‘Bonkers but beautiful’

29/04/2019 | Reform

Caroline Andrews on being the minister of a tourist attraction

The building of Saltaire United Reformed Church is like a folly – bonkers but beautiful. Saltaire is a Unesco World Heritage site, an industrial village built by the mill … Read More

Tell your church building’s story

29/04/2019 | Reform

It’s time for churches to tell their story, says Valerie Jenkins

In 2020, we celebrate the 400th anniversary of the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers, when Congregational Christians escaped persecution in England by sailing to the New World. It … Read More

Under the sign of a joke

01/04/2019 | Reform

Simon Jenkins on the horror and humour of the Passion

In a bare room, at the end of a rope suspended from the ceiling, a man is hanging upside down, his wrists tightly bound, his hair brushing the floorboards … Read More

Look to the skies

01/04/2019 | Reform

How tragedy was averted, by plane

In 2013, 23-year-old Elizita Cardoso, a young mother in Suai, Timor-Leste (formerly known as East Timor) was looking forward to the arrival of twins. Her feelings of joy turned to fear when she … Read More

Ministerial stress and how to beat it

01/04/2019 | Reform

Why is being a minister so stressful? And what can we do about it? Rodger Charlton has a diagnosis and remedy

Stress affects everyone, in all walks of life, but there are particular reasons why ministers experience it. They … Read More

In this together

01/04/2019 | Reform

Churches in Bristol are working with local government and businesses to tackle deprivation. Stan Hazell reports

Can churches work in partnership with the secular world to tackle social deprivation? At a time of austerity and council budget cuts that … Read More