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What is Discipleship? Lent 2025

5 Mar 2025

We hear the word ‘discipleship’ a lot within our faith. You may have heard it yourself at a church gathering, Bible study, or just in conversation. What does this really mean? What is discipleship, and how do we be disciples?

Discipleship is more than a theological concept, or complicated...

The "Sin" of Empathy and Bishop Budde

11 Feb 2025

It’s the day after Inauguration Day in the United States. Many of Washington’s powerful (and rich) are packed into Washington Cathedral for the National Prayer Service, listening to Bishop Mariann Budde, when she ends her homily by addressing the new President himself. She pleads for mercy for...

Bonhoeffer: The Harlem Renaissance, and the Black Church

28 Jan 2025

In 1930, Bonhoeffer arrived in New York to study at Union Theological Seminary. He arrived in Harlem during a time where there were two contrasting events taking place. The first was the Great Depression, which was a time of great economic hardship across America. In Harlem, which was a majority...

God is Just: A sermon for the Third Sunday of Epiphany

27 Jan 2025

A transcript of the sermon given by Revd Naomi Nixon, SCM's CEO, at St Mark's Church Leamington Spa on 26th January 2025.

Readings: Matthew 25 31-46, and Luke 1 46-55

When Marcella first asked me to speak this evening it was a hasty doorstep conversation,...

James Cone, Gender, and Womanist Critique

9 Oct 2024

In the UK, October is Black History Month, and to mark this I’d like to shine light onto the foundational work of James Cone,...

Prayers of Lament for Creation (from National Gathering: Theology Day)

1 Jul 2024

In your image,

we have capacity for flourishing

and desctruction.

Very good was your creation -

so why did you need day 6?

Millenia later,

Gaia suffers

but God reigns.

For your worship?

Rediscovering Jesus on the Cross: Lent 2024

26 Mar 2024

As we come to the end of Lent and prepare our hearts for Easter, it’s time for us to look back at our journey of rediscovery so far. At the start of Lent, I invited us to open our hearts to the possibility of encountering Jesus in places and situations we don’t expect - I hope that if you have...

Face to Face with Jesus: Lent 2024

19 Mar 2024

Face to Face with Jesus

Since the earliest days of the church, Christians have depicted Jesus in art. From AD 300 the familiar image of a bearded man with long hair began to emerge, which is still prominent even in much contemporary art. Images often reflect the ethnicity of the...

Meeting Jesus Through Rest: Lent 2024

12 Mar 2024

To be able to see Jesus with fresh eyes, it is very helpful to be well rested. The need to rest is both natural and sacred, but often it doesn't come easily. Jesus slept during the storm (Mark 4:38), but also almost every single day in his full humanity. There are countless verses about finding...