Now what?

29/11/2021 | Reform

COP26’s success or failure will depend on what happens next, says Andy Atkins, in the last of his series of articles

Where do we go from here? Will progressive governments and civil society be able to use the opportunities of … Read More

Chapter & verse: Mark 5: 1-20

29/11/2021 | Reform

Stuart Radcliffe on demons

Are you allowed to have a favourite passage of Scripture? I’m not sure, but if you are, then this would be one of mine!

It’s a great story. It has a bit of everything in it … Read More

On the pilgrim way ‘It was not at all like a funeral service’

29/11/2021 | Reform

Sheila Maxey remembers saints

Growing up in Scotland I loved Hallowe’en: the turnip lanterns (much harder to make than pumpkin ones), the ‘dooking’ for apples and other silly games. But All Saints Day completely passed me by then – and … Read More

Place of running water

29/11/2021 | Reform

Laurence Wareing reports on a church community project offering food, books and more

If, as the Christian poet Steve Turner once observed, ‘there’s something quite religious’ about sharing a cup of coffee, then Sanctuary Café in Lymm is proof of … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I tucked into 200 mince pies and three gallons of mulled wine’

29/11/2021 | Reform

A good-as-possible Christmas with Paul Kerensa

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without – what?

Presents, according to the book Little Women. The Radio Times, according to the ad campaign for, well, Radio Times. An annual viewing of Die Hard, according to … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: Receiving generosity

29/11/2021 | Reform

Can I receive generosity?

I wonder how Mary and Joseph felt as people turned up to honour their child with praise and with luxurious and expensive gifts. Were they overwhelmed by how vital their child was to others? Did they … Read More