Faith in Action

Top Tips for your first protest: Practical advice for showing up, speaking out & staying safe.

24 Sep 2025

If you’re thinking about attending your first protest and wondering what to expect or how to prepare, I’ve put together some practical tips to help you feel more confident and ready to take part. 

Tips for your first protest.  

1. Know your rights and...

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My First Protest: Reflections from the Front Line at the DSEI Arms Fair

24 Sep 2025

Before I started my role as Faith in Action Project Worker, I wasn’t someone who regularly attended large-scale, public demonstrations. This is for several reasons, but predominantly because the thought of attending such events felt overwhelming and intimidating. 

So, I never could have...

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Radicalised by Being Alive

2 Jul 2025

As my time at SCM is coming to an end, I’ve been reflecting a lot on how I came to this role as a Faith in Action Project Worker and why. I have come to realise that I haven’t shaped my own activism through research and knowledge; my life experiences have shaped my activism. I am from a large,...

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God is Just: A sermon for the Third Sunday of Epiphany

27 Jan 2025

A transcript of the sermon given by Revd Naomi Nixon, SCM's CEO, at St Mark's Church Leamington Spa on 26th January 2025.

Readings: Matthew 25 31-46, and Luke 1 46-55

When Marcella first asked me to speak this evening it was a hasty doorstep conversation,...

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Voting: A Brief History of Theology and Democracy

11 Jun 2024

            Democracy is a concept that many of us take for granted, especially those of us who live in the West. Each year the Economist releases their democracy index that provides a full report on the state of democracy...

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Subsidiarity and Local Politics

4 Jun 2024

In last week’s Christian Political Action podcast I spoke to Revd Luke Larner about his experience as a priest in the Church of England, practical theology, trade unions, and more. While speaking to Luke about his work in the Church as a priest,...

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A Quick Guide to the General Election

28 May 2024

On Wednesday the 22nd of May Prime Minister Rishi Sunak made an announcement that the next UK general election will be taking place on the 4th of July 2024. This was unexpected for many and welcomed by many more. We have just under six weeks until the electorate will be able to vote for the...

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Introduction to Political Theology

21 May 2024

Welcome to the new series from SCM, Christian Political Action. This is a series of podcasts, blogs and resources designed to equip you with the tools you need to discern what it means to be a politically active and engaged Christian. The series will explore everything from democracy to...

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Bonhoeffer and Human Rights

16 Jan 2024

When we consider the place of Christian faith and human rights, one person of particular relevance is Dietrich Bonhoeffer. For those of you who don’t know who Bonhoeffer was, he was a pastor and theologian who was part of the Confessing Church in Nazi Germany and who eventually became involved...

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Mourning Rosebank

27 Sep 2023

"This is my Father's world

May we tend her gentle life

Her seas are filled with the oil we spilled

Her skies growing warm in their plight

This is our Father's world

He has fashioned us a home

And lest our crib become our grave

This world is not...

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