Here is a gallery of images that will perhaps give an insight into Quartz activity in 2025. Supporting worship and creative responses at the St Johns contemporary service, and January Forest church.
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A quick recap of four sessions at St Michaels in Dumfries in Jan 2025. These four sessions were the fruit of Fiona opening St Michaels sanctuary are for people to draw. Three of us from Quartz met up and sketched the window and then chatted about it. Following that Simon and Fiona met up and […]
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#febreflection 25
An opportunity to use Social Media to practice #sensingspirituality throughout February #febreflection returns. Here are some of the images and thoughts from last time. The idea is simple. And remember that searching for the #tags might be a good way to lift your spirits on a day when you are feeling down. Here are some […]
Improve your visual diet #febreflection Throughout February you are invited to join us and post moments where you are #sensingspirituality. Tag them #sensingspirituality and #febreflection and we will build up a library of visualisations of spiritual reality. Or simply search and find. We will probably be on Facebook, Instagram and Bluesky – but please let […]
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Faith and Art IV
Colouring Light In this, the last of four sessions, we will use stained glass to think about expressing the experience of #SensingSpirituality. We will meet at 1pm in St Michaels church Hall. Stained glass shapes the way we experience light. As a boundary between the source and viewer it is ambiguous. Does the stain detract […]
A quick insight into what was a very relaxing afternoon. This was Faith and Art III
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Fair Trade
An open discussion meeting with MSP Colin Smyth, the convenor of the Scottish Parliament cross-party group. For more information please visit www.facebook.com/DumfriesFairtrade
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Faith and Art III
Weaving Thoughts We will meet at 1pm in St Michaels church Hall on Wednesday the 22nd. This week we will move from “Drawing Meaning” using calligraphy onto exploring weaving thoughts and words together. In the second session there was the opportunity to try out some techniques of calligraphy. We also took time to reflect on […]
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QFC Sunday 19th Jan
As is our custom we will gather outside the Crichton chapel at 2pm on the third Sunday of the month. Everyone is welcome to join us, and we adapt what we do according to the people who turn up. Have a look around this website to get an idea of what to expect and please […]
Our brothers and sisters, living and departed… We cover a wide range of topics when we meet twice a month for CLC meetings. This January we are looking at a book called “Restoring the Woven Cord” and the threads of Church woven by ancestors like Mungo, Aiden, Hilde and many, many, more. The stories of […]