Andrew Irvine on Everest

11/03/2025 | Reform

Will we finally find out if this worshipper at Trinity, Birkenhead, reached the peak of Everest in 1924? John Blease tells the story

The recent finding on Mount Everest of a boot and a sock belonging to the mountaineer Andrew … Read More

Tracing the triangle

29/01/2025 | Reform

Geoff Felton takes a sabbatical journey of faith and hope

Sabbaticals are a gift to ministers in the United Reformed Church. They come every ten years to help minsters rest, reflect, pray and seek God. They consist of taking three … Read More

Unsafe places

29/01/2025 | Reform

In the first of two articles following the Makin Report into abuse in the Church of England, a survivor of church-based abuse responds

When I hear yet another story of senior clergy and church leaders covering up appalling, unthinkable abuse … Read More

300 years of worship in Chesham

29/01/2025 | Reform

Heather Al-Jawad looks back with thanks

The 17th century had seen a lot of changes in religious life in England. The Church of England had established its supremacy in the country, but Nonconformists, who did not hold with the monarch … Read More

Sharing services

29/01/2025 | Reform

How can the work of local churches be made more manageable? Myles Dunnett gives an update on the Church Life Review

How could a URC-wide shared services portal work? That was the question addressed by the latest event in the … Read More

Isaac Watts at 350

29/01/2025 | Reform

Joan McGavin looks at how the hymnwriter’s place of birth marked his 350th throughout last year

Last year was the 350th anniversary of the birth of Isaac Watts in Southampton, and a number of events, long in the planning, took … Read More