Editorial: Partied out

28/01/2022 | Reform

The Gospel reading for the Sunday before this edition of Reform went to press was the wedding in Cana, where Jesus turns water into wine. Preaching on it this time last year, I was struck by how out-of-key with our … Read More

I am… a funeral director

28/01/2022 | Reform

Mark Mason tells the funeral director’s story

I got into funeral directing because I wanted something to do while the girls were at nursery. I was at home looking after the children while my wife was working and needed something … 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

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

Don’t call us missing

28/01/2022 | Reform

Victoria Turner calls on the Church to listen seriously to younger voices

There is a growing amount of literature on the subject of reconciliation across the generations in the Church. With a lot of this scholarship, however, I have found … Read More

Not just hot air: Inside COP26

29/11/2021 | Reform

Peter Knowles reports from the UN climate summit

I’ve joined a vast crowd, filling a quayside road in Glasgow from end to end and pavement to pavement. We huddle together against the wind off the Clyde and edge forward, enviously … Read More