A letter from… Melbourne

30/11/2016 | Reform

Stephen Burns learns from Advent in Melbourne

When I migrated to Australia from Birmingham, the Church year became strange for me. Here, Lent is in autumn, days are getting shorter and Easter is not accompanied by the new life of … Read More

A letter from… Kolkata, India

01/11/2016 | Reform

The Face to Face programme in Kolkata, India

On 3 September 2016, 14 of us, from ten different countries around the world, gathered in Kolkata for Indian leg of Face to Face – a seven-week programme of engagement with people … Read More

A letter to… Theresa May

26/09/2016 | Reform

In a change to our usual  ̒A letter from…̕, a Jamaican living in South Africa writes to the British Prime Minister

Dear Theresa May,

Who would have thought that a nation of imperial and colonial heritage would deport African-Jamaicans – … Read More

A letter from… Brexitville, UK

26/08/2016 | Reform

In Boston, Lincolnshire, 75% of people voted leave in the EU referendum. In neighbouring South Holland, the proportion was 73.6%. Robert Sheard, minister of three churches in the two most Eurosceptic districts in Britain, reports

This area of Lincolnshire is … Read More

A letter from… Idomeni, Greece

06/07/2016 | Reform

Dimitris Boukis reports on how Greek Christians are welcoming refugees

The Evangelical Church of Greece has been involved with refugees since February 2015. We’ve had a guest house and soup kitchen for immigrants since 1994. Two days a week we … Read More

A letter from… Yola, Nigeria

27/05/2016 | Reform

Anna (not her real name) was one of 276 girls kidnapped from Chibok secondary school in north-east Nigeria by the Islamist group Boko Haram. The girls were enslaved and some of them made to marry members of Boko Haram. Eventually … Read More