Five things I’ve learned about dialogue

22/05/2013 | Reform

Phil Wyman reflects on lessons learned from talking with pagans – and being excommunicated for it

I’ve made national news on a couple occasions in the United States for exploring new ways to exchange different ideas on religion. In the … Read More

Making waves

22/05/2013 | Reform

The pioneering seafaring missionary met a grisly end – but his story lives on. Tricia Legge celebrates John Williams

When I was a child, and halfpennies had a ship insignia on them, I joined other children in collecting them towards … Read More

God’s playground: Greenbelt at 40

22/05/2013 | Reform

Stephen Tomkins pitches up at the festival

Some say that at the first Greenbelt, festival-goers were outnumbered by police. In 1973, music festivals were associated with violent clashes between police and hippies, so when a new one sprang up on … Read More

Treasure in the attic

02/05/2013 | Reform

Tomorrow’s Church Times, I hear, has a report from Lambeth Palace Library where staff are working through a collection of books retrieved from the attic of a former staff member. “They thought that about 60 volumes had gone missing. They … Read More

Christian activist: Let us boycott

24/04/2013 | Reform

Dixe Wills on boycotting

Poor old Charles Cunningham Boycott. While Wellington bequeathed us his rubbery boot, the Earl of Sandwich his portable bread-based victuals, and Molotov his cocktail (writing as one who has made one, let me warn you that … Read More

Growing pains

24/04/2013 | Reform

However much we disagree on how to achieve it, politicians promise the same thing – an economy that grows and grows forever. Jill Segger doesn’t buy it

We do not live by bread alone, nor can we live without it. … Read More