Reviews June 2024

03/06/2024 | Reform

Good stewardship

WildingDirected by David AllenCertificate PG, 75 minutesReleased 14 June

After they inherited Knepp Farm in West Sussex from his parents in the early 1980s, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady Burrell) kept it going for some 17 years … Read More

Preach it!

03/06/2024 | Reform

Lucy Berry is a writer, performance poet and United Reformed Church minister. Stephen Tomkins talked to her following the publication of her book Being a Preacher: Reflections and practical advice on speaking to be heard

How did you come to … Read More

Answering the call, rising to the challenge

03/06/2024 | Reform

Monica Carly remembers her father’s call to Jamaica, 76 years ago

The Bible is full of stories about people of faith who received a call from God asking them to take on a task for which they felt inadequate and … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘We went through Acts in the style of one long recap: Previously in the Bible…’

03/06/2024 | Reform

If you’re on your church’s preaching team, miss a preachers’ meeting at your peril. You’ll be signed up for an all-age sermon covering the whole book of Acts. I speak from experience…

Paul Kerensa is on tour around the country. … Read More

Soul stories: Barnabas Shin

03/06/2024 | Reform

Barnabas Shin on working through a crisis of faith

My journey of faith started when my sister led me, a five-year-old boy, to church. Although I was not born into a Christian family, I grew up in a faith community. … Read More

Jesus and… the Cross

03/06/2024 | Reform

A series on what we have to learn from and about Jesus on a range of subjects. This month, John Proctor on the crucifixion

As soon as Jesus launched into public ministry, he ran into opposition. Clearly there would be … Read More