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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:
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.
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.
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’
(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.
