The Iona Community’s Ruth Harvey on thin places and strong communities

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What does community look like in this increasingly fractured world? Iona Community Leader Ruth Harvey sounds a note of optimism that, although sometimes dispersed, intentional communities working for justice and peace can create thin places that connect us with each other and the divine.

Rev Ruth Harvey is Leader of the Iona Community, an ecumenical Christian community working for justice and peace in Glasgow, the island of Iona, and across the world. She is ordained in the Church of Scotland and is a member of the Society of Friends, the Quakers.

Ruth was on Arrernte Country in Alice Springs as part of the Caring for Creation Wellspring and Iona Listening Pilgrimage across Australia, coordinated by the Wellspring Community.

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