Soul stories: Elizabeth Welch

25/10/2024 | Reform

Elizabeth Welch looks back on a lifetime of calling

I first heard God calling me to ministry at the age of 15 in Johannesburg, where my father was serving as a Congregational minister. I was out walking in the South … Read More

Vital signs

25/10/2024 | Reform

How to grow a healthy, whole-life disciple-making church culture, by Ken Benjamin of LICC

As a church leader, I always knew disciple-making was essential, but I also found it tricky. Discipleship is hard to prioritise and establish as part of … Read More

Community Project Awards: Dursley tabernacle food hub

25/10/2024 | Reform

Pineapples don’t solve everything, Stephen Tomkins discovers. But they’re a start

The wealth of community projects happening at Dursley Tabernacle in Gloucestershire might never have started if it wasn’t for the Covid lockdown. Before the pandemic, the local Marks and … Read More

The Church of Scotland: Edge of catastrophe

25/10/2024 | Reform

The Church statistician Martin Camroux looks at the parlous state of the Kirk

At first sight, the Church of Scotland still looks impressive. It worships in the great churches of Scotland, the General Assembly has at least some of its … Read More

The place where we worship

25/10/2024 | Reform

Kathy Galloway reflects on God, humans and our fellow species

The instinct to worship in response to the beauty and mystery of the universe is as old as the human story itself. The passionate outpourings of psalmists and poets are … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘At a Not Going Out recording, Miranda asked if I’d write for her radio sitcom’

25/10/2024 | Reform

Paul Kerensa on writing Miranda

Watching Sarah Hadland on Strictly Come Dancing lately has brought back what-I-call ‘such fun’ memories of working on Miranda.

The BBC sitcom was part of my life for a decade, from its Radio 2 origins … Read More