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 … Read More

Jesus and… the environment

26/03/2024 | Reform

A series on what we have to learn from and about Jesus on a range of subjects. This month, Rosalind Selby on the environment

I have come across a number of efforts to show just how much Jesus cared … Read More

Art in Focus: April 2024

26/03/2024 | Reform

John the Evangelist, Gunda Gunde Gospel Book, Ethiopia c. 1540Ink and paint on parchmentWalters Art Museum, Baltimore

Ethiopian art is having a moment. Two major exhibitions in the United States have just closed – Africa and Byzantium at New … Read More

Time to stand

26/03/2024 | Reform

The Revd Mark Coleman stood as an independent candidate in the Rochdale by-election on 29 February. He gained 455 votes. He was a vicar in Rochdale and he has spent time in prison for his part in Insulate Britain protests. … 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 … Read More