Community Blog
Check out the latest entries by the 'blogger-in-residence' on the Home Community blog - reflections on what we're learning and what we're doing in our community as well as other thoughts and clippings from around the web.
Welcome!
Welcome to the website of the Home Community – a church community in the city of Oxford, UK. We aspire to offer a fresh take on what it means to be a group of people following in the way of Christ, our teacher. Take a look around our site for more information about what that...
Book Group Report
In the summer of 2017 a group of us got together each week to discuss Marcus Borg’s book ‘Convictions’. The book is subtitled ‘A Manifesto for Progressive Christians’ – we were interested to hear and reflect on how Borg was re-envisioning Christian belief as this is a task that many of us in Home feel...
‘Across the Divide’ – Matt Rees (audio)
We live in a tribal world – how can we reach across the divide? Perhaps if we understand what’s going below the surface, and understand how tribalism affects our sense of identity and safety, we might be able to connect? Amongst other cultural references Matt refers to Frankie Goes to Hollywood and The Life of...
‘Trinity’ – Matt Rees (audio)
Matt shares some thoughts on the notion of God as Trinity. Instead of getting bogged down in the technical theological aspects of Trinity as a doctrine, he asks why it matters that we conceive of God as a Trinity? What are the implications for our values and how we do things?
Complexity & Simplicity (John 14) – Matt Rees (audio)
Matt shares some brief reflections from John 14 – the disciples are confused as, so often, are we. How can we honour the complexity of our lives and yet find the simplicity we long for?
‘Christ the Good Shepherd’ (Audio)
Here’s the audio recording of Matt’s talk from the Home Community gathering on 7/5/17.
‘Walking with Jesus’ – Easter season gatherings
Details of our gatherings for the Easter season 2017
Fiona on St Thomas
Here’s an audio recording from our gathering on 23rd April – the first of our gatherings on the theme ‘Walking with Jesus’. Fiona shares her thoughts on St Thomas.
Salt & Light – Matt Rees (audio)
Audio recording of Matt's talk at the Home Community gathering on Sunday 5th February
Advent 3 : Matt’s talk – ‘I feel like I’m waiting for something that is never going to happen’ (audio)
Here’s the audio recording of Matt’s talk at the Home Community gathering on Sunday 11th December, 2016. It was the 3rd Sunday of Advent and Matt was exploring themes of waiting and desire as well as exploring the traditional view of the second coming of Christ. Listen in here!
