Details of our summertime gatherings – running from the end of July to the start of September. […]
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Pentecostal Sparklers!
Yesterday was Pentecost. We ended our gathering passing out some sparklers! […]
‘Songs in the key of life’
Our next gathering cycle focuses our attention on the Psalms – the ancient songbook of the Judeo-Christian traditions – where we find expressed a vast array of human emotions. We will be looking at these fascinating pieces of literature and also attempting to go deeper into the spirit of the psalms and find resonances for […]
Katharine Thompson on ‘Living Joy’ (audio)
Home Community member Katharine Thompson shares her thoughts on how we can all live with a deeper sense of joy (recorded at the Home Community gathering on Sunday 28th April 2013) […]
Tim Stead on ‘Living Joy’
Really good to have Tim Stead – vicar at Headington Quarry – with us yesterday for the first gathering in our ‘Living Joy’ cycle. Tim explored how we might live with a deeper sense of joy, skilfully making connections between our image of God as Trinity and the mindfulness meditation tradition. Have a listen! […]
Holy Week and Easter 2013 – pictures
Obviously a hugely important week for Christ followers the world over, our Holy Week and Easter gatherings consisted of a gathering on Palm Sunday, an All Age Good Friday gathering, a Stations of the Cross and communion meditative gathering, and our by-now-traditional bring and share champagne resurrection breakfast on Easter day. Here are some pictures […]
‘Living Joy’
After the solemnity of Lent our next cycle will be taking a look at how we can cultivate a deeper sense of joy in our lives.We want to focus on finding joy in the everyday not just in the high or low points. We are really pleased that Tim Stead – vicar of Headington Quarry […]
Holy Week & Easter Gatherings 2013
Holy Week is obviously a very important week for us as a community following in the way of Christ. His journey is our journey. We follow him through the darkness of death (his and ours) – the death of the small self, the death of the ego – into the nothingness beyond it, and awaiting […]
Mothers Day Joint Service
Yesterday (Sunday 10th March) we got together with the St Albans Sunday morning congregation for a joint service for Mothers Day. It was a bit chaotic, but fun! Our theme was ‘God as Mother – the source of life’ and we tried to focus our attention on God, our mother, being the source from which […]
Lunching at the Isis
A couple of weeks ago some of us joined with members of the St Albans morning congregation to clean the church that we both use. Afterwards we enjoyed a hearty lunch at the Isis Tavern (see pics by Mark below). […]
Nick Lea – ‘Enough Already?’ (audio)
Here’s a recording from the Home Community gathering on Sunday 24th February, 2013. We invited Nick Lea – economist at the Department for International Development – to come and talk to us about christian faith in an age of austerity and what the themes of lent might have to say about this. Enjoy! […]
Toolkit – Prayer Resources
At the first Toolkit session we made available a list of resources on the prayer practices that we explored together. Here it is (all the books are available via Amazon) : MEDITATION Books ‘Open Mind, Open Heart’ – Thomas Keating ‘Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening’ – Cynthia Bourgeault ‘Into the Silent Land’ – Martin Laird […]