Art in Focus: Issue 3 – 2025

25/04/2025 | Reform

The Queen’s Window,Westminster AbbeyDavid Hockney, 2018

In 2018, London’s Westminster Abbey was looking to commission a stained-glass window to commemorate the reign of Queen Elizabeth II. They chose David Hockney. Hockney is now considered one of the most influential British … Read More

Editorial: Planting seeds

25/04/2025 | Reform

I have been planting seeds for the first time in years. My wife grows beautiful flowers that make our garden a paradise, but I figure there are a few gaps between them and on the kitchen sill for something a … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘No one has ever written about this extraordinary event’

25/04/2025 | Reform

Paul Kerensa tells the story of Britain’s most-heard prayer

It’s been a year since the centenary of the first appearance by a monarch on radio, in the earliest BBC recording.This’ll be the 101st anniversary then. It’s not exactly a round … Read More

On the pilgrim way ‘It was a coming together of a part of the Church which had now dispersed’

25/04/2025 | Reform

Sheila Maxey enjoys a Church reunion

It is 20 months since Brentwood United Reformed Church closed. Last Christmas I received an email from C who, with her husband and son, moved away from Brentwood about two years before the closure. … Read More

Soul Stories: Jim Gascoigne

25/04/2025 | Reform

Jim Gasgoine remembers a pioneer calling

Perhaps the journey began before I was born. ‘In the womb you knew me,’ wrote the psalmist.

Perhaps it was in the family. My great grandfather, the Revd JG Gascoigne was a Congregational minister. … Read More

Songs of Faith: Stephen Newell & Naomi Sharp

25/04/2025 | Reform

Stephen Newell and Naomi Sharp on hymn writing as a team

Good things are coming out of north east Bristol! Stephen Newell, URC minister and guitarist, and Naomi Sharp, Methodist lay worker and musician, are collaborating on ‘New Praise Hymns’. … Read More