Community stories: Rosie Buxton

01/12/2020 | Reform

Continuing a series hearing from Church-Related Community Workers, Rosie Buxton tells the story of creating financial inclusion in Huddersfield

Church-related community work (CRCW) is about meeting people in whatever their situation and enabling networks to develop. Church-Related Community Workers are … Read More

Stars in the sky

01/12/2020 | Reform

How a British social worker came to be known as the father of a million Chinese children

Robert Glover had long felt a calling to China. Working as a social worker in Norfolk, then Guernsey, he imagined becoming an evangelist … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: “I’ll be home for Christmas,” so the song goes. Won’t we all?’

01/12/2020 | Reform

Paul Kerensa shares Covid-safe Christmas ideas

A couple of months ago in this column, I asked for your outside-the-box ideas to light up this bleak midwinter. If we can’t sing in church, if the Rule of Six-Geese-a-Laying means no big … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘Is this meeting a new kind of witness?’

01/12/2020 | Reform

Sheila Maxey finds hope before lockdown

There is nothing like something new to cheer me up as I begin to face the fact that we might be in this Covid-19 world for a long, long time. In early October, we … Read More

I am… a prisoner’s mentor

01/12/2020 | Reform

A story of mentoring after prison

When most people think about volunteering to help others, prisoners aren’t often the ‘others’ they choose. You only have to read the news to discover that most people think prisoners are ‘bad people’ who … Read More

God is dead. Long live God

01/12/2020 | Reform

Belief in God is dying in the west, says Martin Camroux, but the mystery of God is inescapable

Can’t you hear those little bells tinkling? Down on your knees! They’re bringing the sacraments to a dying God,’ wrote the German … Read More