Reform March 2010
Interview »
Lucy Berry meets Bernard Ntahoturi, Archbishop of Burundi
Features »
Whether you physically take a break from your normal routine or explore other ways to make time and space for stillness, Lent offers a …
Everything that has breath…
Eileen Rhodes looks forward to Women’s World Day of Prayer, which is led this year by women in Cameroon
By the time …
Denese Chikwendu explains why she believes a radically inclusive approach to invitation should be at the heart of a new identity campaign being planned …
A Radio 4 appeal on 7 March to raise awareness of hardship in rural areas will seek also to raise funds to help the …
Having recently attended this year’s Assembly of young people in the United Reformed Church, Josh Thomas celebrates the opportunity it provides for fellowship and …
Through this prose poem, Carla Grosch-Miller envisions what is meant by “the Word” of God and how it stretches from the beginning of time …
The exponential scale of the growth of Christianity in China has left fledging church structures struggling to supply two vital resources, ministers and Bibles, …
Single mum Vicky Turner describes her gradual journey from a troubled, often isolated background, towards finding faith and community
Having lived through the recent flooding in Cumbria and followed with everyone else the still unfolding horror of the earthquake in Haiti, Alistair Smeaton …
Columnists »
‘Is Burns really as good as some folk say, or is he a gladly-seized-upon national icon whose shortcomings are glossed over?’
‘OK, I admit it, perhaps the fish and chip shop was not the best place to have a discussion about depleting fish stocks’
‘New Orleans, a city that few imagined capable of comeback post-Katrina, celebrated the crowning of the New Orleans Saints as 2010 Super Bowl champions’
‘I’m beginning to see that the job of the preacher isn’t to stand in the way of the text, but to allow it to …
‘The pslams were putting words into my mouth again, uncomfortable words which I seemed to mean too literally’
‘Mary has introduced the spectre of death into the feast of life’
Editorial »
It took me months to forgive a friend of mine for a mildly thoughtless comment she made last year. The last vestiges of resentment disappeared the moment I finally confronted her with her tiny transgression, on the phone two weeks ago.
Reflection »
‘I do have an occasional sense of hypocrisy when talking about prayer’
Poetry »
Stones lie around me, dry, heavy,
unresponsive. I, so hungry
after all this fasting, see them
as so many broken loaves.
Close to delirium, reaching down
I grasp their …





