Faith in Action

Refugee Week: What is it, why do we celebrate it and why is it so important – especially this year?

20 Jun 2022

Founded in 1998, Refugee Week is a week-long UK-wide festival in June (20th-26th June this year) that celebrates the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking asylum in the UK. For as long as I have been involved in social action and campaigning, I’ve always loved...

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World Refugee Day

8 Jun 2022

World Refugee Day comes around every year on the 20th June, June being World Refugee Awareness Month. Last year SCM began a long-term campaign focusing on the rights of Refugees and how the...

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Antony and the Johnsons - Hope There's Someone

24 May 2022

The song: Antony And The Johnsons- Hope There's Someone (Live in Stockholm 2006) - YouTube 

The song’s lyrics: Antony and the Johnsons – Hope There's...

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Pure exhaustion: the Queer Christian Experience

16 May 2022

I can guarantee you that if we were to start a discussion on the theology of queerness, I could talk to you all day. My grandparents like to employ the phrase ‘she could talk for England’ very liberally in my presence...

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Leymah Gbowee (and the women of Liberia) – A Life Lived Through Faith in Action

16 May 2022

May 16th is the International Day of Living Together in Peace. It is a day in which we are encouraged to recognise efforts to promote peace, tolerance, inclusion, understanding and solidarity. As such, it is a great time to reflect on the incredible work of Liberian peace activists...

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Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Martyr

11 May 2022

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over; the martyr dies and his rule begins” – Søren Kierkegaard (1).  

A martyr is someone who is executed because of their religious beliefs, i.e. their refusal to denounce or change their religion nor condone the contrary values...

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Bob Dylan - With God on Our Side

27 Apr 2022

The song: Bob Dylan - With God on Our Side (Official Audio) - YouTube

The song (The Neville Brothers’ cover featuring the replacement verse (3:13)): THE NEVILLE BROTHERS - WITH...

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Who Would Jesus Bomb? When Durham JAM Met CCND

25 Apr 2022

On Sunday 23rd January we were joined at JAM (Durham University’s Joint Anglican and Methodist Society) by Liddy from the Christian Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CCND). She delivered a workshop introducing us to CCND, covering the history of nuclear...

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In the Garden of Gethsemane

15 Apr 2022

In October 1971, a rock opera based on the Passions of Christ premiered on Broadway shortly before opening in the Westend. Inspired by a single line from Bob Dylan’s song With God on Our Side (1), which we’ll discuss in our next Everyday Theology blog, lyricist Tim Rice and composer...

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Modern Day Slavery – Understanding the Facts and How to Spot the Signs

30 Mar 2022

Last week, on the 25th March, the World marked the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. This day is designed to honour and remember those who suffered and died at the hands of the transatlantic slave trade system. However, it is also a...

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