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Lessons from Wicked: How standing up 'For Good' can be costly

20 Nov 2025

As someone who can belt every word of Defying Gravity (though my vocals do not compare to that of queer icon and total powerhouse Cynthia Erivo), I have been counting down the days till the release of Wicked: For Good since Wicked: Part One hit cinemas last November. The film...

A via media Pacifism?

10 Nov 2025

From as long as I have been a serious Christian, I have felt that the case for a faithful refusal to use lethal force has all the hallmarks of being “catholic, primitive, and apostolic”[1], and thus grounded in the best traditions of the Universal Church.

Training for Free Church ministry...

Trauma Theology and Pastoral Care

16 Jun 2025

Trauma theology is a lens through which we can understand theology in light of traumatic experiences. It understands the differences between suffering and trauma, and how one can impact the embodied experience of the other. Trauma theology seeks to construct and reimagine theology in the wake of...

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...

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...

Book Review: Lectio Divina by Barbara Birch

10 Mar 2025

This pocket-sized book focuses on giving its readers a clear understanding of the practice of Lectio Devina, its historical use in Quaker practices and how Christian communities have embraced it as a method of exploring scripture in their own context. The author aims to explore how this practice...

Book Review: Simple, Generous, Open by Charlotte Gale

10 Mar 2025

A must-read for anyone with a passion for ministry, Simple, Generous, Open is equal parts memoir and manifesto for change. Charlotte Gale takes readers on a captivating journey, seamlessly weaving together personal stories and powerful reflections on how St Clare’s at the Cathedral, a...

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...

The "Sin" of Empathy and Bishop Budde

11 Feb 2025

It’s the day after Inauguration Day in the United States. Many of Washington’s powerful (and rich) are packed into Washington Cathedral for the National Prayer Service, listening to Bishop Mariann Budde, when she ends her homily by addressing the new President himself. She pleads for mercy for...

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