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Liberative Discipleship is Intergenerational

10 Apr 2025

This blog has been adapted from a talk that Niamh gave at Greenbelt in 2024 as part of SCM Young Voices. You can purchase this collection of talks on the Greenbelt website.

To be a disciple of someone is to...

Costly Discipleship

3 Apr 2025

When we talk of discipleship, the most obvious person to turn to appears to be German Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Executed by the Nazis in 1945 for his resistance to fascism, Bonhoeffer held radical views about the obligations of a Christian to Christ. For Bonhoeffer, ‘discipleship’ is...

The Case for Trauma-Informed Discipleship

20 Mar 2025

Trauma-informed discipleship: where to start.

To be trauma-informed is to understand any trauma inherently changes every aspect of a person’s development. Trauma will impact how people are able to engage with every aspect of their lives, including how they will ‘live faith out’....

Doing Discipleship ‘Differently’?: Queer Love as Discipleship

11 Mar 2025

This blog acts as food for thought to those Christians (lay or otherwise) who have LGBTQ+ Christians in their midst. I hope that, by sharing some of my thoughts on this, it will become clear that queer love can be a form of Christian discipleship and that this is not something we – as the wider...

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...

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...

Who’s That Guy Shouting At A Fig Tree: Lent 2024

6 Mar 2024

As the Son of God, the fully human, fully divine physical incarnation of the Almighty, Jesus is perfect. But in His perfection, it is sometimes difficult to relate to Jesus - to truly embrace the ‘fully human’ side of the Jesus equation. This is why I love the story of Jesus shouting at a fig...

Meeting Jesus in Psychoanalysis: Lent 2024

27 Feb 2024

Bear one another’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfil the law of Christ

Galatians 6:2

Psychoanalysis is an intensive therapeutic treatment invented by Sigmund Freud (1857-1939), that aims to make unconscious processes conscious.

I started...