Movement 123

living life to the tull?
editorial
Life in all its fullness, SCM's theme for this academic year, has certainly guaranteed a
full life for all the students and staff. We've been busy with all kinds of resources and
actions exploring different aspects of the theme, and the special feature in this issue of
movement is just a small taster of a few of them.
lf you'd like to see some of the reflections, worship materials, workshops and Bible studies
we've produced on the theme, check out www.movement.org.uk/life. We've also
had a fantastic conference, which is reviewed on page 4 and has its own section of the
website at www. movement.org. u k/conference.
When we chose the theme, we wanted to look at every aspect of life, think aboutwhat really
makes it worth living or prevents it being lived to the full, and challenge some common preconceptions
in church and society about fullness of life. What are healing and wholeness?
What does our theology say about disability and mental illness? What
kind of spiritual practices contribute to a full life? And what about our
responsibility for the lives of others, and our place in our community?
The articles on pages 14-19look at a few of these things. Elizabeth
Baxter's piece challenges SCM and the wider church to be a genuinely
therapeutic community; Grant White introduces an Eastern Orthodox
vision of life in all its fullness; and Andrew Scott looks towards
a theology that can respond effectively to the HIV pandemic which
denies millions the chance to live a full life. HIV campaigning has
been SCM's main social action this year - find out how you can get
involved on page 7.
Elsewhere in this issue, we have an interview with Peter Owen Jones,
the vicar who strode around in an lndiana Jones hat on BBC2 making
church history sexy. And, sadly, we have the final instalment (for now)
of Gordon Lynch's excellent pop culture review column. l'd like to
thank Cordon for all his contributions to movement; l'm sure many
movement readers will continue to follow his exciting work. I
movement
movement is the termly magazine of the Student Christian
Movement, dedicated to an open-minded exploration of
Chrisfianity.
Editor: Liam Purcell (editor@movement.org.uk)
Next copy date: 14 July 2006
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contents
editorial
newsfile
on campus
campaigns
diary
small ritual steve collins
interview: peter owen jones
julian lewis
mind the gap
movement feature: life in all its fullness
church as therapeutic community
elizabeth baxter 14
the AIDS christ andrew scott 16
embodied renunciation grant white 1B
platform: tent people john probhudan
ties and binds/m cotter
worldview: mozaik
peter sajda & rebecca blocksome
investing ethically richard nagle
atlantis and me wood ingham
doctrine for dummies:
negative theology rob telford
media section
the miracle of jesus (robert brunger)
susannah rudge 26
caring for creation (sarah tillett)
rosie telford 27
pop culture review gordon lynch 28
jerry springer the opera tim cobbett 29
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a touching place (john gunstone)
jo merrygold 30
serpent 31
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