But too often, when we read scripture in our churches, we focus on other aspects of the story, or we are so familiar with the text that we don’t notice the challenging things it has to say to us.
Scripture from the Margins is a series of Bible studies that encourage people to focus on the voices and perspectives in scripture that we don’t usually hear in our churches.
They can be used for individual reflection, or in house groups and Bible study groups. They make great Lent programmes.
I wanted to thank you for putting together such an excellent course – accessible, opinionated, challenging, affirming and easy to lead and to build on.
So many courses are dull and simplistic – yours opened up new vistas. There was never a sense of being forced into a right answer or finding an easy solution. It was a complex course for complex times and a complex faith.
(Revd Richard Lamey, Rector of St Paul at Wokingham in the Diocese of Oxford)
We have also produced a bookmark for your Bible, with questions to help you find perspectives from the margins whenever you are reading scripture.
Click on the links to the right to download the materials.
Bob Rae from Sheffield Church Action on Poverty reports on their 2026 Urban Poverty Pilgrimage Supporters of Church Action on Poverty from Sheffield have visited a series of initiatives designed to alleviate poverty in the Highfield and Heeley districts of
Group members, friends and guests at the Passing On The Torch event Friends, supporters and members, past and present, gathered at St Joseph’s in Gateshead as Church Action on Poverty North East (CAPNE) celebrated 38 years of work challenging poverty
Geoff Moore looks at food, faith and fellowship, and how his church (and others) can encourage two-way hospitality. Geoff delivered this sermon at St Brandon’s in Brancepeth, near Durham, on Church Action on Poverty Sunday. Readings: Isaiah 35:3-6; Psalm 147:1-7;
