Today’s service is led by the Revd Introduction Hello, and a warm welcome to worship today. My name is Peter Ranscombe – I’m a freelance journalist and copywriter, and I’m a locally-recognised lay preacher at Saughtonhall United Reformed Church in Edinburgh. Let’s begin our worship today with a word of prayer – let us pray… […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 13th April 2024
Information Father John B. Giuliani was born Greenwich, Connecticut in 1932, to Italian immigrants to America. After studying art for three years he studied for the Catholic priesthood and was ordained in 1960. After some years teaching Fr Giuliani was given permission to establish a small monastic community of brothers who lived and worshipped together […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 12 April 2024
Information This is the work of Filipino artist Emmanuel Garibay, an artist who has received wide recognition in his native country for his challenging and moving realist images of Filipino society. He is a person of great warmth with a steely eye for injustice and pompous self righteousness. In a country that is mainly Christian, […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 11th April 2024
image used with the artist’s kind permission Information Alma Lee lives in rural Wisconsin and notes that she sits down to work and never knows what is going to come out. She des not usually do preliminary drawings or plan or pray, but merely open herself to the flow of Christ and sees what […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 10th April 2024
Information Sliman Mansour is an artist in Palestine. His style, which has come to symbolise Palestinian national identity, has inspired generations of Palestinian and international artists. Using symbols derived from Palestinian life, culture, history, and tradition, Mansour illustrates Palestinians’ resolve and connection with their land. With women wearing traditional embroidered dresses, he represents Palestinian land […]
Daily Devotion Tuesday 9th April 2024
image used with kind permission of Judith Tutin Information Judith Tutin is an Irish-born artist living in Cornwall. She works in oil painting and cyanotype photography. Judith’s work explores abstract and semi-abstract representations of light sources, spiritual experiences and nature’s effect on surfaces. Strongly influenced by Italian Catholic art history and 20th century colour […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 8th April 2024
Information White Crucifixion is the first in Marc Chagall’s series of compositions that feature Jesus as a Jewish martyr and dramatically call attention to the persecution and suffering of Jews in 1930s Germany at the hands of the Nazis. The work is startling as the crucifixion, often seen by the Jewish people as a symbol […]
Sunday Worship 7 April 2024
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 7 April 2024 Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Welcome Hello and welcome to worship. In these joyful days of Eastertide we think of those early stories of disciples learning to form new communities; a scared community transformed by Jesus’ presence, a united community […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 6th April 2024
Information Dali was inspired to paint The Ascension of Christ by a “cosmic dream’ that he had in 1950, some eight years before the painting was completed. The vivid colours of his dream led to the painting of the nucleus of an atom as both the background to the painting and as a symbol of […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 5th April 2024
Information Currently a California resident, Dr He Qi Studied at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing Art Institute in China and Hamburg Art Institute in Germany. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at Fuller Theological Seminary (CA) and is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Art Institute of RUC (Renmin University of China,Beijing) He was the first among Mainland Chinese […]