Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘How about a Christmassy change to your post-service beverage mingling?’

22/11/2019 | Reform

Paul Kerensa on festive feasts

I wonder whether people loiter longer over their post-service beverages at this time of year. Surely, we crave the warmth. But instead of those biscuits, how about a Christmas change up? Mince pies might … Read More

Here & now: Diana Paulding

22/11/2019 | Reform

Diana Paulding visits Hebron

Standing on the corner of a street in Hebron (pictured), the Palestinian activist Issa Amro told us that we had more rights than him in his hometown. Our British passports meant that we could follow … Read More

Editorial: Christmas or politics?

22/11/2019 | Reform

This December brings us perhaps the most important general election in a generation. An occasion of anxiety and alarm for people of quite different perspectives, of nationwide division, of misinformation, of grave decisions.

It also brings us Christmas. … Read More

Reform’s charity Advent and Christmas calendar

22/11/2019 | Reform

Christmas isn’t Christmas unless it involves giving to people who can’t give back. Anything else is just swapping, really.

So it’s time for Reform’s reverse Advent calendar. Every day you put aside some money, let’s say £1, and … Read More

Interview: True love

01/11/2019 | Reform

Nadia Bolz-Weber talks to Stephen Tomkins

Nadia Bolz-Weber – in her latest book, Shameless (Canterbury Press, 2019) – urges the Church to move on from traditional teachings on sexuality and stage ‘a second Reformation that turns sexual harm into … Read More

Chapter & verse: Genesis 1:27-29

01/11/2019 | Reform

Helen Garton finds climate wisdom in Genesis

Half a century on this earth and I don’t think I’ve ever seen anything like it. There were some troubled times in the past. In the 1970s, I remember power cuts, living … Read More