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

Chapter & Verse: Matthew 16: 2-23

29/01/2025 | Reform

Graham McGeoch sees the signs of the times. Plus Bible study questions

As you read this, I will be in Harare, Zimbabwe, for the Council for World Mission’s DARE Global Forum. ‘DARE’ is short for ‘Discernment and Radical Engagement’: a … Read More

The Colors Within

27/01/2025 | Reform

Directed by Naoko YamadaCertificate U, 101 minutesReleased31 January

This Japanese animated feature opens in a boarding school chapel, in which a teenage girl is praying the Serenity Prayer. In terms of real-life religious faith, this is not particularly odd; yet … Read More

The Changed Heart of the General Secretary

27/11/2024 | Reform

Victoria Turner considers Bernard Thorogood and the restructuring of the Council for World Mission

There are big benefits to studying recent history. You can see, very clearly, the present-day consequences of the decisions made in the time that you’re studying. … Read More

A good question: Where is America now?

27/11/2024 | Reform

One question, four answers

Karen Georgia Thompson‘The call to follow Jesus invites risk’

The aftermath of the presidential elections in the United States left a mixture of emotions and responses to the election of former President Donald Trump as the … Read More