Rooted in Hope – Lived in Community

The Iona Community has been experimenting with the power of faith-based intentional community since1938. We do this through welcoming guests to share a ‘common life’ with us at our residential centres on the Scottish islands of Mull and Iona. And we do this, as a dispersed, global Membership community, through meeting monthly in one another’s homes. We pray, sing, listen, laugh and learn with one another about what it means to work for the justice and peace of Christ’s gospel today.

Founded in a time of war and the rumour of war, we boldly assert that in the face of all that is fractured in our world, there is hope in community. There is the hope of new life nestled deep within all that is wrong. This is not a naïve hope. This is an active hope, that points beyond a fingers crossed optimism. This is an active hope that calls us to transformation.

Drawing on her experience of a life lived in Christian community, Ruth will help us gently to explore the fractures facing our world today. We will dig deep into Scripture and other sources of wisdom, including rich resources from the world of conflict transformation, to reveal hope beyond optimism. And we will look at models of intentional community to learn from one another about how to live now for the good of all.