Hope and clouds

24/10/2014 | Reform

John Ellis finds troubles and success stories in El Salvador

Have you heard the one about the archbishop, the terrorist and the pineapple? No? Then read on… Commitment for Life is one of the United Reformed Church’s success stories. By … Read More

Stories from stone

24/10/2014 | Reform 1

Churches and schools have found a powerful way to commemorate the First World War – by
 taking the bare names on war memorials and discovering the life stories behind them

Is there a way to remember the momentous events of … Read More

Skin Conditioned

25/09/2014 | Reform

It’s the colour of privilege and power, so what makes white the hardest colour for white people to see? Michael Jagessar and John Campbell call for a guerrilla war of the mind against imperial theology

For hundreds of years, one … Read More

Introducing… Julian of Norwich

25/09/2014 | Reform

In this occasional feature, a contemporary writer introduces a classic thinker.
 This month: David Cornick on Julian of Norwich

Transparency, equality and ecology are amongst the preoccupations of our time; it is because she speaks to each of them that … Read More

Grow old with me

25/09/2014 | Reform

Keith Forecast comes to terms with later life

I am in my 80th year; I seem to have got there rather sooner than I expected. Old age, I always thought, was for other people, not for me; but time passes … Read More

The bonus years

25/09/2014 | Reform

Is the Church fulfilling its duty to people in later life? And is it receiving what older people have to offer? Sheila Maxey reflects on ripe years

Those over 70 have been granted extra time beyond the biblical “three score … Read More