When is a person not a person?

22/09/2017 | Reform

Margie is still Margie. So why, asks Lucy Berry, do people treat her like less of a person when they hear she has early-onset dementia?

When you meet her, you can’t tell that Revd Margie has early-onset dementia. She is … Read More

Ninety-five more theses – Part three

22/09/2017 | Reform

We ask 95 opinion formers and opinion holders of today: How should the Church change? The final part of our series marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation

 

Loraine Mellor, President of the Methodist Conference The Church needs to … Read More

Sex, drugs, Jesus and alcohol

22/09/2017 | Reform

What do young people need from churches? Simon Edwards reflects

Sex, drugs, Jesus and alcohol are the main topics we have discussed with a small but growing group of young people between 12 and 16 years old who meet every … Read More

How to find funds and make diamonds

22/09/2017 | Reform

Are you putting off an outreach project for lack of funds? You don’t have to, says Sam Healey

We had been playing Trivial Pursuit for several hours. My next-door neighbour and I had collected all of the coloured segments and … Read More

The Constance Coltman century

25/08/2017 | Reform

This year, as well as being a major anniversary for the Reformation, marks a century since the ordination of the first female minister in Britain. Kirsty Thorpe looks back in celebration

Constance Todd was ordained at a dark moment during … Read More

In the footsteps of Constance Coltman

25/08/2017 | Reform 1

Wendy Williams was ordained exactly 43 years after Constance Coltman. Even then, becoming a minister was not easy for a woman

I have a special reason to celebrate the centenary of Constance Coltman’s ordination on 17 September: I was ordained … Read More