Thoughts of nuclear warfare are at the forefront of many these days, thanks to the cinema release of Oppenheimer. Former leader and decades-long campaigners against nuclear war, John and Molly Harvey, review Oppenheimer and remember the time they went to the cinema with a survivor of the Hiroshima bomb.
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Is it possible to grow as a global community in such a way that it will not ‘cost the earth’? What are we asking of our Members as we expand
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Image: Exploring gifts from Denmark in the refectory at Iona Abbey. Staff at Iona Abbey receive lots of intangible gifts from guests. Recently a large group from Denmark stayed. They presented
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Image Credit: Iona Community/ B.Forsyth The historic Iona Abbey has been recognised at the Argyll and Bute Sustainable Design Awards 2023 securing the ‘People’s Choice Award’. The awards aim to
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A Glastonbury Festival pilgrimage Ruth shares her daily diary from being part of the Iona Community presence at Glastonbury Festival 2023. The Iona Community has hosted a place of sanctuary,
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The team at Camas, our unique outdoor centre on the Isle of Mull, share about the busy start to the season:</span> We have built two new huts – thanks to
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Image: Saying farewell to Melanie (front centre) at the jetty. Credit: Iona Community/ S. Cairns What follows is a message sent by Melanie to the staff team at Iona Abbey.
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Image: Sitting in the Camas round house as part of the New Members programme 2022. Credit: Iona Community/ K. Schmid The Iona Community hallows, or welcomes and blesses, new Members each
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Each year in May the Iona Community shares a report with the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland through a Board (made up of Members of the Iona Community
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Rev Tom Gordon, long-standing Member of the Iona Community, has retired from his role of Convenor of the Iona Community Board. Tom steered the Board through the global pandemic, switching
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