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 Place, and a dedicated group is working on issues of
- habitat – including land & resource use, sustainability, the built environment, housing
- identity - including pluralism, migration, nationality
- hospitality – including access, inclusion, dialogue, ‘sacred space’.
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:
· its central administration
For further information on the Community and its concerns, please write to the Leader of the Community - Rev. Kathy Galloway, at:
The Iona Community, 4th Floor, Savoy House, 140 Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow G2 3DH
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