Streaming the Sunday Service 1

Author: 
The Revd. Fraser Penny

The minister of Dunkeld Cathedral, Rev Fraser Penny, gives an account of how minister and congregation responded to the lockdown that accompanied the Covid-19 pandemic. Rather than film full services in the church buildings, use was made of the landscape, outdoor imagery, other meeting places in the parish, drawing on the history of the community as well as on talents, which emerged in the congregation in response to the crisis. It led to new approaches in worship, using music differently, and to wider ‘congregations’. Given as a talk at a study day on the subject (above), it raised questions about church practice and presence.

Reference: 
Volume 58 pp 3-9
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Fraser Penny was born in Perth. After serving parishes in Orkney and Airdrie, he has been for the last 23 years at Dunkeld Cathedral, Little Dunkeld, and Amulree and Strathbraan. During Lockdown, he pioneered a style of the streaming of worship which made use of the natural landscape, the local culture, and the talent within the congregations.