Editorial: The stuff I can’t keep

29/01/2025 | Reform

I hadn’t realised that bereavement can come in stages. Because my mum had had Alzheimer’s disease for some years before she died last summer we had already lost a lot of her.

She was still herself, but when you’ve forgotten … Read More

Top Gear

29/01/2025 | Reform

Malcolm Hanson was a founder member of the United Reformed Church and founding Chair of GEAR, the Group for Evangelism and Renewal in the URC. He talks to Reform about baptism in the Spirit, holding together diverse opinions in one … Read More

Art in Focus: Issue 1 – 2025 – Reform Magazine

29/01/2025 | Reform

BunkerMichael Leunig 1945 – 2024

The internationally beloved Australian cartoonist, artist, poet and writer Michael Leunig has died. The announcement came just before Christmas: ‘The pen has run dry, its ink no longer flowing – yet Mr Curly and his … Read More

A good question: Are values more important than beliefs? – Reform Magazine

29/01/2025 | Reform

One question, five answers

Jo Clifford‘Faith was about believing things you didn’t understand’

I believe in God, Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth…’

I lost count of the number of times I had to say the Apostles’ Creed during … Read More

Isaac Watts at 350

29/01/2025 | Reform

Joan McGavin looks at how the hymnwriter’s place of birth marked his 350th throughout last year

Last year was the 350th anniversary of the birth of Isaac Watts in Southampton, and a number of events, long in the planning, took … Read More

Sharing services

29/01/2025 | Reform

How can the work of local churches be made more manageable? Myles Dunnett gives an update on the Church Life Review

How could a URC-wide shared services portal work? That was the question addressed by the latest event in the … Read More