Here & now: Naomi Baldwin

01/12/2020 | Reform

Let’s find a new now, says Naomi Baldwin

I have, saved on my phone, a quote I come back to time and time again. It’s one of those annoying motivational ones with a blurred image of something completely irrelevant … Read More

I am… a prisoner’s mentor

01/12/2020 | Reform

A story of mentoring after prison

When most people think about volunteering to help others, prisoners aren’t often the ‘others’ they choose. You only have to read the news to discover that most people think prisoners are ‘bad people’ … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘Is this meeting a new kind of witness?’

01/12/2020 | Reform

Sheila Maxey finds hope before lockdown

There is nothing like something new to cheer me up as I begin to face the fact that we might be in this Covid-19 world for a long, long time. In early October, … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: “I’ll be home for Christmas,” so the song goes. Won’t we all?’

01/12/2020 | Reform

Paul Kerensa shares Covid-safe Christmas ideas

A couple of months ago in this column, I asked for your outside-the-box ideas to light up this bleak midwinter. If we can’t sing in church, if the Rule of Six-Geese-a-Laying means no … Read More

Editorial: A sustained assault on democracy

01/12/2020 | Reform

In the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency, there were widely circulated rumours of a dossier of compromising material on him. Such rumours were neither here nor there, one would have thought. Considering what the US public already knew … Read More

News comment: The last Trump?

01/12/2020 | Reform

Donald Norwood considers Christians’ response to Trump

If you try and separate politics and religion, you end up with Trump. Or so it seems to me, after reading Sarah Posner’s Unholy: Why white evangelicals worship at the altar of … Read More