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Mar 1, 2011 • Comments Closed 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...
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May 20, 2013 • Comments Closed Yesterday was Pentecost. We ended our gathering passing out some sparklers!
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Apr 29, 2013 • Comments Closed Home Community member Katharine Thompson shares her thoughts on how we can all live with a deeper sense of joy (recorded at the Home Community gathering on Sunday 28th April 2013) Katharine Thompson on 'Living Joy' by Homecommunity on Mixcloud
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Apr 15, 2013 • Comments Closed Really good to have Tim Stead – vicar at Headington Quarry – with us yesterday for the first gathering in our ‘Living Joy’ cycle. Tim explored how we might live with a deeper sense of joy, skilfully making connections between our image of God as Trinity and the mindfulness meditation tradition. Have a listen! Tim...
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Apr 2, 2013 • Comments Closed Obviously a hugely important week for Christ followers the world over, our Holy Week and Easter gatherings consisted of a gathering on Palm Sunday, an All Age Good Friday gathering, a Stations of the Cross and communion meditative gathering, and our by-now-traditional bring and share champagne resurrection breakfast on Easter day. Here are some pictures...
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Mar 25, 2013 • Comments Closed After the solemnity of Lent our next cycle will be taking a look at how we can cultivate a deeper sense of joy in our lives.We want to focus on finding joy in the everyday not just in the high or low points. We are really pleased that Tim Stead – vicar of Headington Quarry...
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Mar 18, 2013 • Comments Closed Holy Week is obviously a very important week for us as a community following in the way of Christ. His journey is our journey. We follow him through the darkness of death (his and ours) – the death of the small self, the death of the ego – into the nothingness beyond it, and awaiting...
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Mar 11, 2013 • Comments Closed Yesterday (Sunday 10th March) we got together with the St Albans Sunday morning congregation for a joint service for Mothers Day. It was a bit chaotic, but fun! Our theme was ‘God as Mother – the source of life’ and we tried to focus our attention on God, our mother, being the source from which...
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Mar 11, 2013 • Comments Closed A couple of weeks ago some of us joined with members of the St Albans morning congregation to clean the church that we both use. Afterwards we enjoyed a hearty lunch at the Isis Tavern (see pics by Mark below).
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Feb 25, 2013 • Comments Closed Here’s a recording from the Home Community gathering on Sunday 24th February, 2013. We invited Nick Lea – economist at the Department for International Development – to come and talk to us about christian faith in an age of austerity and what the themes of lent might have to say about this. Enjoy! Nick Lea...
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Feb 25, 2013 • Comments Closed At the first Toolkit session we made available a list of resources on the prayer practices that we explored together. Here it is (all the books are available via Amazon) : MEDITATION Books ‘Open Mind, Open Heart’ – Thomas Keating ‘Centering Prayer and Inner Awakening’ – Cynthia Bourgeault ‘Into the Silent Land’ – Martin Laird...
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Feb 11, 2013 • Comments Closed Details of our latest gathering cycle - Enough Already? - where we are exploring some of the key themes of lent and asking what they might have to say to us as a society in this age of austerity.
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Feb 4, 2013 • Comments Closed Details of our upcoming Ash Wednesday liturgy.
