Editorial: In the bookshop

26/08/2016 | Reform

You’re in a Victorian bookshop (or if you’re not, just pretend you are). While browsing for something to read on your next stagecoach journey, you come across The Duty and Obligation of the Christian Minister by the Revd Frederick de … Read More

Interview: women will raise their voices

19/08/2016 | Reform

Esther Mombo is one of Africa’s foremost theologians and a formidable campaigner for gender equality. Despite some signs of change, she remains severely critical of patriarchal attitudes among Church leaders – attitudes that continue to foster discrimination and the oppression … Read More

Interview: 1517 and all that

06/07/2016 | Reform

Historian and TV presenter Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Stephen Tomkins

Five centuries ago next year, a teacher at an obscure university in Wittenberg, Germany, hung 95 discussion starters on the church door for his students on the subject of the … Read More

Credit where credit’s due

06/07/2016 | Reform

The Church, the fall of Wonga and the rise of credit unions. David Barclay sees how Christians are putting their money where their faith is

In the summer of 2013 the Church in the UK was front page news for … Read More

God’s work

06/07/2016 | Reform

Stan Hazell visits an award-winning community initiative focussed on jobseekers

The sale of some church land to Tesco left members of Glenorchy United Reformed Church in Exmouth wondering what they should do with the proceeds. The result is its work … Read More

Jumble sales of the apocalypse: Could an android be baptised, or ordained?

06/07/2016 | Reform

When robots come to church

One of the great theological questions I never got answered when I was in Sunday school was: “How does Jesus get my collection money?” The question arose whenever I put a couple of warm pennies … Read More