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There, in 1938, George MacLeod began to gather about him a group of young ministers and laymen. Together they evolved their own Rule of faith and worship-a Rule which makes them seem at once as mystical as Franciscans and as hardheaded as Stalinists...
Separateness & Union. The rebuilding of Iona's ruined abbey will take them, they figure, about seven more years. The abbey chapel had already been restored by popular subscription. MacLeod and his men have set out to rebuild the rest of the monastery...
Body & Soul. Those principles add up to no comfortable, carpet-slipper religion. One of Founder MacLeod's favorite quotations is from Dostoevsky: Love in practice is a harsh and terrible thing compared with love in dreams. MacLeod says: "Our present tragedy, with 'one world dying and the other powerless to be born,' is that the church is too ethereal in its instructions, and the world is too material in its constructions. Jesus Christ...
...Community men" meditate much on the meaning of the Incarnation, which they feel obligates all Christians to minister to men's bodies as well as to their souls. This obligation carries through to the body politic. "It is wrong," says George MacLeod, "to pray only for 'Margaret suffering from tuberculosis,' if you know too well the noisome tenement in and by which the suffering began. If we work with Margaret in prayer, we must work with Margaret's father in the housing issues at the next election...
...MacLeod feels that the Churches of Scotland and England have paid only stammering lip service to the vigorous promptings on this score from the late William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury. Says he: "They have been willing to listen to the Temple bells, but not to beat the Temple drums...