Moving on from the manse

24/01/2020 | Reform 1

Anne Bedford looks at the issues facing ministers who retire after a career in the manse

Moving house can be fraught with delays, abortive offers and poor surveys. Even if all has gone smoothly, there comes the packing and clearing … Read More

HeartEdge

24/01/2020 | Reform

When commerce, culture, compassion and congregational life work together, they enrich a church’s mission. That, says Samuel Wells, is the combination behind the HeartEdge movement

In many ways, St Martin-in-the-Fields would like to be a ‘normal’ church, focused on congregational … Read More

Bring down the walls

24/01/2020 | Reform

In 1957, the Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz (EKP), a German Church, and what is now the United Reformed Church came together in a covenant of fellowship. And more than 60 years later, on the 30th anniversary of the fall of … Read More

Here & now: Victoria Turner

24/01/2020 | Reform

Victoria Turner looks at an ecumenical controversy

‘Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptised by one Spirit so as to … Read More

I am… a vegan

24/01/2020 | Reform 1

Kath Redmond on faith-fuelled veganism

For me – a vegan and a Quaker – veganism is the logical extension of a spiritual way of life devoted to love, peace, nonviolence and social justice. But I am aware that this is … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: What is my calling?

24/01/2020 | Reform

How do I discern my calling?

How do we discern what God is calling us to do? I have been asking friends and acquaintances. How do we decide between what we should do and what we like to do? And, … Read More