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DESCRIPTION:(Above: Photo of Ruth Harvey\, credit: Freya Austin)\nWe are ex
 cited to welcome Ruth Harvey as our keynote facilitator for the 2026 Clerg
 y Conference! The theme this year will be ‘Rooted in Hope: lived in Comm
 unity’.\nAbout Ruth\nBorn and brought up in Scotland\, with stints in Gl
 asgow\, Iona\, Stirling\, South India\, Aberdeen\, Germany\, Amsterdam and
  Edinburgh\, Ruth now lives in Cumbria\, NW England with views of the nort
 hern fells and Ullswater where she swims when she can. Having been brought
  up in faith-based intentional community\, Ruth is passionate about the po
 wer of intentional community\, gathered and scattered\, to model that hope
  to which we are called in the face of so much fracture.\nThis early immer
 sion in community led Ruth to train as a mediator. She worked for many yea
 rs in faith-based conflict situations and continues to volunteer with Plac
 e for Hope as a Practitioner\, Mediator and Conflict Coach\, facilitating 
 large and small group mediations. Ruth is also an editor and a writer\, co
 ntributing prayers\, poems and liturgies regularly to Wild Goose Publicati
 ons and other outlets. \nIn 2023\, Ruth took part in a nine-week listenin
 g pilgrimage across the lands now called Australia with the Wellspring Com
 munity\, and in Aotearoa/New Zealand. She met over 30 indigenous Christian
  leaders and explored with them questions about creation care\, climate ju
 stice\, and first nations indigenous rights. You can read her pilgrimage r
 eflection here.\nRuth is an ordained Church of Scotland minister and a mem
 ber of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Ruth and her husband Ni
 ck brought up their family (three daughters) on the edge of England’s la
 ke district. Ruth enjoys paddling a canoe and walking in the mountains.\nA
 bout the Conference Theme\n‘Rooted in Hope: lived in Community’\nThe I
 ona Community has been experimenting with the power of faith-based intenti
 onal community since1938. We do this through welcoming guests to share a 
 ‘common life’ with us at our residential centres on the Scottish islan
 ds of Mull and Iona. And we do this\, as a dispersed\, global Membership c
 ommunity\, through meeting monthly in one another’s homes. We pray\, sin
 g\, listen\, laugh and learn with one another about what it means to work 
 for the justice and peace of Christ’s gospel today. \nFounded in a time
  of war and the rumour of war\, we boldly assert that in the face of all t
 hat is fractured in our world\, there is hope in community. There is the h
 ope of new life nestled deep within all that is wrong. This is not a naïv
 e hope. This is an active hope\, that points beyond a fingers crossed opti
 mism to transformation. \nDrawing on her experience of a life lived in Ch
 ristian community\, Ruth will help us gently to explore the fractures faci
 ng our world today. We will dig deep into Scripture and other sources of w
 isdom\, including rich resources from the world of conflict transformation
 \, to reveal hope beyond optimism. And we will look at models of intention
 al community to learn from one another about how to live now for the good 
 of all.\nRegistration\nThe registration package will be emailed to clergy 
 on June 1\, 2026. Registration closes September 1\, 2026.
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LOCATION:Sorrento Centre
SUMMARY:Clergy Conference
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