Movement Magazine | Student Christian Movement

Getting Real

30 Jan 2025

The question of gay and lesbian clergy has caused the Church of England's bishops to entangle themselves in moral and theological knots trying to make the issue go away. Action for Gay and Lesbian Ordination is making sure that it doesn't. Tim Robertson explains why he is involved in AGLO'...

An Interview with Jay Hulme

3 Feb 2024

Firstly, thank you so much for agreeing to chat with us. So, a little warm up question to start - what are you currently reading?

In big nerd energy I'm currently reading St Augustine’s Confessions.

And why did you choose that?

Firstly it...

Faith on Film

3 Feb 2024

I’ve heard people bemoan that there aren’t more good Christian films, or perhaps that Christian films are just no good at all. This will very possibly come from someone who has suffered through God’s Not Dead, amongst my least favourite films I’ve ever seen, or something similar. As you may be...

Three Perspectives on COP26: Liz Marsh

15 Feb 2022

On a chilly November afternoon, I sat in my flat in Edinburgh and watched one of the final plenary sessions of COP26 as the conference prepared to draw to a close. A draft agreement had been reached, and delegates were discussing whether or not it would be passed. One by one delegates...

Three Perspectives on COP26: Laura Young

9 Feb 2022

Progress, but not Justice

The UN climate talks have taken some steps forward, but fallen short of justice for the most vulnerable.

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Movement 163: What Is Vocation?

21 Jan 2021

Our long read article comes from Gill Frigerio, researcher in career development at the University of Warwick. She gives us lots of helpful ways to think about career, calling, and the difficulties of fitting together our work and our faith. Here is a small section of her insightful...

Movement 163: Sustainable Recipes

21 Jan 2021

Our latest campaign focus is food justice, and this term we’re looking at how we can make our food more sustainable. Here, SCM member Patrick reflects on why he decided to make a sustainable swap from dairy milk to oat milk. Head to Issue 163 of Movement for his dairy free...

Movement 163: Interview - Ellen Loudon

21 Jan 2021

Our interview for this issue was with Ellen Loudon, author of 12 Rules for Christian Activism: A Toolkit for Massive Change and Director of Social Justice for Liverpool Diocese. Here’s what she had to say about vocation, our theme for this issue – for the full interview, head to Movement Issue...

Movement 162: Revolutionary Gardening

17 Sep 2020

Barack Obama has a fantastic story that he told during his first presidential campaign. We haven’t the space to tell the whole story but it crescendos with a mantra: if one voice can change a room, then it can change a town, and if it can change a town, it can change a city, and if it can change...

Movement 162: Blackness, Queerness, and the Missio Dei

17 Sep 2020

Like every marginalized group, Black communities and LGBTQIA+ communities have safe spaces. They are spaces of inclusion that foster safety, belonging, and sometimes family. These two groups often experience similar rejection and discrimination but at the same time can fiercely be opposed to...