Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I’d like to see an annual ‘Name-Badge Sunday’ with sticky labels to remind us of who’s who’

29/01/2024 | Reform 1

Church, eh? No one ever tells you the rules. Alright, I hear you – there are no rules in church. All are welcome, come as you are, just don’t sit in Marjorie’s seat. So perhaps they’re more guidelines. Social norms. … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘I still find myself talking about “us” and “our” with reference to the present’

29/01/2024 | Reform

Sheila Maxey is finding confidence without being a couple

My daughter Mary, while missing her father very much, confessed to me that she had been unprepared for the sadness she also felt at the loss of the unit called ‘Mum … Read More

Chapter and Verse: Genesis 45:4-5; 50:20-21

29/01/2024 | Reform

Joseph is a model of public leadership, says Andy Lie

We enter each new year living with the tension of hope for peace and stability in a troubled world, and the need to put our trust in God when it … Read More

Chapter and Verse: Luke 1:5-38

12/12/2023 | Reform

Joshua Norris surveys different responses to Christ’s birth

When I read Luke’s account of the Christmas story, I find myself fascinated by the assortment of reactions to God’s activity in those days. The angel Gabriel first appears to Zechariah who … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘All this clearing out raises questions: What I am getting ready for?’

12/12/2023 | Reform

Sheila Maxey finds pleasure and pain in remembering

‘For everything there is a season – a time to keep and a time to throw away.’ (Ecclesiastes 3:6)

I have just been to Germany again to visit my ailing 88-year-old cousin, … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘You can hear Marley’s chains a-rattling in that Bible story’

12/12/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa revisits A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol turns 180 years young this December. Yet Christians can have a love-hate relationship with this festive novella. Doesn’t it distract us from the real Christmas? The one with the Christ-child in … Read More