How we get along

29/01/2021 | Reform

What unites us, what divides us, and how to build friendship? Ed Kessler presents the findings of a major report into diversity in the UK

It is common to read in the media that our increasingly diverse society – particularly … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: Church busyness

29/01/2021 | Reform

I’m relieved church doors have closed

I have something to confess. I feel a relief that my church has taken the decision to not reopen after Christmas. I feel terribly guilty about this but, in all honesty, I am not … Read More

Chapter & verse: John 2:1-12

29/01/2021 | Reform

John Bradbury considers what a wedding party tells us about God’s kingdom

It seems perverse to invite you to contemplate a vast wedding celebration just now. I’m writing this in the middle of a lockdown, when large gatherings of friends … Read More

I am… an essential worker

29/01/2021 | Reform

Norman Setchell on the value of being a meal delivery driver

In the years that followed my retirement from full-time ministry, like most clergy drawing their pension, I looked for something to occupy my time that would be of use … Read More

Community stories: Jo Patterson

29/01/2021 | Reform

Continuing a series hearing from Church-Related Community Workers, Jo Patterson tells the story of integrating a church and community centre in Peckham, London

I had been going to the United Reformed Church in Orpington, Kent, for 13 years when somebody … Read More

Spacious church

29/01/2021 | Reform

Alex Clare-Young asks why many people feel more welcome at online church

Psalm 18 says that God ‘brought me out into a spacious place; God rescued me because God delighted in me’. Online church is, for many, a spacious place. … Read More