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The season of Lent is almost upon us, so here's a selection of resources for 2012 to use for reflection, prayer, and enagaing deeply with our faith in the lead up to Easter.

Are you planning to do something different for Lent this year? Post your thoughts below or go to our Facebook page or tweet to @SCM_Britain to share your ideas and reflections.

Our final contribution on the theme of the SCM annual conference 'With All Your Mind' comes from our Groups Worker Lizzie Gawen, who reflects on loving God through word, thought, and deed.

For the third in our series of blog posts leading up to the SCM annual conference 'With All Your Mind', Christian writer Matt Bryant explores how we can be strengthened in discipleship as we think through our faith:

For the second in our series of blog posts leading up to the SCM annual conference 'With All Your Mind', Student Outreach Worker and President of Bristol Christian Connexion Jessica Cheetham reflects on the role of trust in our relationship with God:

Loving God with all your mind is to act subversively.

It requires a bold claim of trust, embracing a relationship where we don’t need to be afraid, timid or anything other than ourselves.

Leading up to SCM's Annual Conference 'With All Your Mind', the professor and theologian John Hull writes the first of a series of blog posts reflecting on the theme of this year's conferene and asks, "what does it mean to love God with all your mind?":

For the fourth blog in our series leading up to the SCM Autumn Gathering, 'No Hands but Ours', Durham University student Sam Slatcher explores the global nature of Christ's body:

In celebration of Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s eightieth Birthday, I feel a mention of Ubuntu is necessary. This is especially as the concept of Ubuntu, I am discovering, is rather like the theme of this series “No hands but ours”.

For the third blog in our series leading up to the SCM Autumn Gathering, 'No Hands but Ours', SCM Glasgow member Debbie White explores the sacrificial nature of discipleship:

Leading up to SCM's Autumn Gathering 'No Hands but Ours', Student Reps Worker Chris Wood writes the first of a series of blog posts reflecting on St Teresa of Avila's prayer Christ has No Body:

Christ has no body but yours,
No hands, no feet on earth but yours,
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
Compassion on this world