Resource type: Theology and Stories
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The Little Resource of Disability Theology
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Disability Theology is a growing area of theology which is seeking to understand the relationship between the experiences of disability and faith. It opens up interpretations of scripture through the lens and understanding of disability, utilising both contemporary and historical experiences and perspectives. Disability Theology is a broad term which also includes many different theologies,…
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The Little Book of Trans Theology, Affirmation, and Joy
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Trans* Theology is theology that is created by and for trans people. Trans* Theology covers a variety of aspects of understanding faith, including interpretation of scripture, affirmation, and authentic self-expression. Theology is explored through the contemporary and historical lenses of the experiences of Trans* folks. Trans* Theology includes a wide variety of perspectives, experiences, and…
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The SCM Theological Reflection Journal
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Theological Reflection plays a vital role in SCM’s commitment to putting faith into action. This printable journaling workbook guides you through exercises to meaningfully engage with the world around you by reflecting on your experiences through the lens of your faith. Maybe you… Want to take action for social justice but don’t know where to start…
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Peace Theology 101 & the Witness of the Peace Churches
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Christian peace theology is founded upon the premise that if Jesus is who the church has traditionally proclaimed him to be: the Word made flesh, God incarnate, then the example of his life and teachings reveals the true nature of God and serves as a pattern for Christian life and ethics. The way of Jesus…
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Faith in Action Stories: Nonviolent Resistance & Witness
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“The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly”. Hard words indeed, but any harder than the Bible itself?…
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Called to Be… Vocations Resource
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At SCM, we believe that students have the potential to make a real difference to our society, and are called to work together with hope for a better world. This calling will look different for each of us, and might not always end up how we imagined it to look. We’ve collected stories from people living out…
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Feminist and Queer Approaches to Scripture
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It is the opinion of most feminist theologians that the church has, historically, marginalised and silenced women, and that it has employed well-recognised techniques for doing do. One of the ways in which this has happened has been through the systematic writing out of women from scripture and history – that is to say they…
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Ideological and Subversive Interpretation
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I was raised to read the Bible spiritually. Spiritual readings encouraged believers to find correspondence between the world of the Bible and their own personal piety or spiritual needs. But spiritual interpretation, while personally satisfying, was socially inadequate: we were not encouraged to find connections between the social and political hostility we faced as black…
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Picking and Choosing
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When I was a student, I found myself in a Bible study group led by someone who was on the committee of my university Christian Union. The subject was the authority of scripture. The verse we had got to was 2 Timothy 3:16 (‘All scripture is Godbreathed’). The question was, ‘How would you use this…
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Monotheism
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If you don’t buy into fundamentalism, what’s so special about the Bible? After all it’s a diverse collection of ancient texts, many of which are incomprehensible, irrelevant, factually wrong or morally repugnant. So what does the Bible say which (a) is different, and (b) matters so much as to be the basis for a religious…