Rooting Our Hope in Community – Postponed
Kathy was a former leader of the Iona Community, and her loss is being intensely mourned by that community, and more widely amongst progressive Christians of many denominations around the world.
We look forward to a future date when we can come together to discuss exactly those things that were so prominent in Kathy’s life – the creation of a community rooted in peace, justice and hope. For now, we join our prayers with all those who mourn her loss, including Ruth.
Join us for an online conversation between Ruth Harvey, Leader of the Iona Community, and Alison Webster, General Secretary of Modern Church.
How do we form communities of resistance to counteract the forces of atomisation in our world? What are the material and economic influences at work, and how can our spirituality give us a different focus? What urgent challenges face us today, and what could our response be?
“As a community of faith we live within a framework of hope. We recognise that the context in which many of us live can seem to be, and for many is, hopeless. And yet we choose life, we choose hope. We remain convinced that the community we seek must be lived out in the community that we practice. Our hope is in a living God who chose a time and a place to live alongside us in creation, to stand with us in our suffering, and who models what it means to speak out and speak up for all with no voice and little power. So we choose to find hope within the despair. And we ask: how must we live, what is ours now to do, to live out this hope within community?” – Ruth Harvey
The Iona Community is an international, ecumenical Christian movement working for peace and justice, the environment, the rebuilding of community and the renewal of worship. It has a dispersed, worldwide membership that shares in the rhythms and responsibilities of a Rule of Life that is central to this witness and binds through mutual accountability.