Art in Focus – November 2023

30/10/2023 | Reform

The Red Vineyard / Red Vineyard at Arles (Montmajour)Vincent van Gogh1888

This colourful, vibrant work may well be the only painting its creator Vincent van Gogh ever sold. Certainly, it is the only one for which we have a named … Read More

God’s love on a plate

30/10/2023 | Reform

Laurence Wareing discovers that the Wooler Warm Hub is just what the Northumbrian town needed

The market town of Wooler is settled at the edge of the Northumbria National Park. It is not without its facilities; it has shops, pubs … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘A door closed and the writer I’d formerly admired continued speaking’

30/10/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa offers a warning before pressing record

I suppose all preachers hope their sermons might linger longer. But I wonder how many know if they’re being recorded? Job 19:23 cries out, ‘Oh, that my words were recorded, that they … Read More

Get cracking with this code!

30/10/2023 | Reform

The QR code is your church’s new friend, says Andy Jackson

There is a saying: ‘The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.’ Four years ago, I wrote a piece for Reform about the … Read More

When does worship become performance?

30/10/2023 | Reform

Barbara Bennett tries to tell the difference

If for any reason I do not go to church on Sunday I can’t orientate my week. That act of getting together with others to worship God is my anchor – it sets … Read More

Editorial: The Spirit prays on our behalf

30/10/2023 | Reform

Some news stories seem too serious to pass over in silence on this page, and at the same time too serious for me to feel that I have anything worth saying about them. The recent events in Israel and Palestine … Read More