Art in Focus – February 2022

28/01/2022 | Reform

Maundy ThursdayMalcolm Doney, 2019

Covid has been awful, alienating, and tragic for some but, as we’ve slowly begun to realise, it has had a few beneficial effects as well. We’ve recognised our dependence on one another and on public services. … Read More

On the pilgrim way ‘Every event which takes place feels like a gift’

28/01/2022 | Reform

Sheila Maxey sees the gift in every event

I don’t usually feel this lighthearted at the beginning of another year. The news is as bad as ever: Omicron rampant and so many people’s Christmas hopes of family meetings or escape … Read More

A place of belonging

28/01/2022 | Reform

Laurence Wareing visits a week-round café in Farnham, Surrey

To compare a downtown bar in Boston with a church café in the smart Surrey market town of Farnham is perhaps a little leftfield. But fans of the 1980s American sitcom … Read More

The churches that make us: Chapel on the Hill, Sedlescombe

28/01/2022 | Reform

In the first of a new series covering the breadth of churches in the URC, Reform visits Sedlescombe, East Sussex

It’s all been God-led,’ says Marie Jackson. ‘We didn’t plan to do it at all.’ She and her husband Peter … Read More

Where is God in Myanmar

28/01/2022 | Reform

Chris Mabey tells the story of Myanmar, and considers how we can help

Last week we met a young lady from Myanmar serving at a local pub. She and my Burmese wife April were soon chatting as compatriots. It was … Read More

Here and Now: Naomi Baldwin

28/01/2022 | Reform

Naomi Baldwin is making and unmaking plans

I love Christmas songs. Yes, I know it’s February, but as I write this column, it’s early December, so bear with me. Pop songs, worship songs, hymns and carols. . . they’re all … Read More