QuartzMany of those who are involved in Quartz have some familiarity with the way St Ignatius went about things. Here is a handy website and guide for those who are interested. If you are interested in something closer to home (well Dumfries) There are Jesuit centres in Glasgow and Edinburgh And the Scottish Episcopal church […]
Getting back to nature and spirituality are often linked together. Even those whonare comfortable in Church buildings will often take retreats into the countryside and green spaces. The houses we live in though, where we spend a lot of our time, can be places which become a spiritual home. What do you do that lifts […]
I’ve been working on something for the holiday club at St Johns this week. While I was searching my files I found this clip I made for a school assembly. Carry on making the world a better place!
Have you been to visit the high cross at Ruthwell yet? It is one of several crosses which were raised in the area between Whithorn and Bamburgh at the hight of Anglian power. This cross is particularly famous because it has words from a poem called “The Dream of the Rood” engraved on it. The […]
Reflecting whilst Felting Quartz members contribute to using visual arts at the contemporary service in St John’s. Most church goers are used to using music and singing to aid their worship. Some of us learn as we figit, and find meaning in visualisation too. On Sunday the 11th of May we were led in a […]
A picture, or a poem, is the death of possibility. A great and terrifying cloud of potential, collapses. The dead scales of art are experienced, while the artist struggles to shed skin. To hold a cloud of unknowing in tension, and sense the moment of rain. All are able, Some have skill, Make the time.
Artists can help us stretch our minds. This exersize can take effort. Making the effort has rewards though. Just as a runner trains for a race, we can train our minds to be flexible and resiliant. There is Truth in the solidness of stone, but a skilled artist can make it look like a pillow. […]
Easter 2025 Quartz Forest Church Walking out from St John’s on Sunday I wondered about how long we have been doing this, and whether we should continue. The weather was was certainly great! But it had been a long day starting at 20.30 the previous evening, with an 08.30 gathering the next morning and then […]
March 2025 Forest Church Our last post describes what we set out to do, this one is a small insight into what happened. It is written from my perspective, but if you were there or joined in online please use the comments to add to it! We read from texts and creation. It interests me […]
Yesterday evening at the Contemporary Service in St Johns we reflected on the theme “God is good”. We were encouraged to think about where and what we recognise as good. As part of our creative response we spent some time reflecting on where we see good things. We used a drawing of a tree to […]