The Life of Chuck

23/07/2025 | Reform

Directed by Mike FlanaganCertificate 15, 110 minutesReleased 20 August

‘What are mortals, that you should think of them?’, asks the psalmist.

Stephen King is known as a horror writer, but he sometimes breaks that mould; his stories have produced the … Read More

Editorial: Family history

23/07/2025 | Reform

My grandma came to live with us when I was twelve, and brought a box of sepia family photos. I sat at her feet, interrogated her for names and stories, and, thankfully, took notes.

In later years I skulked around … Read More

A thousand tongues

23/07/2025 | Reform

In Harmony – Free Church Choirs is keeping alive an important tradition, and a great experience, Stephen Tomkins discovers

It seems that being in a community choir has never been more popular. The Big Choral Census in 2017 found that … Read More

Here & now: Alvin mark

23/07/2025 | Reform

Alvin Mark on roots and discovery

I wasn’t born in Tranquebar, but my faith heritage is deeply rooted there. It was in that coastal town of Tamil Nadu, India, that Lutheran missionaries like Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (pictured above) brought the Bible … Read More

Soul Stories: John Proctor

23/07/2025 | Reform

John Proctor on his journey with Christ

I well remember the day I was converted. To natural gas. It was a purely mechanical process. New valves and burners and so on were fitted to cookers and heaters. Once the job … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘I felt we were intruders in the unmanaged woods’

23/07/2025 | Reform

Sheila Maxey takes a back seat

In May I spent a week on a canal boat exploring the Caldon Canal. The sun shone all week as I mostly sat at the front of the boat watching nature, hour after hour. … Read More