Joy to the world

12/12/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa is a stand-up comedian, author, scriptwriter and podcaster. His current podcast is The British Broadcasting Century about the BBC; another is Christmas: What The Falalalala on Audible.

When did you first realise you were funny?I’ve been thinking of … Read More

Partners across the ocean

12/12/2023 | Reform 1

The first missionaries to Madagascar in 1818 were from Wales. A group visiting from Wales this year found that relationships between these countries still matter

In July, a group of 11 people from churches around Wales made a two-week visit … 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

Editorial: Humility and faithfulness

12/12/2023 | Reform

I hear a lot of discussion about the next election: when it will be, how certain a Labour victory is, how large the majority. One question I don’t hear so much is how much difference the result will make either … Read More