weeWONDERBOX: An Iona Community Liturgy
John in NLightsStarting on Wednesday 1st of June, and running throughout the rest of the month of June 2016, weeWONDERBOX welcomes a weekly Iona Community Liturgy for yer delectation and devotion.
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SOS: Song Of Songs in 60 Minutes
Tree with CAPThe Song Of Songs in 60 minutes in a liturgical installation. Hosted by Wild Goose Resource Group and Nitekirk.
Of Flesh & Bones … a guide to doing worship well
Of Flesh & Bones' ... a guide to doing worship well.
Wild Goose Resource Group
Abbey & MacLeod Centres, Iona, 25 June - 1 July 2016
Worship is not primarily about the ego, personal taste, inflexible tradition or anaesthesia. It is about God and humanity. To enable worship to be effective, to speak for and to people requires commitment, imagination and engagement. This is what the week is all about and it is open to all.
The Wild Goose Resource Group will be leading the week’s workshops, with plenty of singing, plenty of dreaming, plenty of people seeking ‘new ways to touch the hearts of all’.
Various
Short songs in worship
Taizé uses short songs for meditation. In this workshop, John Bell looks at other uses and draws on materials from the UK and the developing world.
God’s Gifted Gays
Christian debates on sexuality have largely ignored the contribution of gay people to the theology, spirituality, worship and witness of the churches. It is not just the mystics, but composers, artists, and authors who have held faith and broadened the horizons of the faithful. Names such as Poulenc, Britten, Michelangelo, Hammarskjold, James Baldwin and others
€450
weeWONDERBOX: An Iona Community Liturgy
John in NLightsA weekly Iona Community liturgy.
A time to still your soul, be affirmed, 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 by different members, associates or friends of the Iona Community, with the support of the Programme Team and Wild Goose Resource Group.
On the last Wednesday of the month, the liturgy will take the form of a service of prayers for healing and laying on of hands.
Fencing In God’s People
Camas Outdoor Centre: MullA liturgy led by Wild Goose Resource Group and Holy City that focuses on the history of wall-building and the struggles for land and identity in Israel and Palestine over the course of three millennia.
weeWONDERBOX: An Iona Community Liturgy of Healing
John in NLightsweeWONDERBOX: An Iona Community Liturgy of Healing
A service of prayers for healing and laying on of hands
Each week between September 2016 and June 2017, weeWONDERBOX offers a weekly Iona Community liturgy. However, on this the last Wednesday of the month, the liturgy takes a slightly different form, that of a service of prayer and action for healing, hope and well-being.
Songs for the Sabbath
Designing and Leading Christian WorshipHymn Festival led by John Bell exploring the concepts of Sanctuary and Sabbath.
weeWONDERBOX: Easter In The City – A Room, A Supper
John in NLightsEaster 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
Songs from the Iona Community
John L. Bell will lead worship at the Bicentenary Celebration Service for Preston Central Methodist Church.
Change Without Decay
9. Camas primary school 1A 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
WWBOX: Wee Weekly Liturgy
John in NLightsEach 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.
wWBOX: Where Three Streams Meet
John in NLightsDanish / 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
Glory of God in the Church
Wales and the MarchesA 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.
WWBOX: Prayers For Healing And The Laying On Of Hands
John in NLightsA 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.
WWBOX: The Wee Music Box
John in NLightsA 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.
The Gifts Outsiders Bring
Time and Space 3 or 6 Nights (FULLY BOOKED) Isle of Iona, United KingdomJohn L. Bell is guest preacher at Central Presbyterian's Sunday morning worship.
POSTPONED DUE TO WEATHER – Singing Our Way Into or Out of Belief
Embodied LentA Montgomery Trust Lecture by John L. Bell. Studies have shown that what we sing is what we end up believing, irrespective of the calibre of pulpit oratory we experience. In this lecture, we reflect on how songs, traditional and contemporary, shape popular theology. THIS LECTURE HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE WEATHER CONDITIONS. A NEW DATE WILL
WWBOX: The Wee Music Box
John in NLightsA 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.
WWBOX: The Wee Music Box
John in NLightsA 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.
Free
WWBOX: The Wee Music Box
John in NLightsA 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.
Finding Our Voice
Wild Goose at GreenbeltURC Northern Synod Music Day, with John Bell. Session titles: Leadership by the Laity Limited or Limitless Resources? Colourful Congregational Song Songs for the Season Registration and refreshments from 9.30am £8 per person, payable on the day. Bring a packed lunch, drinks provided. Please register by contacting Alison Shiel in advance.
Singing Our Way Into or Out of Belief
Associates WeekA Montgomery Trust Lecture by John L. Bell. Studies have shown that what we sing is what we end up believing, irrespective of the calibre of pulpit oratory we experience. In this lecture, we reflect on how songs, traditional and contemporary, shape popular theology.
Wee Weekly Worship
John in NLightsA weekly opportunity to worship @ weeWONDERBOX This session - 2018-19 - our monthly cycle of worship will follow a set of sequential themes that many who are familiar with the Iona Community will recognise: Quiet Time Prayers for Justice & Peace Prayers for Healing Act of Commitment On months that have a fifth Wednesday,
The Gifts That Others Bring
Christianity is a global faith. We have celebrated that by sending missionaries and bibles abroad. But what have we received from those who are not ‘like us’? Here we engage with biblical and spiritual insights, writings and songs from our fellow Christians abroad, and receive them as gifts for our growth in faith. Everything will
ReImagine Church Conference
Gather with hundreds of diverse Christians to engage conversations around leadership, mission, inclusive evangelism, church growth, and innovation. Keynote addresses by John Bell, Bishop Mike Royal of Cinnamon Network, and Rachel Lampard of Joint Public Issues Team. Please book in advance - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/reimagine-church-conference-tickets-50022913882 Free, with donation to cover lunch.
John Bell at Austin Seminary
A four day residency, exploring song, worship and spirituality with seminary students. Includes: Tues 2nd April - chapel morning worship Thurs 4th April - lunchtime lecture on Patron Saints/Public Deities and evening Big Sing 7.30-9.30pm
Summer Institute of Church Music
The Summer Institute of Church Music – SICM – is Canada’s intensive week-long residential summer retreat and study program for the musicians of churches. Grounded in the creative and inspired use of organ and choir in worship, it seeks to celebrate and extend exciting and new horizons in church music, committed always to helping its
Picture The Word
Exploring the Bible without getting bored When we read or hear a passage from the Bible, it often doesn't stick. How could we stay with it, play with it, chew on it and even be changed by it? This autumn weeWONDERBOX offers an experimental series of evenings exploring the Bible creatively. Through collage, wordles, image-making
Living With The Bible
John in NLightsA two day international conversation on how to make friends with Holy Scripture, enabled by the Wild Goose Resource Group The Bible ... ... open or closed? ... public or private? ... experience or theory? ... dynamic or dead? Many lay people feel inadequate when speaking about the Bible. And quite a few ministers
Designing & Leading Christian Worship
An online practical theology short course with Mark Johnston and Jo Love. Trinity College Glasgow and Theology & Religious Studies, University of Glasgow. This is an open access course available as a 10-credit course (accredited by the University of Glasgow) or audit-only for those who just wish to engage with the learning programme for their
In the Ongoing
9. Camas primary school 1A creative week exploring the provision and provisionality in a continually unfolding world. What might our lives and worship be like if instead of striving for permanence and stability, we attend to and celebrate the transient and incomplete? Led by Jo Love of the Wild Goose Resource Group, Carol Marples and Jane Bentley. Reserve a place here. We hope that
With the Benefit of Hindsight
This retreat offers the opportunity to reflect on matters of life and faith, regarding which traditional Christian attitudes have been challenged, causing many people to change their minds or amended their theology. We will consider issues such as Biblical Truth, Race, Environment, Sex and Gender Issues, Technology and Public Worship. We will draw on the
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