Blogs
Zimbabwe: Coup/Not a Coup
Submitted by SCM on Mon, 11/12/2017 - 14:44Nellia Mazarura, Zimbabwean student at Northampton University, tells of the frightening experience of leaving her home country to study in the UK, while her loved ones were living in an increasingly dangerous, unstable situation.
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The Fear of Missing Out
Submitted by Rob_C on Thu, 07/12/2017 - 13:05The ‘fear of missing out’ is an epidemic that is stressing out us Millennials. We have a constant view to the world through the window known as Social Media, where we spend a fair amount of time refreshing the same pages looking at the highlights of other people’s lives, and wondering why we’re not having as much fun/wearing the right clothes/living our best lives* (*delete as appropriate).
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Joy in Enough: Economics for People and Planet
Submitted by SCM on Mon, 04/12/2017 - 11:51SCM member and postgrad student, Adam Spiers, tells us about the recent Joy in Enough 'big workshop' in Sheffield.
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Many trans people are in danger for their lives, and some Christians don't help
Submitted by SCM on Tue, 28/11/2017 - 17:28Tina Beardsley writes about the recent hostility towards trans people and parents of trans children in the media.
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Rach's Diary - Special Saturdays and the Weeks Inbetween
Submitted by Rach Collins on Mon, 27/11/2017 - 16:48Rach has yet again been all over the place! Catch up with her latest adventures on the blog.
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Sexual Predators, #metoo and #churchtoo
Submitted by SCM on Wed, 22/11/2017 - 17:05Faith in Action Project Worker, Ruth Wilde, writes about the viral social media hashtag #metoo and how the new hashtag #churchtoo is exposing the problems of abuse in the churches.
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Durham SCM Groups: Building Inclusive Faith Communities in the North East
Submitted by SCM on Wed, 22/11/2017 - 10:17Alex Akhurst - Anglican Representative for Durham Joint Anglican and Methodist Society – gives an update on what his SCM group has been up to this term, including a summary of their recent panel event with Inclusive Church.
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Rach's Reflections - If I weren't a Christian
Submitted by Rach Collins on Tue, 21/11/2017 - 16:20Rach shares some reflections on Interfaith week.
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Through the eyes of Barth: The Bible as divine revelation
Submitted by SCM on Mon, 13/11/2017 - 16:00The last in our Bible blog series in the run up to A Light For All, Dan reflects on how the Barmen Declaration affects his reading of scripture today.
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Reading Scripture in Light of Jesus: The Bible as Discipleship
Submitted by SCM on Mon, 13/11/2017 - 14:21In the run up to A Light For All, our day event on the Bible in Lancaster on Nov 18th, Simone shares how he prefers to read scripture following the Anabaptist tradition.
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