Category - scm

Churches need to face the challenge of change

Press Office — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 08:40:07 +0000

From an interview in the latest issue of SCM's 'Movement' magazine with Ekklesia co-director Simon Barrow, examining the challenge to the churches of post-Christendom, the current era in which thei

Student leaders and Christian Unions produce joint guidelines to end disputes

staff writers — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 17:37:37 +0100

The National Union of Students (NUS) and the Universities and Colleges Christian Fellowship (UCCF) today launched joint guidance to help students' unions and Christian unions manage good local relationships. The guidance comes after tensions between these groups in 2006.

Churches pledge continued support to Zimbabwe

staff writers — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 00:00:51 +0000

Christian student representatives and Mennonite and Bretheren churches are among those expressing solidarity following this week's arrests and repression by the Mugabe regime

Students explore use and abuse of the Bible

staff writers — Sun, 11 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Students from across the UK will gather together this coming weekend at the Student Christian Movement's annual conference to explore the theme of Reading the Bible - against a backdrop where there is increasing public concern aout the way religious texts are often abused by extreme and fundamentalist movements.

SCM joins calls for mediation not legal action in Christian Union student row

staff writers — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 16:34:26 +0000

The Student Christian Movement, a long-established organisation on university and college campuses across the UK, has joined calls for a positive, mediatory approach to disagreements between evangelical Christian Unions and Students Unions.