'Finding Abundance in Scarcity: Steps Towards Church Transformation - A HeartEdge Handbook' is a new book from Canterbury Press which includes contributions from myself and others at St Martin-in-the-Fields.
The publisher's description is as follows:
'All churches have had to learn to do things differently during closure due to the coronavirus pandemic. None has been more imaginative or inventive than London's St Martin-in-the-Fields. Through its HeartEdge programmes, it has continued many aspects of its ministry, and developed significant new initiatives and is now a virtual college with an impressively varied programme for practitioners.
Here the St Martin's team reflects theologically and shares its newly found pastoral and practical wisdom in many areas:
- Finding God in Lockdown
- Meeting God and One Another Online
- Rediscovering Contemplative Prayer
- Facing Grief amidst Separation
- Preaching at Such a Time as This
- Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Time
- Hearing Scripture Together in Difficult Times
- Praying through Crisis
- Creating a Community of Practitioners
- Finding Faith at Home
- Conclusion: A Strategy for Transformation
The book uses a similar format to our earlier Liturgy on the Edge: Pastoral and attractional worship in which I wrote about the creation of Start:Stop at St Stephen Walbrook.
Both books can be bought from the online shop at St Martin-in-the-Fields, as can my own The Secret Chord, an exploration of what makes a moment in a 'performance' timeless and special, co-authored with Peter Banks.
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Great Sacred Music - Giving Thanks.
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