A matter of heart: Education and the Free Churches

03/07/2024 | Reform

On 3 August 1944, the Education Act received Royal Assent. Eighty years on, when religious education sometimes feels like one more political football, Sarah Lane Cawte reflects on why RE – and education in general – still matters to the … Read More

Art in focus: July/August 2024

03/07/2024 | Reform

El AnantsuiThe Restless Earth, 2017Fabric and mixed media

This massive ‘cloth’ or hanging – or sculpture – is the work of Ghanaian artist El Anantsui. It is made from hundreds of flattened bottle tops, aluminium tins and other found objects, … Read More

Chapter & verse: Mark 6:39

03/07/2024 | Reform

Lance Stone walks in green pastures

It is a notable feature of the story of the feeding of the 5,000 that, apart from the resurrection, it is the only miracle that features in all four Gospels. As is usual in … Read More

Editorial: Politics

03/07/2024 | Reform

I remember as a child in the 1970s, sitting unstrapped in the back seat of the car, with the radio playing the Today programme, asking my mum what the government was. She said it was a man who runs a … 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