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SCM Press@scmpress.bsky.social · 2d ago

Read a blog post from the author @cdjtheology.bsky.social here, unpacking the importance of epistemic justice: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/blog/speech-...

Speech and Silence

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Chris Clare Dingwall-Jones (@cdjtheology.bsky.social) has written Sacramental Trans Feminism, the first book to address the gendered aspects of Anglo-Catholicism from the perspective of trans theology and trans studies. 🏳️‍⚧️Order here for 20% off during August: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

SCM Press@scmpress.bsky.social · 2w ago

And don't forget that our Summer Sale continues, with loads of offers on books within theology, biblical studies, interfaith studies, mission and ministry and beyond: bsky.app/profile/scmp...

It's the news you've all been waiting for - the SCM Press Summer Sale is live! Big discounts on a range of titles across all lists: from Mission and Ministry through Biblical Studies to Faith and Society. Take a look: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/features/sum... Also available via Church House Bookshop

Hartness M Samushonga highlights those with two roles in Critical Perspectives on Bivocational Ministry, showing how this complements traditional full-time ministry, enriching the Church’s understanding of vocation, mission and service. 20% off in August: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Critical Perspectives on Bivocational Ministry Practice, Education and Research by Hartness M. Samushonga - Paperback / softback - 9780334061328

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August has arrived, so it's time to introduce two new books out this month, both 20% off RRP:

Sacramental Trans Feminism: Ritualism, Liberation and Trans Rites by Chris Clare Dingwall-Jones
A cover image of four figures, including two on the left wearing clerical vestments, one holding a candle and the one on the right looking shocked. The bottom of the image is the trans flag colours, baby pink, baby blue and white.

The front cover of Critical Perspectives on Bivocational Ministry: Practice, Education and Research by Hartness M Samushonga. There are four head and shoulder figures which are half in one professional outfit (doctor, lawyer, priest etc) and half in normal clothing.

SCM Press@scmpress.bsky.social · 2d ago

Read a blog post from the author @cdjtheology.bsky.social here, unpacking the importance of epistemic justice: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/blog/speech-...

Speech and Silence

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Chris Clare Dingwall-Jones (@cdjtheology.bsky.social) has written Sacramental Trans Feminism, the first book to address the gendered aspects of Anglo-Catholicism from the perspective of trans theology and trans studies. 🏳️‍⚧️Order here for 20% off during August: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Chris Clare DJ @cdjtheology.bsky.social · 5d ago

August has arrived, so it's time to introduce two new books out this month, both 20% off RRP:

It is theologically crucial that we pay attention to who can speak, who can't speak, and what that says about our commitments. scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/blog/speech-...

I am convinced that we cannot speak well about gender and sexuality in the Church, and that the Church cannot respond with a prophetic and Christian voice to the increasingly damaging national discourse about trans people, until we recognize epistemic injustice for what it is – an aspect of the fallen condition of humanity that the Church is duty bound to set its face against. When beloved children of God face both interpersonal and institutional violence while being denied the ability to meaningfully participate in society and Church, the Church remains complicit in violence and exclusion.

Christopher West @christophernwest.bsky.social · 5d ago

Selina Stone’s recent book on spiritual abuse, A Heavy Yoke (SCM Press, 2025), provides an especially helpful lens through which the evidential assumptions embedded in safeguarding procedures become easier to recognise. It should be required reading.

SCM Press@scmpress.bsky.social · 2mo ago

For Nothing is Hidden and Ending Abusive Theologies are now both available as ebooks: from our website/all usual ebook retailers @revdwillrm.bsky.social @alexianafry.bsky.social @karenod.bsky.social @drkatiecross.bsky.social @cdjtheology.bsky.social @msamrc.bsky.social @jayhulmepoet.bsky.social

June brings these two wonderful new books out into the world: a second title in our Studies in Trauma Theology series (For Nothing is Hidden) and a new title from Adrian Thatcher in response to hurt and safeguarding failures in the church...

The front cover of For Nothing is Hidden: Masculinities and Trauma in Church and Theology
Edited by Will Rose-Moore
The cover shows a curved gap between rocks at the mouth of a cave with light shining through.

SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 5d ago

Today is the last day for 20% off @grahamadams.bsky.social's latest book and Come and See: The Call and Challenge of Cultural Witness. Check out the links in the quoted posts for more details.

SCM Press@scmpress.bsky.social · last mo.

Welcome to July - would you like some new books? Good news! We have them, and they're 20% off all month:

The front cover of Graham Adams' new book, The Anarchic Spirit, in multicoloured text. The subtitle below it is Interpreting the Bible and the World in troubled times

SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 5d ago

The author of Sacramental Trans Feminism (out next month - with 20% throughout August) @cdjtheology.bsky.social has written a blog (see quoted post below) on scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

The front cover of Sacramental Trans Feminism: Ritualism, Liberation and Trans Rites by Chris Clare Dingwall-Jones, published by SCM Press. The cover shows a black-and-white Victorian cartoon with two individuals in High Church Anglo-Catholic clerical vestments on the left, a smaller person in a dress carrying a candle and a man on the right looking dismayed at this. The bottom of the image has the colours of the trans flag: baby blue, baby pink and white.

Chris Clare DJ@cdjtheology.bsky.social · 5d ago

Anyway, here's a discussion of epistemic injustice, the visceral experience of being silenced, and why these are deeply theological issues: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/blog/speech-...

Prof David Tombs @david-tombs.bsky.social · 6d ago

Today the library received its copy of the eagerly awaited ‘For Nothing is Hidden’ edited by Will Rose-Moore. So pleased to have a chapter in it on punitive stripping as an abuse. Many thanks to @revdwillrm.bsky.social and the great folk at @scmpress.bsky.social

SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 3w ago

NEW on the SCM Press blog: Graham Tomlin considers the meaning of being a witness. scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/blog/helping...

Northern Lights with streaks of red and orange through green
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SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 6d ago

It's the news you've all been waiting for - the SCM Press Summer Sale is live! Big discounts on a range of titles across all lists: from Mission and Ministry through Biblical Studies to Faith and Society. Take a look: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/features/sum... Also available via Church House Bookshop

Summer Sale

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Reviewed in the July edition of Crucible, "well-researched" Vile Bodies: "Thatcher emphasises that Christians who do not reckon with Christianity’s socio-cultural assumptions about purity will neglect how their theologies perpetuate harmful cultures of abuse" scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Vile Bodies The Body in Christian Teaching, Faith and Practice by Adrian Thatcher - Paperback / softback - 9780334063605

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SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · 3w ago

The upcoming launch event for Adrian Thatcher's latest book will be online on 5th August, featuring @andrewgraystone.bsky.social and @scornpops.bsky.social Details here via @modernchurch.bsky.social: modernchurch.org.uk/events/endin...

Graham Kings@grahamkings.bsky.social · last wk.

Still available today! scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Go-Between God New edition by John V. Taylor, Jonny Baker - Paperback / softback - 9780334060147

Buy Go-Between God New edition by John V. Taylor, Jonny Baker Paperback / softback from SCM Press - ISBN: 9780334060147

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My favourite modern description of #Jesus, from John V Taylor’s ‘Go-between God’ (SCM, 1972) - copied out in the late 1970s.

Jenny Leith asks 'What might it mean us to be formed as disciples not only by the church but also by the world?' Political Formation, only £6 here: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Political Formation Being Formed by the Spirit in Church and World by Jenny Leith - Paperback / softback - 9780334063032

Buy Political Formation Being Formed by the Spirit in Church and World by Jenny Leith Paperback / softback from SCM Press - ISBN: 9780334063032

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A review on the @inclusivechurch.bsky.social website describes Praying by the Rules as "ultimately a hopeful work", "engaging" and "an important and thoughtful contribution to the growing conversation around autism and Christianity". Check it out here: www.inclusive-church.org/2026/07/09/p...

The front cover of Praying by the Rules: What Autistic People Teach the Church about Prayer by Helena Cundill, with an alarm clock on the right.

SCM Press@scmpress.bsky.social · 2w ago

Have you checked out what's in the sale yet? Includes these books and more: @msamrc.bsky.social @benmfulford.bsky.social

The Bible and Disability A Commentary, edited by Sarah Melcher, Mikeal C Parsons and Amos Yong

A Redemption Song: Illuminations on Black British Pastoral Theology and Culture by Delroy Hall

A Liberation for the Earth: Climate, Race and Cross by A.M. Ranawana

God's Patience and Our Work: Hans Frei, Generous Orthodoxy and the Ethics of Hope by Ben Fulford

It's the news you've all been waiting for - the SCM Press Summer Sale is live! Big discounts on a range of titles across all lists: from Mission and Ministry through Biblical Studies to Faith and Society. Take a look: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/features/sum... Also available via Church House Bookshop

SCM Press@scmpress.bsky.social · 2w ago

Must end today!

There has been discussion over the influence of Catholic Social Teaching on new PM Andy Burnham. If you would like to know more about CST, we're giving 30% off Simon Cuff's accessible introduction until 27th July. Add to your basket & use the code 'ANDY2026': scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Titles in the sale include: Losing Ground: Reading Ruth in the Pacific by Jione Havea Only £10 scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Losing Ground Reading Ruth in the Pacific by Jione Havea - Paperback / softback - 9780334059837

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SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · last mo.

A theology of the emerging church is explored by Hannah Steele in New World New Church? Only £9 scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

New World, New Church? The theology of the emerging church movement by Hannah Steele - Paperback - 9780334054900

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NEW on the SCM Press blog: Graham Adams writes about discerning the spirit(s) in the stories that shape us scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/blog/discern... @grahamadams.bsky.social

SCM Press@scmpress.bsky.social · last mo.

.@grahamadams.bsky.social's third book addresses contemporary concerns, offering a hermeneutic of creative disruption and discerning signs of the Anarchic Spirit who destabilizes rigid boundaries and disrupts dominant power dynamics. 20% off during July here: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

"Embodying the creative anarchist tradition of Christian thought, this book helps us to face dominating power and refuse it permanence. It disobeys the fatalism such spirits seek to induce, invoking instead a Spirit able to handle the messiness of identities, hopes and texts - and to treat the diseases that threaten life itself." An endorsement quote from Anna Rowlands, St Hilda Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Practice at Durham University

SCM Press @scmpress.bsky.social · last mo.

Theologians, ethicists, philosophers, artists & media experts explore facets of what it means to be a witness to Christ in Come and See. Contributions from Hannah Steele, Andrew Davison, Carmody Grey, Graham Tomlin and a foreword by NT Wright. Only £32 here: scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Come and See The Call and Challenge of Cultural Witness by Oliver Wright, Graham Tomlin, N.T. Wright - Paperback / softback - 9780334066903

Buy Come and See The Call and Challenge of Cultural Witness by Oliver Wright, Graham Tomlin, N.T. Wright Paperback / softback from SCM Press - ISBN: 9780334066903

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Graham Kings@grahamkings.bsky.social · last wk.

Still available today! scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Go-Between God New edition by John V. Taylor, Jonny Baker - Paperback / softback - 9780334060147

Buy Go-Between God New edition by John V. Taylor, Jonny Baker Paperback / softback from SCM Press - ISBN: 9780334060147

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My favourite modern description of #Jesus, from John V Taylor’s ‘Go-between God’ (SCM, 1972) - copied out in the late 1970s.

Currently £8 in the sale: Motherhood and Autism by Eilidh Campbell scmpress.hymnsam.co.uk/books/978033...

Motherhood and Autism An Embodied Theology of Motherhood and Disability by Eilidh Campbell - Paperback / softback - 9780334061502

Buy Motherhood and Autism An Embodied Theology of Motherhood and Disability by Eilidh Campbell Paperback / softback from SCM Press - ISBN: 9780334061502

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