Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I’d forgotten that there on my bookshelf are countless words of inspiration’

06/09/2024 | Reform

Lately I’ve spent more money on hospital car parks than I’d like. Yes, we’re in one of those seasons. First came my own kidney issues, then came an ailing parent – entirely unrelated, but such is life. On some days … Read More

Reviews September 2024

06/09/2024 | Reform

FirebrandDirected by Karim AinouzCertificate 15121 minutesReleased 6 September

History. The Tudors. King Henry VIII wanted a male heir to the throne. His first wife failed to deliver, so he divorced her. When the Pope excommunicated him, Henry set up the … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘I seemed to be the keeper of the family memory’

06/09/2024 | Reform

This summer I have been on rather a special journey down memory lane – all the more special because it was shared. I visited my 89-year-old cousin in Germany. He remembered our first ‘adult’ meeting – I was 17 and … Read More

The music of grace

03/07/2024 | Reform

Tim Meadows has travelled a long way, from fundamentalism in the mountains of Virginia to leading a pioneering, inclusive spiritual community in Liverpool. This year he becomes the Moderator of the General Assembly for the United Reformed Church. He talked … Read More

Loving Luggage

03/07/2024 | Reform

Craftivist Sarah Corbett describes how to make luggage tags to encourage fellow travellers to think beyond faceless statistics

Craftivism, explains Sarah Corbett, author of The Craftivist Collective Handbook and How to Be a Craftivist, is using things such as embroidery … Read More

Jesus and… the margins

03/07/2024 | Reform

A series on what we have to learn from and about Jesus on a range of subjects. This month, Alex Clare-Young on people on the margins

Why? That is often the question asked by those among whom I minister at … Read More