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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Imagine if 9-5 jobs came with injury time. As if it’s so likely you’d get injured at work they plan for how you make up the time. #Euros

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Today’s session about Honest Church prompted us to think deeply about trans* experience. The loveliness of the setting and the weather stands in such contrast to the pain inflicted on these precious children of God. Which only brings the absurdity of rejection and cruelty into sharper focus.

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Arrived on Holy Island for a Community of the Cross of Nails retreat. Not here for birdwatching, honest. But the weather is SO nice and the birdsong is incredible!

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Rachel Mann @revrachelmann.bsky.social · 09/05/2025

Please consider signing up for this amazing creative writing workshop (!) by the frabjous @clareshawpoet.bsky.social … in support of the #trans community and @goodlawproject.org in particular… honoured that the title is taken from one of my poems. #poetry #writing #literature

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

Donald Trump is no longer the most powerful American in the world... #LeoXIV

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

It was really hard to get a good picture but the Coventry Trans* rights protest was an intense and thoughtful experience with some brilliant speakers.

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Greens Organise @greensorganise.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

In this toxic culture war, so many people are looking for hope. We want the Green Party to solidly be leading that fight. #transwomenarewomen #transrightsarehumanrights #greenparty

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Barista: what name? Me: Naomi Barista: (corrects me) Niomi… how do you spell that

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WATCH @watch-notequalyet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

@katemassey77 'Women are not another minority in @churchofengland, we are a majority. And female clergy don't just face unconscious bias but legal discrimination' www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Dxw... Come to #NotEqualYet conference & help bring this to an end www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/not-equal-....

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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

We've not one, but two new blog reviews up on the website! See if you recognise one of the authors 😉 Head to movement.org.uk/blog to check out our members' reviews of Lectio Divina by Barbara Birch, and Simple, Generous, Open, by Charlotte Gale ➡️

Book Review: Simple, Generous, Open. Mission and renewal in the progressive church by Charlotte Gale.

Book review: Lectio Divina, revelation and prophecy by Barbara Birch

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

A beautiful day to be in Oxford. I’ve been on a panel talking about the discrimination that women in ministry still experience and it’s intersection with LGBTQ+ affirmation. What if one day we didn’t have anything left to say and could just enjoy the sunshine? #NotEqualYet #IWD

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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Did you know a big part of SCM's work is supporting student-led communities across the country?! Well, now you do, and you're about to get to know them better! 😍 Welcome to the first "Spotlight on...", featuring the lovely @SCMExeter! ✨

Spotlight on... SCM Exeter! A photo of SCM Exeter at their Christmas meal.

I'm Indigo, president of SCM Exeter. SCM Exeter started as a student discussion group with a couple of chaplains in 2018. This morphed into a group which become affilatied with SCM in 2020, and has become more and more student-led. We meet at the Multifaith Chaplaincy Centre on Exeter's Streatham Campus at 7pm on Wednesdays!

We are focused on creating discussion and and a social space of like-minded people from a range of faiths and backgrounds. We do all sorts, but usually a meeting will be based on a theme, sometimes religious (e.g Christianity in the South West, liberation theology), sometimes political (e.g reproductive rights, pacifism), sometimes more generally interrogating aspects of life (e.g faith’s relationship to education or neurodiversity). We also do more communal show-and-tell style sessions, have film nights and socials, or invite guests who relate to our interests or can teach us about other traditions and faiths. We recently had the uni’s Quaker chaplain join us for a session, and in a few weeks the Buddhists are joining us to talk about their faith and interfaith relations.

Our favourite ice breaker is debating the relative merits of different biscuits, and if you joined us in-person we’d likely be having pizza! A favourite session from last year was called ‘They Were Roommates’! Run by ex-president Vic, the session covered the development of queer rights within the Church and the fight for equal marriage. It was simultaneously heavy and inspiring! My favourite thing about SCM Exeter is that it really feels like a friendship group and a safe space; both profound and profoundly silly.

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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

🏳️‍⚧️The Trans* Theology Group are looking for your help!🏳️‍⚧️ For Trans* Day of Visibility 2025, the Trans* Theology Group are looking for participants to help them in making a short video to recognise the joy in being trans* and Christian. Want to know more? Swipe to find out!

A light pink background with dark pink text. The text reads 'Trans* Day of Visibility 2025'. There is a drawing of a person holding a sign that says 'visibility and joy'. The person has a headband on and a scarf on which are both in the pattern of the transgender pride flag.

For Trans* Day of Visibility, the wonderful Trans* Theology Group are looking for trans*, non-binary, and genderqueer Christians to create a short video focused on the joy of being trans*. With a variety of ways to get involved, we hope to hear from as many people as possible!

Interested in getting involved?

On A4 paper, write a short answer to the question ‘what gives you trans* joy?’. You can leave this anonymous, or share some brief identifiers with you answer. For example; Soph, she/they, PhD Student.

Take a short 5 second video of the paper. You can be holding it, or you can place it somewhere in your home or outside to film it. Just make sure it is filmed in portrait!

Finally, email your clip to transtheologygroup@movement.org.uk by 20th March and let them know that you’re happy with your clip to be shared across SCM’s social media pages.

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

It is not about learning to live with different points of view, it is about real human beings who are being daily hurt by the church. When this process started it was with an apology to LGBTQ+ people, where has that compassion gone? #synod

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’m curious about whether progressive folk are contributing to the CNC call for input on the +ABC. Is it something we can make a difference with?

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

When late to a doodle poll the pressure to pick the most popular date is very strong.

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

I never met Geoffrey Tattersall, but I feel such sadness at his death. Watching the llf debates online the SCM staff came to adore him, a good and faithful servant with a beautiful lightness of touch which never undermined the seriousness of the debates. May he rest in peace and rise in glory.

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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy New Year!! Heres to creating community, celebrating diversity, deepening faith, and seeking justice in 2025 🎉 Catch up with our New Year Letter: buff.ly/3VShJMB 🌈

A new year letter from the Student Christian Movement

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Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

“Every night without fail, a mobile phone rings in the Holy Family church in Gaza, and a parish priest answers. The voice at the end of the line is that of Pope Francis”. www.ft.com/content/03ea...

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Christians huddled in Gaza speak to the Pope every night

Nightly calls from pontiff comfort Palestinians sheltering in churches for a second Christmas

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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

A gift for Christmas Eve from a member St Clare’s. #cofepeeps #narthex

Image of a winter scene with a woman walking towards houses and a star with the following poem.

The Magi’s Blessing

When the journey nears its close
But your feet fail
When the night bites fast and cold
When your head hangs too heavy
To lift and see the star

May those little lights spilling out
Over thresholds and onto street
Fill your downturned gaze
May they light the path before you
Paint it with gold
While meals to gather friends together
Fill the air with fragrant incense
Flying high to heaven
May kind words like anointing oil flow forth
As a blessing on your brow
And may joyful voices wrap you warmly
Even as they lead you home

A. Clarke

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I bought a ruinously expensive new tree stand. It is miraculous. About 5 seconds to put the tree up. (Krinner in case you were wondering)

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John White @jcwhite.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

There is something pretty sickening about MPs receiving a report highlighting medical misogyny on the same day as the Health Secretary chooses to reinforce medical transphobia.

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SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

NEW on the SCM blog: Tim Judson on why 'Ethics' by Bonhoeffer matters, as we publish a new edition this month with a foreword by Sam Wells scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/blog/why-thi...

Extract of the front cover of 'Ethics' by Dietrich Bonhoeffer, repackaged edition published by SCM Press in December 2024

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The contents ‘page’ of my thesis is now three full pages. What made this internal processor with a bad over summarising habit think a phd would be a lark it remains hard to know. Actually nearly there though!

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

This is so important. In my years of working with clergy I saw them flogging themselves to deliver growth, yet when invited to talk about church decline without fear, they leaned in, creative and excited, as if it was the truth of their calling. thisestate.blogspot.com/2024/12/why-...

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Why we need an anti-growth coalition in the Church of England

I'm delighted to host this guest post from Revd Angela Sheard. Angela and I had a conversation a few weeks ago in which we discovered we had...

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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

For our Christmas Appeal this year we're raising money for Movement Magazine, our amazing student-led magazine that comes out twice a year. We are so proud of it, but we need your help to keep it going! 🎁 Find out more and donate: buff.ly/3ZcKiFx

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jacob owen ✞ 🇵🇸 ☭ @andwiththyspirit.substack.com · 30/11/2024

humans can build beautiful things. we should do it more often.

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

St Clare’s gazing card sighting in the wild!

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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"The results of this month's US elections left many of us feeling anxious, concerned, and despondent. I want to present three ways that we can respond in our own contexts." Read William's blog over at buff.ly/3VgjBOT

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Never has anyone been more proud of their napkin purchasing than me right now #booklaunch

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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Theology students & book lovers. We have a large range of high quality secondhand theology books for sale at St Clare’s, all priced much lower than Amazon. Spread the word 😊 #books #theology #cofe stclaresatthecathedral.org/product/qual...

Picture showing a selection of book covers, part of the collection of books for sale at St Clare’s.

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Charlotte Gale @revcharlottegale.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Lots of people talking about their books, so I thought I’d mention mine 😊. If you want to read about a story of mission in the progressive church, it’s currently available on Eden for £12.02 with free delivery #cofepeeps www.eden.co.uk/christian-bo...

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Simple, Generous, Open: Free Delivery at Eden.co.uk

Simple, Generous, Open: Charlotte Gale (9781786226259): Free Delivery at Eden.co.uk

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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Get ready for our #DisabilityHistoryMonth x Honest Church pop-up! As well as toolkits to help communities consider their welcome for disabled people, we’ll be sharing stories from our disabled members, & resources to help you explore disability theology. Find out more at buff.ly/4hZ3NtE 📚

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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We have exciting plans this #DisabilityHistoryMonth: watch this space! One thing we're still after is stories of disability inclusion done badly or well in church spaces - maybe a church said they were accessible but don't have a wheelchair accessible toilet, maybe it was something to do with

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Student Christian Movement @scmbritain.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

🏳️‍⚧️The Little Book of Trans Theology, Affirmation, and Joy is now available on our website!✨ Full of resources to support you in creating an affirming space, questions to help with reflection, and shared experiences. Head to buff.ly/4aQm8FO or the link in our bio to access it! 📖

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I genuinely just had an excited feeling because we are going to Costco later

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Does anyone else get a bit giddy emailing clergy you’ve long admired and now have totally ordinary reasons to be in contact with?

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

The bake off gâteux are giving me life.

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Naomi Nixon @scm-britain-ceo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

Another day another new social media account. So far my feed is mostly cats. Not really a cat person but not fundamentally opposed…

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