A good question: Lent: Have we given up giving up?

24/02/2023 | Reform

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Eugenia Constantinou‘Fasting is not just about food’

We should give up giving up. I suppose that seems strange coming from an Orthodox Christian. But yes, you should give up giving up because Great Lent was never … Read More

A good question: What’s go good about growth?

27/01/2023 | Reform

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KEVIN SNYMAN‘The driver of growth is debt’

The year 2100 is the date to watch, apparently. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a stark warning: we are on track for runaway global temperature rises … Read More

A good question: Did Jesus and Paul preach the same Gospel?

28/11/2022 | Reform

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ROSALIND SELBY‘They speak to different contexts’

Yes. No. Maybe. It depends on the context.

This isn’t very helpful, so let me try and unpack it.

Gospel (literally ‘good news’) is first used to proclaim God’s saving … Read More

A good question: Should we stay with Monarchy?

01/11/2022 | Reform

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ALAN PATERSON‘No family should have to live in a goldfish bowl’

The liberation of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey in 1950 was an early, amusing royal memory of my childhood, as were the cries … Read More

A good question: What is the United Reformed Church for?

03/10/2022 | Reform

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David Cornick‘A community of tenth lepers’

Luke tells us that one day when Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem, he passed through the borderlands of Samaria and Galilee. Ten lepers, keeping a safe Covid distance, … Read More

A good question: How do I hear God’s call?

20/09/2022 | Reform

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Sue Mccoan‘It comes through his friend’

In John’s Gospel, Nathanael is sitting under a fig tree when his friend Philip turns up and starts babbling on about finding the one promised by the Law and the … Read More