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Reading. Reflection. Renewal.
📖✨ One of my Christmas gifts was Doorways to the Sacred: Developing Sacramentality in Fresh Expressions of Church. I tend to open parcels as they arrive rather than wait for the big reveal, so this book has already found its way into my hands. After the recent Church of Ireland Pioneer Gathering, I’ve been reflecting Continue reading
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Tune. Text. Prayer.
Hymn-singing is never just about words on a page; it is about the marriage of text and tune, and how that union shapes the prayer of the gathered community. Yet music for hymns can be difficult. A hymnbook may suggest a tune that is unfamiliar in a particular place, and so the congregation must lean Continue reading
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Waking. Walking. Watching.
Isaiah 2:1–5 | Psalm 122 | Romans 13:11–14 | Matthew 24:36–44 “I joyed when to the house of God, Go up, they said to me.” The old cadence of the Scottish Psalter still rings oddly in my ear. Its word order feels unfamiliar, almost comic, yet it lingers—memorable because it was passed on by David Continue reading
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Endings. Threshold. Dawn.
At the threshold of endings and beginnings, praise steadies us, and rest becomes gift. Continue reading
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