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| 'I'VE SEEN WORSE': A BIOGRAPHY OF IAN FRASER, as shared with Ian Cranston – AVAILABLE NOW. For details on how to order, and to read an extract from Ron Ferguson's preface, see here … |
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| An interview with John Bell, from Read the Spirit |
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| EASTER WITNESS FOR PEACE AT THE GATES OF FASLANE, 31st March, 2012 |
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| Latest Iona Community e-bulletin |
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| San Ghan'ny (We Shall Sing): An evening of music for Palestine, in Arabic, English, Scots and Gaelic, Saturday, Feb 4th, Edinburgh. Music from Margaret Bennett, Karine Polwart, Lisa Rigby, Penny Stone – more info here |
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| 'It's time to close the gap between rich and poor': Church Action on Poverty – Poverty Action Sunday – 5th Feb |
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Welcome to Edition 7 of the Iona Community e-bulletin.
In this edition: News from India, Iona, Camas, Glasgow, America, Sweden, Orkney … We are a dispersed, global community working together for justice and peace and the coming of Christ's Kingdom on earth.
'WHEN DID WE SEE YOU SICK OR IN PRISON AND VISIT YOU?', by Eurig Scandrett
Community Member Eurig Scandrett has spent the past three years as part of a research project documenting the experiences of the Bhopal survivors, who have been campaigning for justice for 25 years. He sends this reflection on his and others' work for justice in India. Eurig has been Head of Community Action at Friends of the Earth, Scotland. Presently he is lecturer in sociology at Queen Margaret University.
AN INTERVIEW WITH JOHN L. BELL, by David Crumm
An excellent interview with author, musician, enabler and Community member John Bell. David Crumm is an American journalist and co-founder of the Center for Spirituality in American Life, a non-profit that networks innovative religious leaders who have fresh ideas for enlivening congregations.
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A COMMUNITY WEEK SERMON, by Peter Macdonald, the new Leader of the Iona Community:
' … 'Who you are is wrong’ is never a good starting point for faith. It places a never to be fulfilled obligation on the believer to get ‘right’, to win divine acceptance and approval, forever falling short, forever trying to please, never ‘right’, always ‘wrong’. The God of conditional love is not a good God but a tyrant, a guilt- inducing, life-denying, confidence-draining impostor, with whom none of us, not one of us, can ever be ‘right’ or in right relationship.
The Iona Community … bears witness to a God whose love is unconditional. Through our common faith, common task, common life, we experience and mediate for one another and to others, the grace of God …
NO MORE BHOPALS: The Campaign for Justice for Bhopal Gas Victims
NEED A MID-AUTUMN BREAK? COME STAY WITH US ON IONA – NEWS OF UPCOMING WEEKS AT THE ABBEY AND MACLEOD CENTRE – DISCOUNTS FOR BOOKING NOW!
CAMAS: SPREADING THE WORD ABOUT AN UPCOMING WEEK AT CAMAS, A letter from the new Camas Coordinator, Mary Ireson
THE GROWING HOPE APPEAL: SOME FUNDRAISING IDEAS FOR THE HOME STRETCH
HARVESTING THE WORLD: A LITURGY FOR HARVEST FESTIVALS
A NEW LITURGY BOOKLET FROM THE WILD GOOSE RESOURCE GROUP
THE AUTUMN PROGRAMME AT SCOTTISH CHURCHES HOUSE
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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PRAYER FOR PEACE, 21 SEPTEMBER
A Prayer from Jamaica from the International Day of Prayer for Peace, 2009 resources
WALKING THE TRACK, by Joan Jones
'In May 2009 at Camas a group of adult guests on the ‘Reading the Big Book’ week were considering the theme of ‘landscape’. At the morning Reflection session we told of our journeys to reach Camas – then we visualised the walk we had all taken down the track.
You begin where the track leaves the main road among cars, mailbox, dustbin, firewood pile and wheelbarrows. Far away you can see a wind turbine, and the people who meet you tell you ‘beyond that turbine is where you are going’ …'
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A REPORT FROM THE SWEDEN IONA-INSPIRED NETWORK GATHERING AT KUVARP (3–11 JULY)
AFRICA INVEST: SOME INFORMATION AND REFLECTION FROM THE ORKNEY FAMILY GROUP
NEWS AND DATES OF SOME UPCOMING IONA COMMUNITY PLENARIES
HOW SHALL WE LEAVE IONA?, a reflection by Lisa Bodenheim
Lisa is a minister, author and ex-Iona Resident Group member, now living in America. Find out how Lisa is getting on since leaving Iona …
JETTY WAKING, a poem by Jan Sutch Pickard
A SHORT TRIBUTE TO MARY PALMER, a friend of the Community who died in June
THE SUMMER DAY, by Mary Oliver
'Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?'
LIVING THE QUESTIONS
Living the Questions has been called 'an alternative to the Alpha course'.
Living The Questions is a source of curriculum and media for both seekers and ‘church alumni/ae’ convinced that Christianity still has relevance in the 21st century. It is a powerful and challenging exploration of Christianity and the issues it faces in the 21st century. Through various DVD programmes it offers people the chance to investigate progressive Christianity, with contributors such as Jack Spong, Marcus Borg, Dominic Crossan, John L. Bell, Tex Sample …
NEW TITLES FROM WILD GOOSE PUBLICATIONS: 50 GREAT PRAYERS FROM THE IONA COMMUNITY; IONA: GOD'S ENERGY, by Norman Shanks …
A NINETY-THREE-YEAR-OLD WOMAN TALKING ABOUT APPLES, by Neil Paynter
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Find out where John Bell will be speaking and leading Big Sings and workshops, about Peter Macdonald's work, about youth events, and about other Community events and gatherings …
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Freedom: a collection of short stories celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, from Amnesty International
Music by singer-songwriter, Mike Scott – and more
THE RELEASE OF ABDEL AL-MEGRAHI
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, 'the Lockerbie bomber', was released on compassionate grounds by Scottish Justice Minister Kenny MacAskill in August. Kenny MacAskill talked about the necessity of justice, but also about the necessity of showing 'mercy and forgiveness'.
How do you feel about the release about of Abdel Baset al-Megrahi? Are you encouraged that spiritual values are at work in the world; or is this too somehow, at bottom, about oil – or about arms sales; or is it hard to know what to think, in this world where so much is kept hidden from us by the Powers? …
What do you think? Share your views with others through the Iona Community e-bulletin!
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