Here’s an audio recording from earlier this year of Pete Ward’s talk from the ‘What is the point in going to church?’ cycle. Enjoy! […]
Category: old-blog
Night-time observations
I thought it was time Home had an update on some recent events with Street Pastors, so here we are! A few weeks back, Jo and I were among the people on the first Saturday shift in Oxford. It was quite a busy night, certainly compared to most of the Fridays I’ve done lately. I […]
Origami Scripture Hearts
Last night at the meditative service in our cycle on ‘The Good Book?’ we made origami hearts out of pages from an old bible. In Japan where origami originates, it is considered a meditative activity – as you work in quite a focussed way with the paper your mind can become quite still. This activity […]
Audio from the Archive – Bishop John on ‘sight’
Back in January 2012 Bishop John – the Bishop of Oxford – visited the Home Community as part of our ‘Lost and Found’ cycle of gatherings. Here’s the audio recording of his talk which he entitled ‘sight’. […]
The Good Book – Martin’s talk (audio)
Here is the audio recording of Martin’s talk from earlier in our gathering cycle ‘The Good Book?’. […]
Audio from the Archives – Jeff Keuss on Music & Spirituality
We’ve been working to find a good solution to uploading large audio files to our site (files that are too large to fall within our upload limits set by our web hosting). This has been a real frustration as we have been making recordings of talks people have been giving in Home gatherings but then […]
Goodbye Ingrid!
Last Sunday was a sad one for the Home community. Ingrid – who has travelled with us for the last 4 years or so – is moving to Sheffield. She is a much loved member of our community who has always been incredibly generous with her time and in the ways she has supported people, […]
The Good Book? Discussion gathering questions…
Great to get our new cycle up and running last Sunday with our discussion gathering. In it we considered the following questions, posted here for those who couldn’t make it or who would like to think some more about them. We asked people to choose a question from each category (far too many questions to […]
The Good Book?
Details of our latest gathering cycle looking at the complex question of how to handle scripture wisely in today’s world. […]
Jojo’s baptism
On Sunday 23rd September 2012 we gathered – along with friends and family of the Mawsons – in the chapel at Wadham college to baptise little Joanna, latest progeny of Tim and Caroline. These are always very special events in the life of our community and yesterday even the very wet weather couldn’t put a […]
Weekend Away 2012
A report from our 2012 weekend away […]
Urban pastoral
There can’t be many church initiatives which are on average better known to Friday night clubbers than Sunday morning congregations. But the blue uniforms of Street Pastors, out in groups of four from Friday evening to the not-so-small hours of Saturday morning, have become increasingly familiar in Oxford and elsewhere over the last few years. […]