Let God in

22/09/2025 | Reform

Our Church’s idea of God has to change, says John Bradbury, General Secretary of the URC, in a powerful call to renewal

…The primary exponent of the position that the Council of Nicaea came to embrace was Athanasius, who was … Read More

To the ends of the road

22/09/2025 | Reform

Michael Harvey is best known as the developer of Back to Church Sunday. This year he has been working with the URC North Western Synod on a remarkably non-terrifying and productive approach to evangelism, the ACORN practice.

Can you … Read More

The Glassworker

17/09/2025 | Reform

Directed by Usman Riaz Certificate 12a98 minutes Released 19 September

Although this looks and feels like a movie made by Japan’s famed drawn animation house Studio Ghibli, it is in fact Pakistan’s first animated feature: no mean feat given … Read More

Where the hope comes from

23/07/2025 | Reform

The aid agency Christian Aid is 80 years old this year. To mark the anniversary, Fiona Bennett spoke with Andrew Tomlinson of Christian Aid Scotland at a service in Augustine United Church, Edinburgh

Fiona: I’m curious to think of how … Read More

Time for a movement

23/07/2025 | Reform

Niall Cooper stepped down in June after 28 years as Director of Church Action on Poverty. He looks back and forward with Reform

Were you brought up in the faith?My dad was a Methodist minister, so I was brought up … Read More

A good question: What makes good worship?

23/07/2025 | Reform

One question, four answers

Nigel Uden‘Good worship is essentially contextual’

Shaping worship has shaped my week for many years. I realise five things have informed my sense of what shapes good worship.

First, giving it the supreme place in my … Read More