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SUMMARY:Odd women and even odder men - John Bell (FULLY BOOKED)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Odd women and even odder men – John Bell: 27th September – 3rd October – FULLY BOOKED \n(WAITING LIST: please contact ionaabbeybookings@iona.org.uk to add your name.) \nInfanticide encouraged by a bald man\, a king humiliated by a female protestor\, a poem about trees to undermine tyranny\, and wild honey past its sell-by date. It’s all in the Bible\, where minor figures become heroes and the big noises are silenced. We explore hidden gems and unlikely saviours.  \nIn early decades\, the News of the World advertised itself with the strap-line ‘All human life is here’. The same could or should be said of the Bible\, but for many people of faith and on the fringes of faith\, it is a largely unexplored book. We know who the names of the ‘greats’ -Abraham\, Moses\, David\, Jesus\, Paul. But the lesser luminaries have much to offer\, especially in the Hebrew Scriptures which abound in mini-biographies which are seldom explored.  \nJohn Bell has had a long and deep fascination with the Bible\, especially the people and incidents which do not appear in the Sunday readings. These lesser known texts humanise the scriptures and turn black and white into technicolour. And many of these will be up for exploration in this week at Iona Abbey. \nProgramme leader \n\n\n \n\nJohn Bell is an ordained minister\, a member of the Iona Community and a writer and occasional broadcaster. He is a much-loved contributor at Greenbelt Festival. He teaches and lectures worldwide on issues of faith\, social justice\, music and liturgy. \n\n  \n  \n\nCosts \n\n6 Nights: £846.00 per adult\, £423.00 for reduced rate – see our programme page for more information.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”BOOK HERE” style=”custom” custom_background=”#568ea4″ custom_text=”#eae8e8″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fportal.freetobook.com%2Freservations%3Fw_id%3D43736%26w_tkn%3DZ8ayvaEvw2SsrbCpGHLzeQZxQGqxQJy163aSHXVJnHbgCb53vffml4WKihlt5%26checkIn%3D2025-09-27%26stayLength%3D6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://iona.org.uk/event/odd-women/
LOCATION:Iona Abbey Centre\, Isle of Iona\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Iona Abbey Programme 2025
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SUMMARY:Faith and Friendships (3 night stay also available)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Faith and Friendships: driving positive change in challenging times: 4th – 10th October 2025 \nWe live in an increasingly polarised world with very few opportunities to get away and spend meaningful time with people of different backgrounds to our own. This Faith & Friendship week is for those who are\, or who would like to be\, engaged with communities\, bringing people together across difference and seeking to nurture and implement values related to peace\, justice\, and compassionate leadership. \nGathering with individuals of diverse faiths and backgrounds\, this week will be rooted in lived experiences. We will develop practical skills\, have opportunities to listen and share wisdom\, renew our confidence and build new connections. Together we will explore the theme in practical\, creative and interactive ways. \nThree night stays now also available for this week\, from 4th – 7th October or from 7th – 10th October. However\, due to the nature of the programme\, those staying for three nights won’t be able to attend the Faith and Friendships – thank you for your understanding. \nProgramme leaders    \n\nWahida Shaffi has over 20 years’ experience working with diverse communities from across the UK. She is a qualified chaplain\, social worker\, vocational assessor and trainer\, and author of the book Our Stories Our Lives: Inspiring Muslim Women’s Voices. She completed her MA in international politics at the University of Bradford’s Department of Peace Studies.  \n  \nChristy Bischoff is a storyteller and community facilitator with over 15 years’ experience supporting refugees in Bradford. Her work centers on healing\, resilience\, and connection—shaped by personal experiences with cancer in her family. She leads workshops on recovery\, community arts\, and collective wellbeing\, and holds an MA and MPhil in Conflict Resolution from the University of Bradford. \n  \n  \n  \nCosts \n6 Nights: £846.00 per adult\, £423.00 for reduced rate – see our programme page for more information.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”BOOK HERE” style=”custom” custom_background=”#568ea4″ custom_text=”#eae8e8″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fportal.freetobook.com%2Freservations%3Fw_id%3D43736%26w_tkn%3DZ8ayvaEvw2SsrbCpGHLzeQZxQGqxQJy163aSHXVJnHbgCb53vffml4WKihlt5%26checkIn%3D2025-10-04%26stayLength%3D6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]\n\n			\n\n			\n\n			\n			\n			\n			3 Nights: 4th - 7th Book Here\n\n			\n			\n			or\n			\n\n			\n\n			\n			\n			3 Nights: 7th -10th Book Here\n\n			\n			\n			\n			\n			[/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://iona.org.uk/event/faith-and-friendship/
LOCATION:Iona Abbey Centre\, Isle of Iona\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Iona Abbey Programme 2025
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SUMMARY:Festival of writing and storytelling (LIMITED - 2 PLACES AVAILABLE)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]\nFestival of Writing and Storytelling: 11th – 17th October\nThe Festival of Writing and Storytelling is open to all who love to read and listen to stories. Whether you are an experienced writer or exploring writing for the first time\, this week is for you. \nYou’ll get the opportunity to workshop with writers from different backgrounds and genres\, to find out more about different creative processes\, and to find your own literary voice along the way. \nThere will also be plenty of time to enjoy hearty meals from the Iona Abbey Kitchen\, explore the rugged and wild island landscape\, tell stories by the fireside\, and share in the love of words as a community – written\, read and spoken. \nOpen to all\nWe’re also delighted to share that the following festival events are open to the public in Iona Village Hall. Free admission\, booking not required. \nWednesday \n11am-12:30pm BOOK LAUNCH Blue: A Lament for the Sea (Liz MacWhirter) \n2pm-3:30pm WORKSHOP Iona Stories (Jan Sutch Pickard and Friends) \n4pm-5:30pm BOOK LAUNCH When Prayer Doesn’t Work (Margaret Somerville) \nThursday \n2pm-3:30pm BOOK LAUNCH Kaitlin Curtice Everything is a Story \n4-5:30pm AUTHOR TALK Alistair MacIntosh Depths of Mentorship in Spiritual Writing \nFestival Contributors \n\n \nKaitlin Curtice is an award-winning author\, poet-storyteller\, and public speaker. As an enrolled citizen of the Potawatomi nation\, Kaitlin writes on the intersections of spirituality and identity and how that shifts throughout our lives. She also speaks on these topics to diverse audiences who are interested in truth-telling and healing. As an inter-spiritual advocate\, Kaitlin participates in conversations on topics such as colonialism in faith communities\, and she has spoken at many conferences on the importance of inter-faith relationships. Kaitlin leads workshops and retreats\, as well as lectures and keynote presentations\, ranging from panels at the Aspen Climate Conference to speaking at the Chautauqua Institution and at universities\, private retreat centres\, and churches around the world.  \n \nAlastair McIntosh is a human ecologist whose work connects the social and environmental problems of the world to a call for spiritual deepening. He lives in Govan from where George MacLeod founded the Iona Community. Alastair is a founding trustee of the GalGael Trust that builds community in hard-pressed social contexts\, an honorary professor in the School of Education at the University of Glasgow and the author of a dozen books. The books most pertinent to this week are Parables of Northern Seed: Soil and Soul: People versus Corporate Power (Aurum 2001)\, Hell and High Water: Climate Change\, Hope and the Human Condition (Birinn 2008)\, Poacher’s Pilgrimage: a Journey Through Land and Soul (Birlinn 2016) and Riders on the Storm: The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being (Birlinn 2020).  \n\n \nLiz MacWhirter is a writer\, PhD researcher and affiliate lecturer at the University of Glasgow. ‘Blue: a lament for the sea’ (Stewed Rhubarb Press\, 2025) explores ecological grief on Iona. ‘Black Snow Falling’ (Scotland Street Press\, 2018) gained a Carnegie Medal nomination. Other poetry can be found at Lucy Writers\, Yale GCRE\, Theology in Scotland. Her essays and articles feature in peer-reviewed journals. “In haunting\, melodic lyric\, MacWhirter turns language itself into a ‘thin place’ of remembering\, reckoning and renewal\,” Prof Jenn Ashworth\, author of Ghosted.  \nRev. Dr. Margaret Somerville\, founder of Interfaith Alignment\, creates inclusive programmes that foster connection\, reflection\, and growth. An educator\, minister\, and author\, she collaborates with the Iona Community to advance justice\, peace\, and interfaith dialogue. \n  \n  \n \nJan Sutch Pickard is a poet and storyteller who has lived on the Ross of Mull for 21 years\, after spending six years on Iona as Deputy Warden and then Warden of the Abbey. After that she served as an Ecumenical Accompanier (Peace Monitor) in Palestine and Israel. Now she enjoys less responsibility: wandering on the shore watching oyster-catchers or on the common grazing listening to the larks. Work published by Wild Goose\, the imprint of the Iona Community\, includes ‘Between high and low water’ and ‘A pocket full of crumbs’.  \nCosts \n6 Nights: £846.00 per adult\, £423.00 for reduced rate – see our programme page for more information.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”BOOK HERE” style=”custom” custom_background=”#568ea4″ custom_text=”#eae8e8″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fportal.freetobook.com%2Freservations%3Fw_id%3D43736%26w_tkn%3DZ8ayvaEvw2SsrbCpGHLzeQZxQGqxQJy163aSHXVJnHbgCb53vffml4WKihlt5%26checkIn%3D2025-10-11%26stayLength%3D6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://iona.org.uk/event/festival-of-writing-and-storytelling/
LOCATION:Iona Abbey Centre\, Isle of Iona\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Iona Abbey Programme 2025
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SUMMARY:Second Sunday Sing
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=””]\nJoin Iain and Jane to sing through some Wild Goose favourites and learn new songs from around the world. \nRefreshments will be provided and we’ll close with a short time of worship. \nGorbals Parish Church\, 1 Errol Gardens\, Glasgow\, G5 0RA (please note this event is not available online).[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]No need to register. You’re welcome to just turn up at Gorbals Parish Church on the day.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://iona.org.uk/event/second-sunday-sing-12-10-25/
LOCATION:Gorbals Parish Church\, 1 Errol Gardens\, Glasgow\, G5 ORA\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Wild Goose Resource Group
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251024T090000
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SUMMARY:Time and Space (Limited availability)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]\n\nTime and Space: 18th – 24th October 2025. \nDo you need some time and space in your busy life? Come to the Abbey.   \n Our Time and Space weeks offer just enough structure and community for you to rest and reconnect. Join us in the ‘thin place’ between heaven and earth and be part of the rhythm of work and worship that frames life at the Abbey.  \nYou ‘ll have the opportunity to:  \n\nenjoy the wild and rugged scenery \n\n\njoin our weekly pilgrimage. \n\n\nparticipate guided reflection and small group conversations \n\n\ncreatively explore issues of concern such as inclusion\, ecological justice and peace \n\n\nenjoy creative art opportunities \n\n\ntake part in daily worship \n\n\nwork with other guests on shared tasks \n\n\nshare tasty meals from the Iona Abbey Kitchen \n\nCosts \n\n6 Nights: £846.00 per adult\, £423.00 for reduced rate – see our programme page for more information.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Book Here” style=”custom” custom_text=”#666666″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fportal.freetobook.com%2Freservations%3Fw_id%3D43736%26w_tkn%3DZ8ayvaEvw2SsrbCpGHLzeQZxQGqxQJy163aSHXVJnHbgCb53vffml4WKihlt5%26checkIn%3D2025-10-18%26stayLength%3D6″ el_class=”tealbtn generalbtn”][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://iona.org.uk/event/time-and-space-10/
LOCATION:Iona Abbey Centre\, Isle of Iona\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Iona Abbey Programme 2025
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DTEND;TZID=UTC:20251031T090000
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SUMMARY:Contemplation in Community - with Stephen Wright (Fully Booked)
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Contemplation in Community – with Stephen Wright: 25th – 31st October 2025\n6 night stays available. \n\n\nWe invite you to join us for this special week of contemplation in community. This week is led by Stephen Wright a member of the Iona Community. It is intended for those who are comfortable with deep spiritual inquiry and ready to go deeper along that particular Way known as contemplation. Stephen will offer an insight into the Heartfulness nature of contemplation\, how to be open to it\, and how to live the contemplative Way in all the gifts and challenges of our everyday lives. \nOur time here will centre around an intensive engagement with contemplative practices. There will be daily periods of group work\, reflection and conversation\, combined with long periods of solitude\, silence and stillness. Both will aid the inner prayerful and reflective journey that supports our longing for relationship in the One in whom ‘we live and move and have our being’. \nWe will be further nurtured by the sacred presence of Iona Abbey and its community\, the elemental beauty of this special island and its long history of attentiveness to the sacred. \nThere will also be moments of grounding our insights by helping with the everyday tasks of living in community. The deep inner life does not have to be separate from the outer. \nShared expectations and practicalities\nMost meals and interim activities will be taken in silence\, but there will be opportunities\, for those who wish\, to enjoy social time and conversation.  \nAccommodation will be offered as single occupancy rooms at Iona Abbey. Private time is an essential component of this programme. However\, we can offer room sharing if you wish to bring a close friend or partner also wishing to join the course. \n\n\nFacilitator\nLed by Stephen Wright\, this programme will draw upon the collaborative work of the Sacred Space Foundation and the Diocese of Carlisle in the St. Kentigern School and Community for Contemplatives. Stephen is a Member of the Iona Community\, a director of the Sacred Space Foundation\, an ordained Interfaith minister and spiritual director. \nYou can listen to Stephen’s Heartfulness webinar\, given to the Iona Community in May 2022\, here: \n \nCosts \n6 Nights: £846.00 per adult\, £423.00 for reduced rate – see our programme page for more information.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”Book Here for 6 nights: 25th – 31st October” style=”custom” custom_background=”#568ea4″ custom_text=”#eae8e8″ link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fportal.freetobook.com%2Freservations%3Fw_id%3D43736%26w_tkn%3DZ8ayvaEvw2SsrbCpGHLzeQZxQGqxQJy163aSHXVJnHbgCb53vffml4WKihlt5%26checkIn%3D2025-10-25%26stayLength%3D6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column]
URL:https://iona.org.uk/event/contemplation-in-community-2025/
LOCATION:Iona Abbey Centre\, Isle of Iona\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Iona Abbey Programme 2025
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