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

Up from the streets

24/09/2021 | Reform

Claud Jackson talks to Stephen Tomkins about finding value in a world of drugs and guns

Claud Jackson was a young man of tremendous, but vulnerable, enthusiasms. Some come up in this interview. One that does not, but he mentions … Read More

Reviews – October 2021

24/09/2021 | Reform

State-sanctioned killing

Getting Away With Murder(s)Directed by David Nicholas WilkinsonCertificate 15, 175 minutesReleased 1 October

The industrial extermination of the Holocaust included most infamously some six million Jews but also smaller numbers of other groups including Poles, gay men, the … 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

Catherdral Protest

24/09/2021 | Reform

Valerie King describes her arrest in St Paul’s Cathedral

I was one of 15 members of Christian Climate Action (CCA) who went up to the altar of St Paul’s Cathedral on 29 August, and one of the 13 to get … 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