Faith in Action

Refreshing Commitments: Connecting Through Sport

24 Jan 2019

Refreshing Commitments: Connecting Through Sport

How do you feel about the relationship between sport and faith? Personally, I’ve always been sports mad whether it’s playing it or watching it. Others hold the opinion that sport is full of overpaid prima donnas, supported by a bunch of...

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Refreshing Commitments: Loving the Earth

15 Jan 2019

I have mixed feelings about New Year’s Resolutions. There’s been a lot of backlash against the whole ‘New Year, New Me’ mentality, and understandably so. The whole concept can be attached to a lot of guilt and it can be pretty unhealthy. That being said, I love using this time of year as a fresh...

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Sharing the Burden

29 Nov 2018

I went to the Project Bonhoeffer conference in Leeds as part of SCM's Interrupted by God event. One of the really great things about the conference was the huge mix of ages and experience, from the group of SCM students from around the country, to other visitors, some from Leeds, and some from...

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Emma's Diary: Faith in Action Update

8 Nov 2018

Faith in Political Action Today - Bonhoeffer Day 2018

What is the purpose of the church? This is a question I often find myself wondering. We are faced with a decline in attendance, and it often feels like the church is ever more distant from wider society, and represents...

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Race, Equality and Universities: What’s our responsibility? An Invitation to Respond to the Race Equality Charter

30 Oct 2018

The University and College Union (UCU) recently released a report written by Professor Kalwant Bhopal and Clare Pitkin from the University of Birmingham examining the attempts of higher education institutions to engage with the Race Equality Charter (REC). Through the work of the Equality...

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Why Christians Should Be Involved In Politics

30 Oct 2018

As Christians we have a duty to try and build God’s kingdom here on earth, whether it be by acting differently to our peers, providing for those less fortunate, or random acts of kindness. One expression of this is by actively getting involved in politics. What I learned by working with Local...

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It’s Never “Just” War

16 Oct 2018

Look! Christ in khaki, out in France thrusting his bayonet … No! No! That picture is an impossible one, and we all know it.

–  Alfred Salter

I am a reluctant pacifist: I like uniforms, reading about War War One, and look forward to the day when...

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The GRA Reform: What is it and Why Does it Matter?

16 Oct 2018

You might have heard the phrases “GRA consultation” or “Gender recognition act” thrown about lately. Here’s what it's all about and why it's important to trans and non-binary people.

The GRA is the Gender Recognition Act 2004. It’s a piece of legislation that allows transgender people to...

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Pebbles and Pronouns

5 Oct 2018

I recently led a workshop about the complexity of language, about how we ‘Name’ one another and what political implications this might have.

As an icebreaker, I asked each participant to choose an object from a box. This box was full of random objects; sticks, stones, pieces of pot and a...

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Compassion Fatigue and the Cost of Discipleship

4 Oct 2018

I came across the concept of compassion fatigue through this article by Elisa Gabbert in the Guardian. She asked whether, in an era of 24 hour news updates and daily political...

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