For Lent this year we are running a group blog we're calling '40'...reflecting on 40 different words in 40 days throughout lent, with pictures, reflections and thoughts contributed by different members of the Home Community. Find out more here...
Justin Wark – ‘Elemental’ (audio)
Here's the audio from Professor Justin Wark's talk on the theme of 'elemental'.
‘Elemental’
Our latest gathering cycle focuses on faith as an earthy, embodied thing and also looks at how scientific enquiry can deepen spirituality. Our guest speaker for the cycle is Professor Justin Wark – physicist at the University of Oxford. In his work Professor Wark uses incredibly powerful lasers to attempt to recreate the conditions...
Advent Sunday 2013 – Matt’s talk (audio)
Listen in to Matt’s talk from our Advent Sunday gathering. Advent is not just about looking back to the coming of the Christ 2000 years ago but also to the ‘second advent’ or the second coming. Many of us stay well away from this idea and teaching because it’s so often been the domain of...
Beer & Carols 2013
Details of our upcoming Beer & Carols event at the Isis Farmhouse barn on Sunday 15th December, 4pm
Christingle!
Details of our upcoming Christingle service on Sunday 8th December at 330pm - lots of fun for young and old...
Keith Ward at Home (audio)
It was really good to have Professor Keith Ward visit our gathering on the last Sunday of November. Here’s the audio from a really fascinating talk… Keith Ward at Home by Homecommunity on Mixcloud
Keith Ward speaking event
Professor Keith Ward - popular author, teacher, and Canon of Christchurch Cathedral, Oxford - visits the Home Community on Sunday 24th November to share his vision of a Christianity for the 21st Century.
John O Donohue quotes on death and dying
Last night at the Meditative Gathering in our ‘A Further Shore’ cycle we drew inspiration from two texts : Ian Adams’ book ‘Running Over Rocks’ has a chapter in it entitled ‘Greet Your Passing’ and John O Donohue’s book ‘Anam Cara’. Ian suggests the intriguing possibility that our death, rather than being a bad or...
Tess Ward ‘A Spirituality of Dying’ (audio)
At the 4th gathering of our ‘A Further Shore’ cycle, Tess Ward, hospice chaplain and member of the Home Community, shared her thoughts on ‘a spirituality of dying’ with us. Listen in here! Tess Ward : 'A Spirituality of Dying' by Homecommunity on Mixcloud
‘A Further Shore’
Details of our gathering cycle for Autumn 2013 exploring questions of death and dying, the afterlife, saints, 'judgement', and heaven and hell.
10th Birthday Celebrations
We had a great day of celebration yesterday – celebrating 10 years of the life of the Home Community which began in 2003. It’s been quite a journey! Our celebrations started with a walking pilgrimage around important sites in the history of Home, retracing the steps of the journey of the last 10 years. We...
