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==Modern era==
[[Image:Columba_Bay.jpg|left|thumb|300px|St. Columba's Bay, where the saint first landed on Iona]]
In 1938 the Church of Scotland Minister George MacLeod founded the Iona Community, an ecumenical Christian community of men and women from different walks of life and different traditions in the Christian church that is committed to seeking new ways of living the gospel of Jesus Christ in today's world. The Community, which has care of the abbey, despite Despite its ecumenical scope, the Community is primarily affiliated to with the [http://www.churchofscotland.org.uk/ Church of Scotland], to whose General Assembly it reports annually. It has care of the abbey.
The community is doctrinally liberal, strongly committed to working for social justice and produces much contemporary Celtic Christian material through its [http://ionabooks.com/ Wild Goose] arm. Such material, however, is sometimes at wide variance with Orthodox Christianity (e.g. in its frequent avoidance of the [[Holy Trinity|Trinitarian]] name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and its replacement with economic descriptions of divine action, such as 'Creator, Redeemer, Sanctifier'). This said, the community is not tied up with any form of neo-pagan Celtic religion.