Community in bloom

22/04/2016 | Reform

Stan Hazell visits an award-winning gardening project

Walk around the streets surrounding Stand United Reformed Church in Chapelfield, Greater Manchester, and you cannot fail to spot the raised planters, which, from spring to the end of summer, are full of … Read More

“What God might be up to”

22/04/2016 | Reform

Greenbelt Festival and the United Reformed Church are going into partnership for the next two years. It’s a plan involving scrap metal, cake, flash mob liturgy and big questions, as Stephen Tomkins discovers

There are acrobats clambering around a huge … Read More

Learning to grow, growing to learn

22/04/2016 | Reform

Westminster College is expanding into a theological hub

The diggers are back at Westminster College, Cambridge. After a £7m redevelopment project between 2013 and 2014, which transformed the historic building into a modern centre for learning, building work is happening … Read More

Grow towards the light

22/04/2016 | Reform

Your conscience is not just a nagging voice, reflects Jean Vanier, founder of L’Arche,
it is an impulse to grow towards the light

The nature of reality is shared, so we must learn to listen – to the people around us, … Read More

The autistic Bible

27/03/2016 | Reform

Reading about the birth of Moses as an autistic person throws a whole new light on the story, reflects Caroline Henthorne

It is 1970-something and I am a child in a Sunday school class being told the story of the … Read More

Peak pilgrimage

27/03/2016 | Reform

The travel writer Dixe Wills tries Britain’s newest pilgrimage

Sorry, you’ll have to come back over the stepping stones – I forgot to read you what it says in the guide book.”

Carl, a long-suffering soul who serves the twin … Read More