Willy Slavin

Author

Willy Slavin has spent his life championing the cause of the poor. Working as a priest for 50 years in the most deprived areas of Glasgow and Bangladesh and in hospitals and prisons, he is also known for his role in the late-2017 installation of the Homeless Jesus sculpture on a park bench in Glasgow. He has given up all his worldly possessions and has moved to a hut in a wood in the Falkland estate in Fife.

Willy Slavin has spent his life championing the cause of the poor. Working as a priest for 50 years in the most deprived areas of Glasgow and Bangladesh and in hospitals and prisons, he is also known for his role in the late-2017 installation of the Homeless Jesus sculpture on a park bench in Glasgow. He has given up all his worldly possessions and has moved to a hut in a wood in the Falkland estate in Fife.

Books

  • Life Is Not a Long Quiet River
    Paperback | Pub: 09 May 2019
    £12.99 £10.39

    Approaching old age need not be a thing to be feared. It can and should be a time of freedom and spiritual contentment. Our biblically allotted lifespan is ‘three score year and ten, or eighty if we are strong’. Even today, this is probably...