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Comment and Debate on Faith Issues in Scotland September 2016 Issue No 262 £2.50 Comment and debate on faith issues in Scotland September 2016 Issue No 262 www.openhousescotland.co.uk £2.50 The retreat experience Being Jewish in Scotland: A sacred trust: interpreting and the power of silence. what’s changed? one another fairly. Editorial Madame Secretary General? In his 2009 encyclical, Caritas in Veritate, Pope Benedict diplomats, politicians and international civil servants who advocated reform of the United Nations Organisation. He have been nominated. called for a radical rethink of the global economy to end But even if one of them survives the opaque and highly the growing divide between rich and poor, and for the political process, which would require her to be acceptable creation of a ‘true world political authority’ which would to nine out of 15 members of the Security Council, and all work for the common good. Reform of the UN, economic five of the Council’s permanent members – China, France, institutions and international finance was needed, he Russia, the UK and the US – who have a veto, there is the argued, ‘so that the concept of the family of nations can question of whether her gender will bring added talents. acquire real teeth’. He added that innovative ways have to One of the candidates, Moldova’s Natalia Gherman, be found to give poorer countries a voice in decision argues that the answer is yes. Women, she believes, as making in order to ensure the development of all peoples members of a socially disadvantaged and often politically (n. 67). excluded group, can help bring the perspective of other A significant step towards UN reform may be taken next marginalised groups to the table. Others would say that month when a new Secretary General will be chosen to having a woman at the top would change the way the UN replace Ban ki-Moon, whose second (and last) term approaches conflict prevention and confidence building. expires on 31st December. For the first time, there are as Women make up half the world’s population but only many women as men standing for the post – five of each hold around 25 per cent of the UN’s highest positions, – and pressure is mounting for the UN to appoint its first despite the organisation’s stated goal of gender equality. It woman to be the world’s diplomat in chief. After 70 years may be that the first step towards the reformed UN which and eight male Secretary Generals in a row, it is surely Benedict called for will be taken by a woman moving into time to choose from the pool of experienced female the top job. Running riot in Rio How did Great Britain (Northern Ireland failed to would two golds have done for Somalia? The BBC contribute a medal) become a sports superpower? The provided blanket coverage of Rio. We were invited to sit media tell us it was by choosing Olympic sports where we back and enjoy the spectacle. How are we to get people to were strong and competition was weak e.g. sailing and be active when the average person has little possibility of horse riding. Lottery money for coaching staff and participating in sport? training facilities backed up by H M Treasury was poured First we should support the efforts of local volunteers into these. There was also the fortuitous citizenship who try to resist the pressure to close pitches and pools. It application as a teenager by Mohammed Farah, born in is an easy way for an authority to economise. Next is the Somalia, resident in the USA and now a millionaire. There encouragement of activities that won’t be confused with were no illusions about mass participation. Instead of sport, like walking in the park or on the hills. For the size doping we would have better boats and bikes. Eat your of its population Scotland is a relatively large country. The heart out, Honduras! access code gives us the right to walk in most of it. No, Activities that were once common amongst youngsters, you don’t need walking poles. Just one foot in front of the like swimming and cycling, demonstrate the case. No child other. The very young and the very old together. in Britain today would be allowed near a bike without a Once it had been agreed that a South American country helmet. Many could get an old bike but can’t afford the should get the chance to host the Olympics there was gear. Most British children can’t swim nor have visited always going to be a contrast between rich and poor. Our their nearest beach. Football makes the point even more commentators had a field day revealing the iniquities of clearly. The great attraction of kicking a ball about was Brazilian society. But Team GB’s medal haul is itself in you only needed a couple of jerseys for goalposts. Now stark contrast to the obesity epidemic in Britain. Poorer the kids have to be dressed like mini Messis. Whaur’s yer countries still send the best they’ve got but they are only Roy of the Rovers noo? making up the numbers. The Olympic spirit has been The decision has been made that sport is an elite pursuit. overwhelmed by sponsorship. It would be better now to Does anyone have a clue what a keiron is? Even in the not have openly professional championships where the best so well paid Scottish Premier Division it is becoming equipped win. And direct the lottery money back to the difficult to pronounce the names of the players. What deprived communities who pay the most into it. 2 OPEN HOUSE September 2016 Contents Spirituality LYNN JOLLY Page 3 Why retreat? Lynn Jolly Why retreat? Page 5 Being Jewish in Scotland Stephen J. McKinney Open House’s arts editor reflects on the retreat experience, its Page 7 A sacred trust history, those who seek it out and those who offer it today. Isabel Smyth Page 9 God in everyone Jane Brearley A friend of and contributor to this time of retreat provides us with an Page 10 The year that was magazine, from much experience, opportunity to tune in to that Noel Donnelly coins the phrase, ‘Re-treat’. As in, experience and to tune out everything ‘Be good to yourself: again.’ There is else. One wonders of course what Page 12 What makes a good parish perhaps more to that than simple ‘everything else’ could possibly have project? verbal neatness. A few days of silence been in the more remote areas of the Gerard R. Hand and prayer doesn’t have the appeal third to the fifth centuries: no social Page 13 Behind the scenes at Scalan for most people of a weekend at a media; no 24 hour news; no iphones; spa, but for some it is an essential no Celebrity Big Brother. What Prue King fixture in the calendar year. exactly did they feel the need to Page 16 Notebook Historically those would have been withdraw from? And yet it was there more or less exclusively priests and and then (and even before), not here Page 17 Letters religious but that demographic has and now, that such a need was Page 19 Reviews: books, film, music changed. The question as to how and properly identified and addressed. why that is, and how it changes the Does it speak, therefore, of an Page 24 Moments in Time place of the retreat experience itself, inherent, timeless human instinct and is worth contemplating. desire? The earliest desert fathers and The temptation is to conclude that it mothers were the first in the Christian does. That everyone has some need, tradition to stress the essential nature at varying levels, to ‘shut off’, take of silence and withdrawal as features ‘time out’, recharge: there are many of prayer. Hardly ones for narcissistic modern idioms that appear to refer to indulgence, they told us that ‘If the what it is people are doing when they inner person is not watchful, the ‘go on retreat’. A cursory glance at outer person cannot be watched.’ In the annually published directory of Thank you to all those who contributed other words, when we stop attending retreats in the UK will also evidence a to this edition of Open House. to what is going on internally our smorgasbord of options for anyone Open House, which was founded in outward presentation becomes less looking to dive in. You can dance, Dundee in 1990, is an independent authentic. Who hasn’t learned that paint, write, walk, do yoga, do the journal of comment and debate on faith lesson? Freud certainly did and made garden, study nature, study yourself, issues in Scotland. It is rooted in the something else of it. Arguably our sail, sing or sculpt. You can do any of reforms of the Second Vatican Council contemporary culture is still reeling these alone or with others; silently or (1962-65) and committed to the dialogue from the impact. with conversation included; in the which began at the Council - within the It’s a particular kind of ‘watching’ mountains, by the sea, or amid the Catholic Church, in other churches, and of course. It’s the kind Abba Moses city throng. Like everything else in with all those committed to issues of meant when he said ‘Go to your cell neo-liberal culture we can buy any justice and peace. and your cell will teach you version of it in the confident belief it www.openhousescotland.co.uk everything.’ It is predicated on the will make us feel better.
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