On the pilgrim way: ‘Am I wasting time?’

29/05/2020 | Reform

I am writing this in late April and find myself, not surprisingly, thinking about time. I was brought up with quite a puritanical approach to time: it had to be used well. We offered our talents and our time to … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘He clashes with their candles and calm’

29/05/2020 | Reform

Paul Kerensa on how the Church can serve introverts and extroverts alike

Introverts, extroverts, converts: lend me your ears. This is the third and final column in a series of three, pondering how the Church can serve introverts and extroverts … Read More

Chapter & Verse: 2 Corinthians 1:3

29/05/2020 | Reform

John Proctor revisits the wisdom of 2 Corinthians

I worked for several months of my ministerial training on the Second Letter to the Corinthians. Not the easiest book of the Bible, it has stayed with me across the decades and … Read More

Where hope is found

29/05/2020 | Reform

Charissa King discovers awardwinning communityservice in Rhyl

Two weeks before the UK lockdown, a Welsh town centre faced a different kind of confinement. A gunman was on the loose in Rhyl, Denbighshire. Police cordoned off the central area to investigate. … Read More

Use well the interval

29/05/2020 | Reform

The pandemic is an opportunity to change things permanently, argues Jill Segger

We are in a strange land. A place of quarantine, self isolation, shielding, social distancing and loneliness. We are exiles from our normal lives and from much which … Read More

Bacon sandwich, chocolate biscuits and us

29/05/2020 | Reform

Kath Sharman reflects on faith amid difficult family life

I wasn’t prepared for the phone call from Dad on that bright and breezy morning in March, asking where Mum was. At one time, I would have had a flippant answer … Read More