Beyond Words: A response to the apology at General Synod

Azariah France-Williams, who is currently on placement at St Martin-in-the-Fields preparing for a new mission initiative with HeartEdge, has offered his thoughts on the Church of England General Synod's apology for racism in the church.

In his post for the SCM blog he asks:

'What are the thoughts of the church and its senior members in regard to race and ethnicity - that of themselves, as well as that of others? We are used to words, and I now want to know what the deeds of the church might be?'

Read his post here. His book Ghost Ship: Institutional Racism in the Church of England is published this summer.

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Eric Bibb - Migration Blues. 

Time of Lies

Time of Lies is a darkly comic political thriller by Douglas Board which is also a terrifyingly believable portrait of an alternative Britain.

Douglas has written about the book in a post for the Student Christian Movement which explores why Christians should set to work creating encounters across divides and building a cohesive, empathetic society one year after the divisive Brexit vote.

He ends his post by saying that novels would have been important to Jesus:

'This much we do know: he saw story as central to how we come to understand and share our identities as children of one God, and citizens of a place where the glass walls of class have been transcended.'

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Violent Femmes - Lies.