Beer & Carols 2013
Details of our upcoming Beer & Carols event at the Isis Farmhouse barn on Sunday 15th December, 4pm
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...
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...
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...
Harvest 2013 pics
We had a wonderful time yesterday at our Harvest Festival down at the Isis Farmhouse pub. The weather was wonderful and we had the side of the barn open to let the outside inside. Matt & Asha led the proceedings, with the band belting out some old-school Harvest classics (think ‘We plough the fields and...
Rest – David Whyte
At our gathering yesterday – as we move out of our summertime Afternoon Tea mode into our more ‘regular’ gatherings in the main church building – we were thinking about a spirituality of rest. We had a slideshow of people’s summer holiday snaps which was a lot of fun and then we considered what the...
We are 10! Anniversary Celebrations
Home is turning 10! We are planning a special day of celebration and thanksgiving for the first 10 years in the life of our community. This will be a really special day for us! Here’s what we’re planning….. 1pm : Walking Pilgrimage around some of the important sites in the history of Home 315pm...
Harvest 2013
On Sunday 22nd September at 430pm in the Barn out back of the Isis Farmhouse pub we will be celebrating Harvest. Come along for some old-school hymn singing and some simple prayers as we give thanks for the abundance of the land and celebrate the goodness
kids chalk pics
The Home kids made some chalk pictures in response to the psalms at our gathering yesterday – here are some pics…
