Dangerous Stories -‘a complex course for complex times and a complex faith’

We just received a wonderful review of Dangerous Stories, Church Action on Poverty’ series of Bible studies on Jesus’ parables.

For richer, for poorer

Revd Dr David Primrose (Director of Transforming Communities in the Diocese of Lichfield and a trustee of Church Action on Poverty) reflects on a fruitful and courageous partnership.

Run to unlock poverty!

Church Action on Poverty is looking for people to join our team in the Great Manchester Run on 19 May 2019. Challenge yourself, get fit, and raise funds to help loosen the grip of UK poverty!

Church Action on Poverty in the North East: offering hope to communities?

On Church Action on Poverty Sunday (3 March 2019), our local group in the North East questioned local mayoral candidates about their plans to loosen the grip of poverty in the region. Group member Tony Wood shared this report with us.

Sweet Charity?

Details of the 2019 David Goodbourn Lecture, organised by the Centre for Theology and Justice.

Transforming poverty through the silver screen

We’re pleased to share this article from Lichfield Diocese about Transforming Poverty, a new course which we published in February 2019.

Some notes on class, relevance and the Church

Lynne Cullens shares some in-depth reflections on being a vicar from a working-class background, and the church’s problems with class.

Lynne Cullens

The following has been adapted from a series of speaker’s notes I’ve put together and delivered in various forms.  It is not meant to be any form of expert view or academic piece, merely a collection of thoughts from my own experience which some have apparently found helpful. 

Ordsall, in the late 1960’s during slum clearance (Manchester Evening News)

I’m a parish priest in the Anglican Church and I’m going to dive straight in with a story showing why, I believe, class is such an issue for us in terms of Church of England culture.

A couple of years ago I was in a women’s regional church leadership meeting.  One of the female clergy there relayed the true account of a phone call she had recently received from a young woman who’d called her to ask if she could discuss a strong call to ordination she was feeling.   When she…

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Has the Church Abandoned the Poor?

Some interesting thoughts on class, poverty and the Church of England here, in a blog by Adam Spiers, a campaigner and supporter of Church Action on Poverty.

The truth about poverty?

Last year, we took members of several Poverty Truth Commissions to the Greenbelt festival for the first time. It was an exciting and inspiring experience – especially the opportunity for us to reflect together with Clare McBeath, our friend from the Centre for Theology and Justice. Clare collated and shared these theological reflections on the experience of being part of Poverty Truth Commissions.

Longing to belong

A creative project in Manchester is exploring the links between social justice and the arts, supported by the Centre for Theology and Justice.