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

The work of the law

09/06/2025 | Reform

As a lawyer, Catriona Wheeler has worked for charities and advised the Church. Now she brings that expertise and outlook to her new role as Moderator of the United Reformed Church General Assembly

Were you brought up in the Christian … Read More

Church Life Review: Mission Statement

09/06/2025 | Reform

The Church Life Review Steering Group has agreed a vision, mission and strategy statement for the programme

Vision– that is, the desired future state, our tomorrow.A flourishing Church, less burdened and better enabled.

Mission– that is, what we are doing … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Leviticus 23:9-21

09/06/2025 | Reform

Rabbi Jonathan Wittenberg explains the counting of the weeks

In Big Wood in north London, as I write, the bluebells are out, the wood anemones are flowering beneath the ancient oaks and the garlic has emerged in profusion. In the … Read More

Justice and Unity

09/06/2025 | Reform

Bishop Paul Hendricks introduces Pope Leo XIV

On the day that Pope Leo XIV was elected I was at home, having returned from a conference that finished early. When white smoke appeared above St Peter’s Square to say a new … Read More

A good question: What difference did Pope Francis make?

09/06/2025 | Reform

One question, four answers

Dominic Robinson‘He was a true builder of bridges’

We are not living an era of change but a change of era.’ Francis’s comment in 2015 became a mantra for his papal ministry in a fast-changing world … Read More