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    • Events
    • Faith Action for Nature
  • Networks
    • North of Scotland
      • Aberdeen Network
      • Angus & Dundee Network
      • Highland Network
      • Moray Network
      • Orkney Network
      • Perth Network
    • South of Scotland
      • Ayrshire Network
      • Central Borders Network
      • Dumfries & Galloway Network
      • Esk & Tweed Network
    • West of Scotland
      • Glasgow Network
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      • Mid Argyll Network
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        • Top Tips
          • Ten Tips for saving energy
          • Ten Tips for attracting wildlife
        • Creation Time

          Worship resources celebrating God’s creation

        • COP26 and the Climate Emergency

          Let’s Talk about the Climate Emergency

        • Faith Action for Nature

          Resources for churches and families

        • Ideas for Action
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        • Links
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      121 George Street
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Chaplain

Rev David Coleman

Rev David Coleman

Rev’d David Coleman is eager to get to know local congregations’ initiatives, and to hear of  your trials and joys, and to lead or share leadership of worship, when appropriate, taking note of your own tradition. Encouraging the committed core of congregations is also a high priority. David is an experienced, ordained minister in the United Reformed Church, a mainstream Christian church in the UK, and is also a Member of the Iona Community, having led programmed weeks at the Abbey.

Invite David to visit you by getting in touch through our staff page here 

In preaching and in presentations, David makes exciting use of multimedia (see one of his videos below), and is well-equipped to work in very  varied venues, not just on Sundays, or Sunday mornings.

A visit from the chaplain is an opportunity to celebrate what it means to be an Eco-Congregation.

Continue reading to follow his thoughts and reflections:

 

Chaplain's Blog

  • Season of Creation 2022: Major Reflections (for download)- Sermon-slot material for online worship:

    This is a Season in itself, created during a retreat experience, staying at Loch Ossian Hostel, on Rannoch Moor (only accessible by train). Expect to be challenged.

    Week 1: Choosing Life: [13 mins 50] available for Download in up to 4k.

    Heeding warnings …. NB Includes one shot of a dead bird.

    Week 2: Honour the Lost [12 mins 56 ] available for download in up to 1080p [4k from mid August]… Who is lost, who is not, and do we listen to the voice of God in those we have marginalised and despised?

    Week 3 : Jesus blunt and wild

    Week 4 : Net Zero Life . NB: some consideration of death and bereavement, including one shot of a funeral.

    Week 5: Roots in the Earth, Roots in the Church

    Continue reading →
  • If rulers are from God

    Young climate protesters at the Scottish Parliament 2022
    God-and-politics-PDFDownload

    God and Politics

    For use with 1 Timothy 2:1-7 or other passages

    Meter 8886  e.g. Saffron Walden, Childhood

    it is, of course, absurd, to say, or tolerate the saying, that ‘religion and politics don’t mix’, since both are concerned with the good of people and planet.  The Timothy passage can. however, be read in a way which encouraged quietist disengagement.  

    This hymn poem disagrees

    1) If rulers are from God, it’s plain

    they’ll always seek the common good.

    So Christians pray, and give support,

    where justice is assured.

    2)When rulers lie and cheat and steal;

    with malice, trample on the weak

    then still we pray, protest and vote;

    speak out, when called to speak.

    3)God, even-handed sends the rain

    bright Sun, through leaves; Creation’s fuel.

    Our choices have their part to play:

    the web of life’s renewal….

    4) When rulers act to tend the Earth:

    -every transition must be just-

    with all good will, our prayers and more

    give power and hope and trust.

    Continue reading →
  • God writes our names into the sky

    A hymn-poem on the ‘reward’ Jesus said was worth rejoicing over, that the names of those who were prepared to go and heal on his command had their ‘names written in Heaven/the Sky. [Luke 10:20 ]

    Tune – LM, ideally ‘Church Triumphant’.

    The ‘skyness’ of Heaven is part of the experiential dimension of faith, which of course happens within the unified Creation of ‘Heaven and Earth’

    New-Hymn-201-God-writes-our-names-into-the-skyDownload

    Text only:

    1)When we are sent,  we travel light

    not bearing hatred, malice, spite

    we warn, alert, and love is why 

    God writes our names into the Sky!

    2)When we are partners with the Earth-

    Our praise is chorus; deep our mirth,

    with those who swim and squirm and fly:

    God writes our names into the Sky

    3)God loves this world’s diverse delight:

    paints puffin’s beak so rainbow bright.

    We’re made that way, so can’t deny

    God writes our names into the Sky!

    4)The Earth is frail;  we’re sent to heal;

    the danger to all life is real

    with every prayer and act we try

    God writes our names into the Sky!

    Continue reading →
  • Eight trees. Sermon from a travelling preacher.

    Things may change, of course, in the next few days, but I set out with a wee bit of preparation.

    .

    Shetland-sermon-1Download
    Continue reading →
  • Don’t take me back to Kansas!

    (on the occasion of my 59th birthday, an indulgent, opinionated piece in the good old blog post genre.)

    I keep getting led to ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in many ways: I don’t know if I’d recycle the whole thing, but Frank Baum’s introduction of 1900 was fascinating as a starter.

    not-in-Kansas-3Download
    Continue reading →
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