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GOOSEgander 1 The newsletter of the Wild Goose Resource Group Spring 2017 no.39 EXTRACTED VERSION, 32 pages www.wildgoose.scot GOOSEgander Spring 2017 2 Note: JOHN L. BELL’s article below isn’t included in this extracted version of GOOSEgander 39 CONTENTS GOOSEgander is the newsletter of the WGRG, a 3 GOOSEeditorial semi-autonomous project of the Iona Community. 4 MAIRI MUNRO: A Tribute WGRG consists of three resource workers, John Bell, JOHN L. BELL & GRAHAM MAULE on the recent loss of our feisty friend ... Jo Love and Graham Maule. Gail Ullrich is the group’s administrator and Kirsty Campbell is the sales adminis- 7 COLUMBAFEST trator. News of weeWONDERBOX’s new summer festival. The WGRG exists to enable and equip congregations and clergy in the shaping and creation of new forms of 8 SHHON, The Sheepdog: A relevant, participative worship. Moving Tale (episode 1) Curious events during our recent move. The WGRG has to find a majority of its own funding. 12 GOOSEoose As a result, it exists on a provisional basis, only taking Bits & pieces about things Wild Goose ... on events for the coming twelve months at a time. The WGRG welcomes donations and other forms of financial 13 CELTIC Perspectives on Death & support (Gift Aid) towards its work. If you are interested Dying (part 1) in supporting the work in this way, please contact the JOHN L. BELL on Scottish/ Celtic practices. Group at the address below. 17 LITURGY gander: Orders for Personal Prayer WGRG prayer orders for each day. WILD GOOSE RESOURCE GROUP c/o Iona Community, 21 Carlton Court, Glasgow G5 9JP, 21 CHANGE Without Decay Scotland. News of the WGRG’s 2017 week on Iona. T: 0141-429-7281 22 SHHON, The Sheepdog: A E: [email protected] Moving Tail (episode 2) Web: www.wildgoose.scot Further curious events ... Wild Goose Resource Group WildGooseRG 26 NEW SONG gander A song taster. 28 SO LONG, Savoy weeWONDERBOX JO LOVE says farewell to our former base. Web: www.wildgoose.scot/weewonderbox 29 weeWONDERBOX weewonderbox GRAHAM MAULE on this new wonder. wee_wonderbox 30 TALKING matters JO LOVE on a basic human practice. 32 CATALOGUEgander 33 DR. BELL’S Surgery The Doctor’s usual cures for liturgical ailments and constipations. 35 GANDER at the Calendar A selection of Wild Goose & weeWONDERBOX events April-July 2017. www.wildgoose.scot GOOSEgander Spring 2017 2 GOOSEeditorial 3 CONTENTS GOOSEgander is the newsletter of the WGRG, a 3 GOOSEeditorial semi-autonomous project of the Iona Community. 4 MAIRI MUNRO: A Tribute WGRG consists of three resource workers, John Bell, JOHN L. BELL & GRAHAM MAULE on the recent loss of our feisty friend ... Jo Love and Graham Maule. Gail Ullrich is the group’s administrator and Kirsty Campbell is the sales adminis- 7 COLUMBAFEST trator. News of weeWONDERBOX’s new summer festival. The WGRG exists to enable and equip congregations and clergy in the shaping and creation of new forms of 8 SHHON, The Sheepdog: A relevant, participative worship. Moving Tale (episode 1) Curious events during our recent move. The WGRG has to find a majority of its own funding. 12 GOOSEoose As a result, it exists on a provisional basis, only taking Bits & pieces about things Wild Goose ... on events for the coming twelve months at a time. The WGRG welcomes donations and other forms of financial 13 CELTIC Perspectives on Death & support (Gift Aid) towards its work. If you are interested Dying (part 1) in supporting the work in this way, please contact the JOHN L. BELL on Scottish/ Celtic practices. Group at the address below. 17 LITURGY gander: Orders for Personal Prayer WGRG prayer orders for each day. WILD GOOSE RESOURCE GROUP c/o Iona Community, 21 Carlton Court, Glasgow G5 9JP, 21 CHANGE Without Decay Scotland. News of the WGRG’s 2017 week on Iona. T: 0141-429-7281 22 SHHON, The Sheepdog: A E: [email protected] Moving Tail (episode 2) Welcome to GG39 ... an expanded 36-page, He has been working on a new book of song texts bumper edition, in recognition that there’s been a wee which can be sung to familiar tunes, to be published Web: www.wildgoose.scot Further curious events ... interregnum since GG38. Our apologies for that are both by Wild Goose Publications (in the UK) and by Wild Goose Resource Group 26 NEW SONG gander due. We’re also writing with excitement from our new GIA (in USA). This will be called ‘Known Unknowns’ WildGooseRG Base (above) in Carlton Court. Jo (see her article on (see page 22 for an example). At the beginning of A song taster. page 24), is particularly thrilled that WGRG is based this year, he also embarked on a short sabbatical. in the hay loft of this former Clyde Shipping Company 28 SO LONG, Savoy stables. Come along and view it for yourself at the WGRG material is in demand elsewhere around the JO LOVE says farewell to our former base. weeWONDERBOX new series of weeWONDERBOX events in our very globe, too. ’Un Petit livre de célébrations’, a French Web: www.wildgoose.scot/weewonderbox own new hame (see page 25). Already, there have edition of ‘A Wee Worship Book’, no.4, was recently 29 weeWONDERBOX been visits from groups of Finns, Danes and Germans published in Switzerland & France, and firm links with GRAHAM MAULE on this new wonder. weewonderbox (‘Hei’, ‘Hej’ and ‘Hallo’ to all of you), and we look the Danish Church are being established. Kirkefondet, wee_wonderbox forward to welcoming some nearer neighbours as our Danish publisher colleagues recently published 30 TALKING matters well to this year’s continuing programme. a second collection of WGRG and Iona Community JO LOVE on a basic human practice. liturgical resources entitled, ‘Gudstjeneste Fra Kanten’ If ever you need to know about the upcoming (‘Services From The Edge’) 32 CATALOGUEgander schedule, of course you can check www.wildgoose. scot for weeWONDERBOX and other events. Do We hope you enjoy GOOSEgander 39. 33 DR. BELL’S Surgery visit and sign up for eNews updates or via this link: The Doctor’s usual cures for liturgical https://eepurl.com/byreMj As before, a downloadable (extracted) version of ailments and constipations. GOOSEgander is available. Visit the GOOSEgander It has been a particularly busy time, so if you were in page on the website: www.wildgoose.scot 35 GANDER at the Calendar touch during the flit and aftermath, thank you for your A selection of Wild Goose & understanding. weeWONDERBOX events April-July 2017. There is ongoing interest in the work of WGRG in North America and John continues to be invited by www.wildgoose.scot churches and others to lead events and courses there. GOOSEgander Spring 2017 GOOSEgander Spring 2017 4 MAIRI MUNRO: A Tribute Mairi Munro was a member of the work Wild Goose Worship Group from at its birth in 1983. She also fulfilled telling roles in the work of both Wild Goose Publications and the Wild Goose Resource Group. She died at the beginning of April this year. Here, John L. Bell & Graham Maule pay tribute to their friend and her unique, feisty, infectious life. Mairi Munro was fifteen when she came among us. She was a regular at a large monthly youth event called ‘Last of the Month’ (LOTM), which took place in central Glasgow. Up to 400 teenagers came – most of them from outside the city – and Mairi was one of a contingent who were driven in from a church in Hamilton. She was a keen singer and instrumentalist in choirs and bands and sometimes played her flute in whichever scratch ensemble led music in the LOTM closing worship. She was notable for her vibrant strawberry blonde/ red hair and fearless ability to try anything – something which had surfaced at the age of fourteen, when she travelled, unaccompanied, on public transport all the way from Scotland to France to visit her pen pal. FIONA EVANS During her years at university, she became one of aged people to try new things in worship, and were the first members of the Wild Goose Worship Group (Above) Mairi in able to get music out of the most petrified of stones. – a loose-fitting collection of young people, many of 2015; (Top right) whom initially claimed they couldn’t sing, but who Mairi in typical She had a unique ability to be no respecter of began to passionately experiment with new songs, mischievous mood; persons, whether they be bishops or bus drivers. This different methods of prayer, and a variety of ways was evident when she led groups, workshops and to share Scripture. She endeared herself to every- (Bottom right) events. Her lively theological mind and her love of body by her careful practiced irrelevance, genuine Rehearsing in Iona the Bible were married to her ability to find the right kindness and forthright way with words. She was not Abbey with the register of language, using appropriate and incisive the kind of person from whom you could walk away WGRG, 1999. means to encourage discussion to identify and dis- neutral. miss what was shallow, predictable or evasive. When in the late 80s, the Iona Community was On one occasion when one of Mairi and Alison’s looking for someone to take charge of its fledgling male colleagues was delayed from leading a singing publications department – Mairi got the job. Within event in Inverness, they assumed responsibility. The a few years, she then changed offices and became a repartee, of these two irrepressibly feisty young wom- member of the Wild Goose Resource Group (the full- en on a stage openly disagreeing with each other, time wing of the Worship Group), joining around the visibly unsettled the men in the hall until they realised same time as Alison Adam.