Reform July/August 2011
Interview »
“Perhaps we have declined into a kind of barbarism where the spiritual senses are concerned”
Features »
Keith Forecast celebrates 75 years of Pilots, the non-uniformed youth organisation run by the United Reformed Church
The Catholic development agency Progressio has recently released a series of interviews with individuals who are living or working with HIV in poor countries …
Author and “mega pastor” Rob Bell responds to the recent evangelical outcry over his bestselling new book, Love Wins.
The quiet of a warm summer’s night can be a source of dread if we struggle to sleep – but it offers rich blessings …
Prompted by the 150th anniversary of the start of the American civil war, Paul Millward examines Christian influences on slavery, the pivotal issue over …
Sian Collins reflects on the recent culmination of the churches’ Decade to Overcome Violence
Tibetan Buddhists are forced to denounce the Dalai Lama and to swear allegience to the state and the Communist Party
Columnists »
What do Billy Graham and Queen Elizabeth have in common?
And what does it mean to be “Jamaican”? Difficult to sort out if you take it seriously, as Saville does
The family eyed both me and their lunch warily. I had cooked a common nettle and wild garlic soup
Within three minutes the chapel is so packed I cannot even stand at the lecturn
The promise that our children shall come back to their own country is a tantalising one – it can seem to entice us like …
In certain circumstances, and usually quite unexpectedly, my heart sings
Editorial »
Christian apologists condemn the New Atheist battles being fought against caricatures of their faith, and demand to know why more rigorous theological positions lie (albeit, too often, on dusty academic library shelves) unchallenged.
Reviews »
Reflection »
Under what circumstances would you lie about your Bible reading habits?
Poetry »
Still waters, tranquillity, silence
see how the pretty churches witness:
withdrawal, parochialism and the inner self
while the prophets rage about injustice,
corruption and affairs of the market …
Reform July/August 2011 
