20 Questions: Kate Bottley

22/04/2016 | Reform

What is your favourite time of year? About 12.30am on Christmas morning, I walk out of midnight Communion and stand in a silent, empty churchyard. After a few moments, I’m joined by one of our local farmers with a hip … Read More

“What God might be up to”

22/04/2016 | Reform

Greenbelt Festival and the United Reformed Church are going into partnership for the next two years. It’s a plan involving scrap metal, cake, flash mob liturgy and big questions, as Stephen Tomkins discovers

There are acrobats clambering around a huge … Read More

Learning to grow, growing to learn

22/04/2016 | Reform

Westminster College is expanding into a theological hub

The diggers are back at Westminster College, Cambridge. After a £7m redevelopment project between 2013 and 2014, which transformed the historic building into a modern centre for learning, building work is happening … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: The tricky skill of praying for others

22/04/2016 | Reform

Moving on from atheism, Commitment-Phobe toured churches and tried God. Now, as a new Christian, the journey continues

During our Sunday service, everyone is invited to come up to receive personal prayer should they want it. Someone on the prayer … Read More

Chapter & verse: Acts 2:1-21

22/04/2016 | Reform

John Proctor asks if Pentecost rings any bells

Bells are about the only sound missing on the Day of Pentecost. Yet, the chapter rings many a bell. It resonates with a host of hopes and encounters from elsewhere in the … Read More

Editorial: Tax and Jesus

22/04/2016 | Reform

Considering how little Jesus had to say about EU membership, the housing crisis and whether you have to sing the national anthem, it’s refreshing to find him talking directly about front page news. Should we or should we not pay … Read More