Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘We’re trying to take a step back from smartphones – and say hello to dumbphones.’

02/10/2024 | Reform

Be smart, get dumb, says Paul Kerensa

The new academic year has meant an ‘autumn-clean’ of our family’s digital life. Somehow our two children – surely toddlers a minute ago – are now in secondary school. With that jump … Read More

Community Project Awards: The Barn, Livingston

02/10/2024 | Reform

The lines between church and café are blurred when volunteers care and there’s great rhubarb pie. Laurence Wareing reports

Why do a job miles away when you could do it at home? This was one of the game-changing questions … Read More

Editorial: Imitation food and other news

02/10/2024 | Reform

Attention, unusually important information is buried in these usually whimsical musings.

Imitation food has been a growth industry in recent years. Veggie sausages, oat milk, vegan mince, plant-based bacon. It is an indication of how many of us … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘The suggestion that God takes risks all the time startled me and appealed to me’

02/10/2024 | Reform

‘Precarious’ is a troubling kind of word. I think of a rickety step ladder, or the worrying state of someone’s health, or the position of many a local church. Yet two books I have recently read have used the … Read More

A good question: What is our hope?

02/10/2024 | Reform

One question, four answers

Louise Franklin‘They said, the Christians die with a light in their eyes.’

Every day I am nearer to death than I was yesterday. And I am more confident now than I was when I … Read More

Soul stories: Sian Joyner

02/10/2024 | Reform

Sian Joyner sees disability differently

As I stand under shelter, waiting for a friend for a coffee date, the voice wakes me from a daydream. I think about lecturing them on the figurative nature of the healing stories; I … Read More