Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘It’s language and ingredients are shrunk and packaged in a bit of cardboard’

27/11/2024 | Reform

Seven years ago I wrote a festive history book, Hark! The biography of Christmas. But festive celebrations have moved on in seven years. What traditions have evolved since? Here are 12 (the Christmassiest number) surprisingly modern customs that feel rather … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Matthew 11:29

27/11/2024 | Reform

Carole Marsden’s lessons from the field

Life is full of learning. We learn every day, deepening and broadening knowledge already known or something brand new, surprising or sought out.

The internet can provide you with tools to find out whether … Read More

Over the garden fence

25/10/2024 | Reform

As the Methodist Church arrives at new offices a stone’s throw from United Reformed Church House, Reform asks what the new neighbours have in common and whether they’ll ever just move in together. Chatting over the fence are the Revds … Read More

Reviews November 2024

25/10/2024 | Reform

BlitzDirected by Steve McQueenCertificate 12a120 minutesReleased 8 November

People just getting on with life in dire circumstances, doing what they have to do. A mother searches for her lost son. An 11-year-old embraces his black identity. Women work in munitions … Read More

A good question: Can protest be wrong

25/10/2024 | Reform

One question, four answers

Kevin Snyman‘In Jesus I discern when protest is right or wrong’

Protest seems far easier to criminalise than to support. I’ll list four examples.

One: from 31 October 2024, a law comes into force permitting ‘buffer … Read More

Editorial: The story of Jonah

25/10/2024 | Reform

I was brought up with Bible stories, so I knew the story of Jonah from childhood. A child’s version of the story, anyway.

In it, God sends Jonah to Nineveh to preach to unbelievers, but Jonah doesn’t fancy it. He … Read More