Songs of Faith: Susan McCoan

29/01/2025 | Reform

Susan McCoan shares a hymn of discipleship

You may recognise Susan McCoan’s name as the co-editor of the current URC Prayer Handbook, or from her contributions to the URC’s Daily Devotions Sunday Worship. Did you know she also writes … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘Like a kindly earworm, I heard, “The light shines in the darkness”’

29/01/2025 | Reform

I made a resolution at Christmas time – not waiting for the new year. I decided that I would try with renewed effort to find the signs of light and life, and hope lying around me and in the … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘The messages could have been medical, monetary or, er, marital.’

29/01/2025 | Reform

Paul Kerensa learns from a technology fail of excruciating proportions

Enjoy, at my expense, my most embarrassing moment of recent times.

I was booked to perform a comedy show in a church – surely a scene ripe for … Read More

The Colors Within

27/01/2025 | Reform

Directed by Naoko YamadaCertificate U, 101 minutesReleased31 January

This Japanese animated feature opens in a boarding school chapel, in which a teenage girl is praying the Serenity Prayer. In terms of real-life religious faith, this is not particularly … Read More