This morning I was leading a short (15 mins) Communion service for Palm Sunday on Zoom for our weekend students.  Because this is me, and because I think it matters, I spent far longer setting up the space than leading worship.

Zoom church - or Zurch - will always have a special, if bittersweet, place in my heart. Born in the adversity of a global pandemic, honed to meet the needs of a congregation who stayed online for two years, recalling memories of people now 'promoted to glory' not from Covid but because of age, infirmity or other illness that meant they never returned to onsite church... 

Choosing pieces of music that connect me to times and places, people and congregations...

And a hot cross bun for communion bread, because why not?

Since my move to Glasgow, no Palm Sunday is complete without listening to this piece of music 

Whatever Palm Sunday looks like, or means, for you, may it be the start of a truly Holy Week.