Pilgrimage on Iona to Columba's Bay As I write this, I am sitting in the attic room of a B&B in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, Scotland. My high windows overlook the harbour where I'll leave from very early tomorrow morning to cross The Minch on the ferry, to get to mainland Scotland. The sea is calm and pink in the light of the setting sun. The wind changes here by the hour. Yesterday the wind was so strong I could have spread my arms and flown across The Minch. Parents had to hang on to their children! I travelled last week to Iona to attend a pilgrimage/retreat led by John Philip Newell, author and poet who is internationally acclaimed for his work in the field of Celtic Christianity, The island of Iona, off the west coast of Scotland, is the symbolic centre of Scottish Christianity. In 563 AD, Columba, with thirteen followers, landed at the south end of the island, at...