On the pilgrim way: ‘Can we discover the meaning of experiences many years later?’

29/04/2024 | Reform

It’s never too late to give thanks, Sheila Maxey finds

I can’t get T S Eliot’s words ‘We had the experience but we missed the meaning’ (Four Quartets: ‘The Dry Salvages’ III) out of my mind just now. My mind … Read More

Chapter & verse: Acts 1:6-11

29/04/2024 | Reform

Al Barrett gets earthy with the Ascension

The ancient Egyptian myth of Osiris tells of a ‘green’ god, born of earth and sky, a river god in a dangerously overheating world, who offers his cooling waters to the parched earth. … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I was going to set up The Mus – a museum of halves.’

29/04/2024 | Reform

Paul Kerensa has half a mind to open a museum

I had an idea about 20 years ago. I’ve never mentioned it to anyone. It was a business plan but I have never and will never capitalise on it. I … Read More

A good question: What can we learn from the Church in Africa?

26/03/2024 | Reform

One question, four answers

Peggy Kabonde‘Everywhere in Africa, the Church is recording growing membership’

Church life in Africa is characterised by deep faith, the joy of worship through music, dancing, praying and responsive meditation, and social responsibility undertaken in nearly … Read More

When your body won’t behave itself

26/03/2024 | Reform

Lee Battle reflects on living with an unpredictable body

My name is Lee Battle, and I am a minister in Wales and my body just won’t behave itself….

Lee Battle is interim minister of Portprennau Community Church

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Personal saviour?

26/03/2024 | Reform

Trevor Jamison asks why Mary Magdalene did not – and then did – recognise the risen Jesus

What prevented Mary Magdalene from recognising Jesus on the first Easter morning, when, the Gospel of John tells us, she took him for … Read More