Listening from the Edge: Paying Attention to Church of Scotland Ministers’ Reflection on the Pandemic

This paper is a view from the edge, from a Church of Scotland minister who has moved in retirement from living and working at the centre of things, to live at the geographical periphery in a remote Hebridean island. When the lockdown began, he started to phone colleagues across Scotland. After makin...

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Main Author: Elliott, Gavin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group 2021
In: Rural theology
Year: 2021, Volume: 19, Issue: 1, Pages: 48-51
Further subjects:B Empirical Theology
B Covid-19
B Church of Scotland
B clergy studies
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Summary:This paper is a view from the edge, from a Church of Scotland minister who has moved in retirement from living and working at the centre of things, to live at the geographical periphery in a remote Hebridean island. When the lockdown began, he started to phone colleagues across Scotland. After making some four hundred calls, he concluded that paying attention to colleagues has given them and him great encouragement and hope in the darkness of a time of pandemic.
ISSN:2042-1273
Contains:Enthalten in: Rural theology
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1080/14704994.2021.1895423