we go with bags and gloves around the Carlton Court area on a weekly pre-liturgy litter lift. Wednesdays from 1st March to 12th April
More information soon. See the weeWONDERBOX 2016-17 listings page for more information about these other events. Cost: Free. Venue: In the area around The Ground @ The Iona Community Base, 21 Carlton Court, Glasgow, Scotland G5 9JP, Scotland. Access to The Ground is via one step. Inside there is a low-stepped ramp. We
Unfortunately, due to low booking, this event has regretfully been cancelled. A short, afternoon urban retreat for those who wish to reflect in the midst of the season. Following our successful Advent urban retreat in December (Entertaining Advent), this is a second opportunity to take time to focus on the stories, practices and prayerful challenges
Cuthman Lecture by John L. Bell The Cuthman Lectures are designed to explore issues relating to religion, belief, ethics and morals in a contemporary world. The aim is to have speakers from a wide variety of backgrounds; some will have religious affiliations and others will have none. The lectures are open to anyone who is
John L. Bell speaks at the St. Peter's Methodist Contemporary Theology Group meeting. Open to all interested in honest and lively discussions on contemporary themes in theology and religion. £3 at the door.
John L. Bell leads a Big Sing with songs from the Church of Scotland Hymnary. The focus will be on short & a cappella songs from CH4, highlighting how effective unaccompanied singing can be. Clackmannan Parish Church will be 200 years old this year (hence the timing of the event!)
A two day interactive workshop with John Bell. With inspirational music and song by the Iona Community's Wild Goose Resource Group.
Biblical blethers on the hoof Root 66 continues on Sunday 26th March Acts 13-15:35 give us snapshots of Paul’s first missionary journey. Sailings, sermons, miracles, riots, divided opinions and brutal assaults, what thoughts and questions do these raise for us? Is this still how the Spirit blows through human lives? After last month’s overly wild
Much is spoken and sung about the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus, but not so much about his life. We sing about our love for Jesus and our willingness to follow Him, but what exactly does that mean? Many aspects of Jesus’ life are sadly underplayed, such as the groundedness of His spirituality, His
The adjectives most commonly used regarding Jesus are 'kind and gentle'; the predominant images of him in the song and physical artwork of the church are mostly passive, and there is limited expectation that he might have an interest in the issues of the day apart from those associated with charitable causes. So is he
Easter in the City is a 2 part-series, which offers an opportunity to enter into and reflect upon some of the events of the last hours of Jesus' life. Tonight, on Maundy Thursday, we focus on the events and emotions that Jesus and his disciples experienced in the upper room where they shared the Last
Easter in the City is a 2 part-series, which offers an opportunity to enter into and reflect upon some of the events of the last hours of Jesus' life. This afternoon, on Good Friday, we focus on the events leading up to Jesus' execution by the Roman authorities. Through readings, prayers, symbolic action, song and
This month's Wee Social Box has been cancelled, due to a Glasgow Iona Community Family Group fundraising ceilidh the same evening featuring live music from Macappella Ceilidh Band. 8pm–11pm, University of Glasgow Chapel, University Avenue, Glasgow, G12 8QQ. Tickets £10. Students & OAPS £5.00. ...... The Wee Social Box is a monthly opportunity for folk
At this Two23 Network gathering, John L. Bell will speak on 'Fault Lines & Fantasies - how Christians cope with failure'. Two23 is a network of Christians, connected by LGBT issues. We hold five key meetings a year in a central London location on a Saturday afternoon. These involve some prayer and worship as well
John L. Bell opens up stories of little known Biblical characters, which might challenge presumptions, and encourage our discipleship. Traditionally we have encouraged children to ‘Dare to be a Daniel’ or a Samson, David or even a Moses, through songs and bible story books. We are not so quick to encourage children to dare to
John L. Bell will lead worship at the Bicentenary Celebration Service for Preston Central Methodist Church.
Biblical blethers on the hoof Root 66 continues on Sunday 7th May @ 3.00-5.30pm, at Seven Lochs Wetland Park on the east side of Glasgow. According to the tale of human origins related in Genesis 4, family life got off to a bad start and a murderous brother was banished to a land called 'Wandering' in the
John L. Bell talks on ‘The Tangibility of Jesus’ at the Godly Play Childhood Spirituality Conference.
John L. Bell looks at how the Church can still be an important and relevant part of the community.
John L. Bell leads a Big Sing as part of Ainsdale Methodist Church's 150th anniversary.
For many people today, the Bible is not so much a closed book as an unopened book. For several years, John L. Bell and his colleagues have been enabling lay people as well as clergy to make friends with the Bible, and discover it more as a family album than an academic textbook. In this
For some people the Bible is a book of problems which only ordained people can solve. For others it is full of contradictions and is at odds with science. Other people still remember it from their childhood but have not looked at it much since. This workshop led by John L. Bell looks at the
... hopefully for better reasons than that the next hymn has been announced. Rarely do we explore reasons for singing, but when we do, the enjoyment of the congregational song increases. This is a session led by John L. Bell for everyone, not just for the “musically gifted”.
‘Psalms, Hymns & Spiritual Songs’. The title comes from St Paul, but the material comes from many centuries and around the world. Songs shared here by John L. Bell have been gathered or written by people in the Iona Community over the last 30 years and are now sung all over the world. However the
John L. Bell will be keynote speaker and Jo Love will lead a creative workshop at this gathering of laity and clergy from the Scottish Episcopal Diocese of St. Andrew's, Dunkeld and Dunblane, to celebrate the work of God in their congregations, and to be encouraged and equipped to participate in the Mission of God
Biblical blethers on the hoof XXXX Ayr shorefront or River Ayr via Auchincruive to Annbank - 3pm start. Details Cost: Free (tho’ donations welcomed) Booking / RSVP: If you can, please let us know if you’re coming (see the bottom of this page, under Venue details) or email us: weewonderbox@wildgoose.scot Venue: TBC To receive
Throughout the traditional denominations of the western church the word 'change' both unites and polarises people. There is general agreement that some things should change; but which things – music, liturgy, buildings, organisational structures? And when it comes to alternatives there is rarely unanimity. Rather than become embroiled in the detail of which colour to
What changes are Christians likely to face in the future and how will we cope with these changes in a positive way, given that most Christians are resistant to change? This is the first session in the Moving Forward in Song day led by John L. Bell.
Churches don't normally sing about pastoral and political issues - depression, ageing, refugees, multi-faith societies. These new songs will include several new texts set to known tunes; sing theology that helps enable a larger understanding of God's presence in the world around us. This is the second session in the Moving Forward in Song day
A week with the Wild Goose Resource Group on Iona For many people in churches, change is a no-go area, a source of stress and the cause of major disagreement.Yet change is the central dynamic of the Christian faith: Jesus both changes people and in the resurrection moves from being a corpse to a living
The Wild Goose Resource Group and The Iona Community @ Greenbelt Festival. Northern Lights our partnership venue featuring - Iona Community, WGRG, Church Action on Poverty, Fischy Music new location – find us near the ‘junction’ between the two halves of the festival field (near where the Tiny Tea Tent was last year!) NL programme is
Each week between September 2017 and June 2018, weeWONDERBOX offers a weekly Iona Community & Wild Goose liturgy.
A time to still your body, mind and soul, be affirmed and comforted as well as challenged. Participative worship which uses unaccompanied song, music, conversation and simple symbolic action to explore how the Word, our experience and lives intersect.
Each liturgy is led variously by the Iona Community Programme Team, the Wild Goose Resource Group, Iona Community members, associates or friends.
Danish / Scottish conversations on Liturgy Monday 18 – Wednesday 20 September 2017 Denmark is a predominantly Lutheran nation, Scotland, a predominantly Calvinist one, in terms of their respective Christian heritage. There are distinctive spiritual streams, but each in practice, incorporates other significant influences. So in this year, marking 500 years since the Reformation, a
A one-day conference for leadership and laity, envisioning and discovering God's glory in the Church. John L. Bell is one of the keynote speakers, in the area of Devotion.
A service of prayers for healing and laying on of hands
On the last Wednesday of each month between September 2017 and June 2018, weeWONDERBOX offers a monthly liturgy that consists of prayer and action for healing, hope and well-being.
A monthly workshop course on music – its purpose and potential, how to use it imaginatively in congregations and much more.
Led by John L. Bell, Jane Bentley & Carol McArthur.
The course is open to all who are interested in the potential of music in the church – its importance in worship, pastoral work, and spirituality. Each evening is self-contained, so that participants may come for the whole course or specific evenings.
Evening conversations with Wild Goose Publications authors & others Short, long, complicated, intriguing, and interesting words from authors of Wild Goose Publications. Come and listen to their experiences, storytelling, and share your ideas about writing and reading. Wee Words is a monthly series of literary opportunities, hosted by Alex O'Neill and other Wild Goose Publications
John L. Bell presents an exploration of world music and its influence on the Western church.
Sunday morning adult education hour with John L. Bell.
A monthly event - after our Wednesday Wee Weekly Worship - focusing on pressing, topical or intriguing issues concerning faith, politics, society and culture. In the original Greek myth, when Pandora opened her box (or jar), death and many other 'evils' escaped into the world. All that was left in it was ... hope. We
At the Hymn Society's Center for Congregational Song launch event, John L. Bell will lead a session entitled Sing and Serve.
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