Thought for the Week: Taking the long way home

Andrew Greaves reflects on the beginning of the UK Pilgrimage for Peace and Economic Justice

by Andrew Greaves 24th May 2013

‘Your holy hearsay is not evidence.  Give me the good news in the present tense.’  I first encountered these words of Sydney Carter’s while a student at Woodbrooke in the late 1970s, as the title of a powerful exploration of contemporary theology by Joan Fitch of Ambleside Meeting, which she was writing during her Quaker Fellowship year.  Joan’s lasting influence on my subsequent spiritual journey came to mind as I was reflecting upon the origins of the Peace Pilgrimage now making its way to London from Iona.