Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘We’re not chasing bears, we’re chasing prayers’

21/02/2020 | Reform

Paul Kerensa is on the hunt for prayers

Every now and then, in our church, I do the prayers. I mean, they ask me – I’m not nudging anyone out of the way. I’m on a rota. I write them … Read More

Here & now: Jo Parker

21/02/2020 | Reform

Jo Parker gives a Quaker’s-eye view of the United Reformed Church Youth Assembly

This January, I was a Quaker representative at the United Reformed Church Youth Assembly in Whitemoor Lakes, Staffordshire. I and another Quaker were part of a range … Read More

I am… a street preacher

21/02/2020 | Reform

A street preacher’s story by Maurice Omorojie

Increasing preoccupations with science, technology and humanism have resulted in a societal shift from belief in a supreme being to belief in serendipity and mischance. With this comes a backlash against Christianity. Christians … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: Why fast?

21/02/2020 | Reform

I need to understand the purpose of Lent to model it to my daughter

I have been feeling really challenged by Lent this year, and, in particular, fasting. What is it all about? And why do we do it as … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘January blues have hit’

28/01/2020 | Reform

The January blues hit me early this year – on New Year’s Eve. For the past 30, or even 40 years, we have brought in the new year at my husband’s brother’s home in Lincolnshire. Because the brothers had a … Read More

Here & now: Victoria Turner

24/01/2020 | Reform

Victoria Turner looks at an ecumenical controversy

‘Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptised by one Spirit so as to … Read More