Highland Faith Series · Book One
What Remains
Faith at the Edge of Scotland
Fr Charles Egbon, MSP
Paperback, 115 pages · First edition · Published 2026
Approved for publication by Very Rev. Clement Kanu, MSP, Superior General of the Missionary Society of St Paul.
A priest who has watched the faith both flourish and fall, writing for the parents who pray in the dark.
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In the Scottish Highlands, fewer than a hundred parishioners now gather in churches that once held thousands. Fr Charles Egbon walks the roads of Lochaber, where elderly parishioners carry the faith alone, and where a First Communion is often a family’s last contact with the Church.
He has ministered in Nigeria, Malawi, London, and now Scotland. In Malawi his parish numbered more than thirty thousand. Here it numbers a handful. He has stayed.
Twenty-three short, contemplative chapters for the parent praying for an adult child who no longer comes to Mass, for the grandparent watching grandchildren drift away, and for the quiet love that does not go away.
Praise
“This series of beautiful, poignant reflections observes the quiet persistence of people of faith living in a culture that has left faith behind. Many thoughtful Christians will identify with the gentle truths explored here: that hope is something to be practised rather than felt, that faith can be its own reward, and that we can learn to trust that silence is not absence.”
“This book is a work of beauty: beauty in the monotony of the daily struggle, the harsh weather conditions, and then the beauty of the faithfulness of each person. I have pondered this manuscript over all these weeks. It is something that can be read all over again.”
“Every parent who has watched their child drift from their faith knows that feeling of anxiety, the questioning of their own responsibility. Where did I fail? Fr Charles’s book is rare in that it binds grief and hope together, without ignoring the pain or wallowing in it. For any parent weighed down by such a cross, I would recommend this book.”
“To an 86-year-old man living on his own in the Western Highlands, this book rings very true. Reading it is like listening to music: when it is finished it does not go away but lingers in the memory and affects how one reacts to life. I like it very much.”
“Fr Charles has written about a world I recognise from the inside. The quiet walks, the half-empty pews, the prayers that keep being said even when the answers do not come. This book made me feel that the life of an ordinary person of faith is worth something. That it is seen.”
“The descriptions of weather, landscape, and church buildings are vivid and evocative. Fr Charles captures what it feels like to be in a minority. But what stayed with me is the hope. The faith in these pages is not dead. It is hunkered down, like nature in winter, which also regrows and flourishes in due season, in God’s good time.”
“A searingly honest portrayal of faith in the West Highlands of Scotland. The characters are beautifully drawn and their concerns perceptively rendered. Fr Charles Egbon does not try to soften what is happening, but his conclusion is reassuring. I felt stronger for having read it.”
About the author
Fr Charles Egbon, MSP
Fr Charles Egbon is a priest of the Missionary Society of St Paul. He holds a first-class degree in Philosophy and a degree in Sacred Theology from the National Missionary Seminary of St Paul, Abuja, Nigeria, an affiliate of the Pontifical Urbaniana University, Rome. He is currently reading for a Master’s degree in Psychology at the University of Wolverhampton.
Before entering seminary, he earned a Bachelor of Technology in Physics (Electronics) from the Federal University of Technology, Akure, and worked as a senior IT professional in Lagos, holding certifications in IBM AIX and HP-UX enterprise solutions. He left a successful career to answer a call to the priesthood and was ordained on 20 June 2015.
He served for seven years in the Diocese of Mzuzu, Malawi, as Parish Priest of Holy Family Parish, Bowe, ministering to more than 30,000 Christians across 87 outstations and founding two schools. On moving to the United Kingdom he served as Director of the Mission Office of the Missionary Society of St Paul and as Assistant Priest of Holy Rosary Parish, Brixton, London.
He now serves as Parish Priest of St John the Evangelist, Caol, Fort William, and St Mary and St Finnan, Glenfinnan, in the Scottish Highlands, where fewer than 100 parishioners remain in his care. What Remains is his first book published under his own name.
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Book One of the Highland Faith Series. The second, The Weight You Carry, follows, and the series is written to be read in order.
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