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O o Student Christian Movement SGM is a movement seeking to bring together students of all denominations to explore the Christian faith in an open-minded and nonjudgemental environment. Editorial and Design.' Wood lngham Proofreading SCM Staff, BeclE Lowe Cover photo: A TuNc Nevi woman from Sanliurfa, in a mainly Kurdish area of southeast Turkey @ Ilker Gurer Next copy date: 13th Feb 2009 SGM staff National Co-ordinator Hilary Topp; Links Worker Rosrb Venner; Adminislalot Matt Gardner SGM office; 308FThe Big Peg, 120 Vyse Street, The Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham 818 6ND . 0121 2OO 3355 . scm@movement.org.uk . www.movement.org.uk Printed by: Henry Ling Limited, Dorchaster lndividual membership of SCM (i ncl u di ng Movement/ costs t1 5 per year Subscription to Movement only costs 812 peryear Disclaimer.' The views expressed rn Movement are those of the particular authors and should not be taken to be the policy of the Student Chistian Movement. Movement rc a member of lNK, the lndependent News Collective, trade association of the UK altemative press. ink.uk.com tssN o306-980x Gharity number 1125640 @ 20ro scM Do you have prcblems reading Movement? lf you find it hard to read the printed version of Movement, we can send it to you in digital form. C o ntact ed ito t@ m ove me nt. o rg. u k. The SGM website is available in a text-only form at accessibte.movement.org.uk nuhib Jws is savingll'm s@lding aI my daw..-' Movement Magazine of the Student Christian Movement lssue 134 / Spring 2O1O Movement Editorial 3 The Gommunity lssue Movement Interview 4 Talking about the Ark Jonathan Spoor talks to Jean Vanier, founder of LArche. Movement Feature: The Hope lssue 7 Reimagining community for a new century Simon Barrow of Ekklesia sets out the manifesto. 11 The problem with the tourists How would you feel if your home suddenly became a public rightof-way? Karen Chalk has seen it happen. 12 Voices from the Cem Evi llker Gurer's photographs of the Alevi people of Turkey. 15 Awounded body Has the church failed as a community? By Jessica Rose 18 Think of the children The plight of the children of prisoners, by Oliver Robertson. 20 On the farm Ceri Owen's experiences among the Catholic Workers. 22 Finding community Susannah Rudge on the Jesuit Volunteer Communities. Movement Golumns 23 Listen to Ghristopher: Worth doing Christopher Carney wants you to be happy. 24 Ten propositions on prayer Kim Fabricius knows it's a conversation. 24 Dorky Bird: Neighbours Becky Lowe ponders finding community where we are. 26 We fought the law: Musical The first in a new series of columns from Symon Hill. Movement Fiction 27 They'll Have Teacups Part 1. By Chelsie Bryant. Movement Departments 29 Reviews Why Animal Suffering Matters o What is the Bible? . Holding On and Letting Go 31 The Spengler report It's all a load of Papal Bull.
The Gommunity lssue We all have to live with each other. Like the man said, no one is an island. But how does that work? Where do we find our community? ln faith communities? ln ethnic groups? ln deliberate, intentional communities that come together for a purpose? ln this issue, we're looking at community from as many different angles as we can fit in. On friendship I suppose I'm one of those people whose community is formed around friends. When you're a teenager, you believe that your friendships will endure forever, that they will never change. lntro They change. And sometimes you find that they've changed so much that allyou have is history. History binds and holds together bonds that should otherwise have fallen apart. lt has to be the right kind of history. True, it can do nothing more that remind you of painful experiences, but history can also cover a multitude of sins. You meet new people all the time. The pace of meeting new people slows as you get older, but you do meet them. Sometimes, they're people you can trust and you form these new friendships, get new history. There are people I haven't known so long who I count as very close friends, because we already have history. I find myself thinking about this kind of thing at this time of year because I write on the third anniversary of the day on which we heard that SCMer and friend Mike Blakey had died, suddenly, far away. I think a lot about how these things we say and do touch each other's lives and shape them and mould them, and how valuable are the relationships we have with those we share this common history with, this common story of our lives. And how suddenly it can be ended, how quickly it can all be taken away. Symon says It's lovely to have Symon Hill, an old friend of SCM and Movement, begin his new column with us. Once, a long time ago, an employee of SCM, Symon is perhaps best known now for being the face of the campaigning organisations who took the British Government to court over their handling of the BAE Systems/Saudi Princes scandal. He's now an associate director of Ekklesia and works as a trainer and consultant. We're looking forward to seeing more from him. Pope Benedict lends a hand So. That business with the pope offering refuge to disgruntled Anglicans. ls he poaching the faithful or generously offering to take the CofE's homophobes and misogynists off our favourite Archdruid's hands? We don't know. We think Gartield Spengler has an idea, in the first of a new series of Spengler Reports, freshly thrown through the window of the SCM office, tied to a breezeblock. Which is no mean feat, given that the SCM office is on the third floor. But frankly, it's hard to tell. See what you think. Wood 3
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