Green and Gold

12/12/2023 | Reform

How Clitheroe URC won the highest award for care of creation

This year, Clitheroe United Reformed Church became the fourth church in the URC and the 35th in all England and Wales to win the Eco Church Gold Award.

Its … Read More

Living in a world of war

12/12/2023 | Reform

If individuals can’t solve the conflicts of a violent world, what can we do? asks Graham Handscomb

How can we deal with war? I don’t mean as a society, or as the international community, but as individuals. And I’m not … 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