Any earthly use

24/09/2021 | Reform

Can the church make an effective response to climate change? asks Andy Atkins of environmental charity A Rocha UK, in the first of a three-part series

The world is now waking up, belatedly, to the fact that we are in … Read More

Climate Sunday

24/09/2021 | Reform

David Coleman reports from Glasgow Cathedral

Ecumenical occasions often work a bit too hard to please everyone. Or maybe they work too hard not to offend anyone.

There was no shortage of hard work, by a bewildering number of people, … Read More

Editorial: The voice of disruption

24/09/2021 | Reform

I ended last month’s editorial on the climate crisis with the conclusion that ‘I need to put my history books to one side and take to the streets’.

Saying I’ll do something doesn’t always make it happen, but this time … Read More

Chapter & verse: Matthew 16:13-20

24/09/2021 | Reform

Emmanuel Frimpong hears Jesus’s call

Who is Jesus Christ? For some people, Jesus Christ was just a human being, the son of a carpenter and a woman who was not a virgin. For such people, it is unthinkable for Jesus … Read More

Knox’s graven image

24/09/2021 | Reform

Peter Stanford reflects on the statue of Scotland’s iconoclastic reformer

I CAN’T HELP WONDERING what John Knox would make of his lifesize statue standing against the north wall of the nave of St Giles’ Cathedral in Edinburgh’s Old Town, sometimes … Read More

Celebrating 50 together

24/09/2021 | Reform

The United Reformed Church celebrates its 50th anniversary next year. Francis Brienen and Andy Jackson, Convenors of the anniversary planning group, look ahead

No one thought in 1972 that the URC would reach its silver jubilee, let alone golden. It … Read More