How lovely on the mountains

29/04/2024 | Reform

Stephen Thornton looks back on 60 years of ministry and mountains

When I was a child at a Congregational church in Bradford, the main service was in the evening, with an afternoon Sunday school for children and adults. But they … Read More

Art in Focus: May 2024

29/04/2024 | Reform

Marc ChagallAbraham and the Three Angels, c.1960-66Musée National Marc Chagall, Nice, France

The Hospitality of Abraham, the icon by the great Russian iconographer Rublev (pictured below), is very well known. This painting of the same scene by Marc Chagall is … Read More

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

Here & Now: Heather Moore

29/04/2024 | Reform

Heather Moore tackles faith and physics

One of the things I’ve been asked when people find out I’m a Christian and study physics is how I can believe in both. How can I view both the creation described in Genesis … 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