Growing pains

24/04/2013 | Reform

However much we disagree on how to achieve it, politicians promise the same thing – an economy that grows and grows forever. Jill Segger doesn’t buy it

We do not live by bread alone, nor can we live without it. … Read More

Welcome home?

24/04/2013 | Reform

Discrimination can face us in many ways, in many places. But the first step to tackling it, Mark Argent finds, is to look inside

What does it mean to be welcomed? And what does it mean not to be? While … Read More

I am damaged goods

24/04/2013 | Reform

What is it like for a teenager to be called “defiled” by the church she loves? Sarah Bessey remembers the pain

I was 19 years old and crazy in love with Jesus when that preacher told an auditorium I was … Read More

A good question? Is God nice?

24/04/2013 | Reform

Each month we ask one question, and get four answers. This month: God is good; God is great; but… Is God nice?

 

 

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This article was published in the May 2013 edition of  Reform.

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The iron Bible

24/04/2013 | Reform

Two responses to the death of Margaret Thatcher

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Teaching God to dance

27/03/2013 | Reform

When I was a girl in Magdala my mother told me ancient stories of God and my people, the Jews. One began like this: “And it happened after these things that God tested Abraham. And he said to him: ‘Abraham!’ … Read More