Chapter & verse: Luke 2:8-20

28/11/2022 | Reform

Matt Stone unwraps the joy of Christmas

I want to focus on one word: the word ‘joy’, for joy is a theme that runs through the Christmas story. Zechariah is told that he and his wife Elizabeth will have a … Read More

Reviews December 2022 / January 2023

28/11/2022 | Reform

Compelling mythology

Son of the White MareDirected by Marcell JankovicsCertificate 12, 86 minutesReleased on 4K Blu-ray

This 40-year-old animated film deserves to be better known. It recalls two perennial favourites. One is Fantasia (1940), where the idea of classical music liberated … Read More

A good question: Did Jesus and Paul preach the same Gospel?

28/11/2022 | Reform

One question, four answers

ROSALIND SELBY‘They speak to different contexts’

Yes. No. Maybe. It depends on the context.

This isn’t very helpful, so let me try and unpack it.

Gospel (literally ‘good news’) is first used to proclaim God’s saving … Read More

Swapping clothes, changing the world

28/11/2022 | Reform

Pre-loved school uniforms show love for the planet in an award-winning exchange project. Laurence Wareing reports

It began with a couple of old choir robe rails in the vestibule. Three years on and St Columba’s URC in Wolverhampton has given … Read More

Premier Christianity

28/11/2022 | Reform

Mark Vickers, Catholic priest and author of God in Number 10: The personal faith of the prime ministers, from Balfour to Blair talks to Reform

God in Number 10 covers the diversity of the religious faith of the 19 prime … Read More

Transforming our communitites: Fixers or empowerers?

28/11/2022 | Reform

Concluding a two-part series, Simon Hawking asks what makes our communities change

It feels like each day brings another daunting headline in the news. Wars and rumours of wars, the plight of refugees, rising costs, ecological disasters and disease. There … Read More