News comment: A day at war

22/09/2017 | Reform

Mark Meatcher reports on his activism at No Faith in War Day, a nonviolent protest against the DSEI arms fair in London

I believe the Spirit of God is stirring deep inside me at the moment.

I attended my first … Read More

Welcome back!

22/09/2017 | Reform

The United Reformed Church explores inclusion at Greenbelt festival

The United Reformed Church went to Greenbelt this August, for the second year of its associate partnership with the festival. The URC produced a packed programme of events on the theme … Read More

When is a person not a person?

22/09/2017 | Reform

Margie is still Margie. So why, asks Lucy Berry, do people treat her like less of a person when they hear she has early-onset dementia?

When you meet her, you can’t tell that Revd Margie has early-onset dementia. She is … Read More

Ninety-five more theses – Part three

22/09/2017 | Reform

We ask 95 opinion formers and opinion holders of today: How should the Church change? The final part of our series marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation

 

Loraine Mellor, President of the Methodist Conference The Church needs to … Read More

Chapter & verse: Ephesians 1:16

22/09/2017 | Reform

Jack Dyce gives thanks

The crime fiction author PD James observed that detective heroes – ‘like a secular priest, expert in the extraction of confession, whose final revelation of the truth confers a vicarious absolution on all but the guilty’ … Read More

I am… a foodbank user

22/09/2017 | Reform

Using a foodbank for the first time at 58

The first time I went to a foodbank was about 18 months ago. I was working in a sub post office, as a manager, on a very low wage. I was … Read More