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

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

Here & now: Heather Moore

29/01/2025 | Reform

Heather Moore rejoices in the role of Youth Moderator

Five years ago, I attended my first Youth Assembly. I didn’t know it at the time, but that event and the people behind it would grow to be one of the … 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

On the pilgrim way: ‘Like a kindly earworm, I heard, “The light shines in the darkness”’

29/01/2025 | Reform

I made a resolution at Christmas time – not waiting for the new year. I decided that I would try with renewed effort to find the signs of light and life, and hope lying around me and in the wider … Read More