THE STUDENT CHRISTIAN MOVEMENT (SCM) has launched a new campaign calling on all churches to be transparent about the welcome that LGBTQ+ people receive in their church, asking church leaders to reflect on what they teach, imply and model with regard to LGBTQ+ people.

WHAT DOES IT MEAN to be fully seen and accepted? In a new temporary audio-visual exhibition, OTN trustee Augustine Tanner Ihm recounts the moment when his searching for a space to be ‘all of who he is’ comes to an end.

JOIN AN IT SUPPORT TEAM on a musical quest to stop the Apocalypse. 12+ Adult themes around mental health, domestic abuse and conversion therapy. Skitzoid Productions, which aims to create challenging, entertaining and creative theatre that pushes at the boundaries of what can be done on stage, are excited to bring their third original musical to Waterloo East Theatre this October.

IN THE LATEST episode of a podcast ‘for migrants by migrants’, two people with experience of seeking asylum share their stories, one who won leave to remain in the UK with support from an Open Table community, and another who is afraid to get support from an LGBT-affirming Christian community because she fears that the Black African church she attends will no longer support her.

OTN PATRON Cherry Vann, Bishop of Monmouth, is among 90 bishops who signed a statement saying ‘we believe that LGBT+ people are a precious part of God’s creation’ in response to a Call on Human Dignity at the Lambeth Conference of global Anglican leaders yesterday.