Art in Focus – September 2023

29/08/2023 | Reform

CrucifixionPhilip Eglin2008

Philip Eglin is an exciting ceramic artist. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1986 and being awarded the Jerwood Prize for Applied Arts ten years later, he has produced an outstanding series of works. They … Read More

The World Council of Churches at 75

29/08/2023 | Reform

Susan Durber celebrates 75 years of the WCC

The World Council of Churches (WCC) and our National Health Service have things in common. They are each marking a 75th anniversary, had William Temple among their architects, were formed in the … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Exodus 14:13-14

29/08/2023 | Reform

Sue Walker learns how to trust God

This scripture hit me between the eyes 19 days before my 30-year-old daughter was diagnosed with acute leukaemia in December 2020, during lockdown. Now at some distance, I can look back at what … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘After all, we’ve not read every book yet’

29/08/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa enjoys a bedtime story

I still read bedtime stories to my children, perhaps later than most. I don’t mean that it’s late in the day – a midnight reading would be madness. I mean our children may be … Read More

When asylum seekers are found

29/08/2023 | Reform

It’s not just the asylum seekers whose lives are changed by one of the latest projects to win a URC Community Project Award. Laurence Wareing reports

The thing about DARE, says Negan, is that ‘you don’t have to go to … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘I handed in my keys and walked home with tears streaming down my face’

29/08/2023 | Reform

Sheila Maxey clears out and finds lost treasures

Last Saturday I went into Brentwood United Reformed Church for the last time. Men from the two other churches in the pastorate were loading things into a hired white van – the … Read More