A good question: What makes good worship?

23/07/2025 | Reform

One question, four answers

Nigel Uden‘Good worship is essentially contextual’

Shaping worship has shaped my week for many years. I realise five things have informed my sense of what shapes good worship.

First, giving it the supreme place in my … Read More

A thousand tongues

23/07/2025 | Reform

In Harmony – Free Church Choirs is keeping alive an important tradition, and a great experience, Stephen Tomkins discovers

It seems that being in a community choir has never been more popular. The Big Choral Census in 2017 found that … Read More

Don’t just vote, meet!

23/07/2025 | Reform

Why a group of church members met with Ed Davey, leader of the Lib Dems, and what happened, by Christine Thompson

Last year, before the General Election, Christian Aid launched an initiative called ‘Break bread with your MP’. It encouraged … Read More

Community project awards: Food with friends

23/07/2025 | Reform

An ecumenical project in Flintshire shows the benefit of keeping things simple

Food with Friends has kept going for nearly ten years, thanks not least to its simple premise: a meal every Tuesday for whoever wants it. The simplicity does … Read More

Soul Stories: John Proctor

23/07/2025 | Reform

John Proctor on his journey with Christ

I well remember the day I was converted. To natural gas. It was a purely mechanical process. New valves and burners and so on were fitted to cookers and heaters. Once the job … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘I felt we were intruders in the unmanaged woods’

23/07/2025 | Reform

Sheila Maxey takes a back seat

In May I spent a week on a canal boat exploring the Caldon Canal. The sun shone all week as I mostly sat at the front of the boat watching nature, hour after hour. … Read More