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

Me and Jesus and Trump

29/01/2025 | Reform

A faith that can respond to the news needs to be more than individual,argues Donald W Norwood

President Donald Trump is a Christian! Some readers might challenge the statement; his supporters in America take it for granted. No one ever … Read More

The Changed Heart of the General Secretary

27/11/2024 | Reform

Victoria Turner considers Bernard Thorogood and the restructuring of the Council for World Mission

There are big benefits to studying recent history. You can see, very clearly, the present-day consequences of the decisions made in the time that you’re studying. … Read More

Healing the nation

27/11/2024 | Reform

Francis Collins led the US response to the Covid pandemic. Now, he tells Stephen Tomkins, he is searching for the cure for polarisation

Francis Collins is one of America’s leading public scientists. He led the Human Genome Project, the largest … Read More