Chapter & verse: Isaiah 61:10-62:3

01/12/2020 | Reform

Peter Cruchley on why Isaiah reminds him of footballer Marcus Rashford

Let’s explore these words from Isaiah alongside the words of the English footballer Marcus Rashford, who wrote – on 2 November, in an open letter to his ten-year-old self: … 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

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

Editorial: A sustained assault on democracy

01/12/2020 | Reform

In the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency, there were widely circulated rumours of a dossier of compromising material on him. Such rumours were neither here nor there, one would have thought. Considering what the US public already knew about … 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

News comment: The last Trump?

01/12/2020 | Reform

Donald Norwood considers Christians’ response to Trump

If you try and separate politics and religion, you end up with Trump. Or so it seems to me, after reading Sarah Posner’s Unholy: Why white evangelicals worship at the altar of Donald … Read More