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

Jesus and… Incarnation

12/12/2023 | Reform

A series on what we have to learn from and about Jesus on a range of subjects. This month, Hannah Fytche on ‘the Word made flesh’

Near where I live there’s a perfect spot from which to watch for kingfishers. … Read More

Reform’s Christmas Charity Guide

12/12/2023 | Reform

As Noddy Holder put it so well in Slade’s 1973 hit ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’: ‘It’s Christmas!’ Fairy lights and mince pies, carols and baubles, jingle and ding dong. Yum! But why be content with merely celebrating and getting stuff, when … Read More

Jesus and… healing

30/10/2023 | Reform

A series about what we have to learn from and about Jesus on a range of subjects. This month, Viv Henderson looks at healing

There is no getting away from the fact that healing was an integral part of Jesus’ … Read More

When does worship become performance?

30/10/2023 | Reform

Barbara Bennett tries to tell the difference

If for any reason I do not go to church on Sunday I can’t orientate my week. That act of getting together with others to worship God is my anchor – it sets … Read More

How to be a saint: take the initiative

30/10/2023 | Reform

How and why was Saint Andrew claimed as Scotland’s national protector? asks Laurence Wareing

Of Great Britain’s national patron saints, Andrew is the only first-generation apostle. Originally a fisherman from Galilee, it is in the Gospels that Andrew is seen … Read More