MAW Remembrance Lecture for 2008.
Hope in a time of war; a religious perspective on peacemaking
Kathy Galloway
The text of this lecture has recently come to light, and speaks to us as appropriately now as it did eighteen years ago. It can be downloaded here: https://abolishwar.net/wp-content/uploads/2008_rem_lect.pdf
Kathy Galloway died in 2025; the Iona Community wrote at the time:
“We mourn with the world the loss of a truly prophetic voice of faith for justice, peace and the radically urgent transformation of unjust structures.
Kathy was an inspiration, companion and role model not only for the wider world, but also of course for so many of us in the Iona Community. She influenced thousands of people with her compassion, radical voice for justice, wise words and powerful leadership. She was co-Warden of Iona Abbey in the 1980s and editor of the Coracle magazine in the 1990s. In 2001, Kathy was the first woman to be elected as Leader of the Iona Community, serving in that role until 2009 and then again in the 2010s.
Her poetry and prose writing, widely shared, speaks eloquently of the pain, passion and purpose of life on God’s good yet oh so fragile Earth.”
Remembering Kathy Galloway: https://iona.org.uk/kathy-galloway/