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 that … Read More

Reviews October 2024

02/10/2024 | Reform

Watership DownDirected by Martin RosenCertificate PG92 minutesReleased 25 October

Now fully restored in a new 4K restoration, this 1978 tale of rabbits on the run proved that an animated film need be neither made by Disney nor sugar-coated for children. … 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 word … Read More

When the dream becomes reality

02/10/2024 | Reform

The URC’s presence at Greenbelt Festival 2024 – with the theme of ‘Dream On’ – was the culmination of months of preparation, bringing to life ideas of how the Church can keep dreaming, growing and reaching out to the world … 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 think … Read More

Community Project Awards: Lancaster Road Food Hub

06/09/2024 | Reform 2

It is not just food that is being provided by the Lancaster Road Food Hub, Laurence Wareing discovers – it’s the gift of community

‘God doesn’t seem to have a problem with age,’ the Revd Ruth Dewis says. Quite the … Read More