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Morning Bell: when we are gone, the earth
This Morning Bell series explores our fraught relationship with the earth. The earth and many of her creatures are under severe pressure. We humans have been at best neglectful and at worst...
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Morning Bell: letters from St Clare
This Morning Bell series explores one of the letters of St Clare of Assisi (1193/4 – 1263) whose life and example we celebrate on 11 August. In her letter to (the fabulously-named) Ermentrude of...
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Morning Bell: Hail Mary, full of grace…
This series of Morning Bell begins on 15 August and marks the Church’s love and respect for Mary, the mother of Jesus. The Hail Mary is a prayer at the heart of devotion to her. The prayer is rooted...
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Morning Bell: Noon Songs
This series of Morning Bell is our first audio collaboration – with Ali Dorey, Philip Roderick and Lucy Bolster – known collectively as Play In Chants. Each day of this series there is a link to hear a...
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Morning Bell: Ecclesiastes series (for everything a season)
This series of Morning Bell is working with a well-known passage from Ecclesiastes, one of the wisdom books of the Hebrew scriptures and the Christian Old Testament. The writer of Ecclesiastes (‘the...
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Morning Bell: Song of the Wilderness – a series for Advent
Our series for Advent is working with phrases from some canticles (songs) of the Church for the season. The canticles themselves draw on scripture, with the opening canticle in this series ‘A Song of...
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Morning Bell: Theophany series
This Epiphany our focus in Morning Bell is on what is at the heart of the Orthodox celebration of this season – the Theophany – the manifestation of God the Holy Trinity in the baptism of Jesus the...
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Morning Bell: Lament series
January 27 is Holocaust Memorial day, a day to remember the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust under Nazi Persecution, and in subsequent genocides that continue today. In Morning Bell this...
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morning bell: 40 Temptations – series for Lent
We begin a new series for the season of Lent: 40 Temptations. This series draws on the gospel accounts of the testing and temptation of Jesus in the wilderness. In this series Ian has re-imagined the...
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morning bell: 40 Invitations – series for Easter
This new series for the Easter season titled 40 Invitations runs from Resurrection Sunday until Ascension day. It draws on themes and phrases from the stories told in the gospels about the resurrection...
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Morning Bell: The Fire of Your Love – series for Pentecost and Trinity
This series for Ascensiontide, Pentecost and the start of the Trinity season is titled The Fire of Your Love. Text for the series is comprised of lines from Morning Prayer for these seasons in Church...
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Morning Bell: Mercy series
‘The mercy of God is not an abstract idea’ says Pope Francis ‘but a concrete reality’. This series of Morning Bell is exploring the concept and the reality of mercy, and how the practice of mercy might...
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Morning Bell: Julian of Norwich series – a revelation of love
In this series of Morning Bell we are returning to the English mystic Julian of Norwich (1342 – 1423) and to a series of revelations (or ‘showings’) that she received on 13 May 1373. Mother Julian...
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Morning Bell: in our prayers – contemplative intercession
In the Tuscan hill-town Cortona this June we found ourselves pausing at the shrines of saints and motor bikes. Santa Maria is loved here, and Moto Guzzi is revered. At these sun and candle-lit-shrines...
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Morning Bell: You Are The Light
Welcome to a new series of Morning Bell – a chance each day to experience stillness, to explore contemplation and to enter prayer. In the northern hemisphere we are now deep into Autumn, the hours of...
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new publication: Seeking Light
Ian has a new publication out – Seeking Light – available now for download from online publisher Proost. In words and images Seeking Light explores a spiritual path through Advent, Christmas and...
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Morning Bell: Seeking Light
As winter begins we find ourselves Seeking Light in advancing darkness. This series of Morning Bell seeks to open up ways for us to discover the light within and through the darkness. It draws on Ian’s...
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a new book – Wilderness Taunts
We are delighted to let you know that Ian has a new book out now on Canterbury Press. Wilderness Taunts: revealing your light began as a personal journey through Lent, shared each day on Morning Bell....
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Morning Bell – Unfurling Devotions
As winter continues we return to the Devotions haiku series from Ian’s Unfurling poem collection. These short poems have emerged from Ian’s experience of attempting to be still, to be present and to...
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Morning Bell: Wilderness Taunts
Our series for Lent 2017 uses images from Ian’s new book Wilderness Taunts: revealing your light. This began as a personal journey in which Ian re-imagined the temptations faced by Jesus as taunts that...
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