Our movement
We are full Members, Associate, Youth and Staff Members, Volunteers and Friends of the Iona Community. What we share, expressed in many different ways, is an experience of the liberating power of Jesus Christ, and a commitment to the personal and social transformation that spring from the vision and values of the gospel.
Members share a common Rule which includes:
- Daily prayer and reading the Bible
- Mutual sharing and accountability for our use of time and money
- Regular meeting together
- Action and reflection for justice, peace and the integrity of creation
Members meet regularly throughout the year in local groups and in 4 plenary gatherings, including a week on Iona.
Our concerns
As well as serving on the decision and policy-making bodies of the Community’s corporate work, members particularly focus on a two-year theme which shapes and informs its programmes and publications. The current theme is Peace.
A commitment to Justice, Peace and the Integrity of Creation is an integral part of the Rule of the Iona Community, and a key aspect of our lives both as individuals and as a community. The Peace Working Group is currently conducting an audit of how we live out this part of our rule - as members, as local “Family”groups, and as a whole community. Members' involvement varies according to the area they live in and their individual circumstances, but it is clear that across the community there is an unwavering commitment to peace and justice, reflected in many types of activity, from quiet peacemaking in our neighbourhoods and families, to political lobbying and nonviolent opposition to weapons of mass destruction
There are also member-led groups working on:
There is a network of members engaged in inter-religious dialogue, and a Council-appointed group considering theological issues
Our organisational work
Although it maintains three island centres (
Iona Abbey and the
MacLeod Centre on Iona, one at
Camas on the nearby island of Mull), the Iona Community has its mainland home in
Glasgow, the base for:
For further information on the Community and its concerns, please write to the Leader of the Community - Rev. Peter Macdonald, at:
The Iona Community, 4th Floor, Savoy House, 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3DH
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2008 Annual Report and 2008 Annual Accounts
