Songs of faith: Isaac Watts

03/07/2024 | Reform

In a new column on hymn writers, Ana Gobledale reveals Isaac Watts’ inspiration

When young Isaac Watts was scolded for speaking in rhyme, he smartly replied,‘Oh, Father, do some pity take,and I will no more verses make.’

Watts … Read More

Editorial: Politics

03/07/2024 | Reform

I remember as a child in the 1970s, sitting unstrapped in the back seat of the car, with the radio playing the Today programme, asking my mum what the government was. She said it was a man who runs … Read More

Reviews July/August 2024

03/07/2024 | Reform

Muslim limbo

ShaydaDirected by Noora NiasariCertificate 15, 117 minutesReleased 19 July

An Iranian woman, Shayda (Zar Amir Ebrahimi from Holy Spider), is staying with her young daughter Mona (Selina Zahednia) in a woman’s refuge house in Brisbane run … Read More

A good question: How should Christians decide who to vote for?

03/07/2024 | Reform

One question, four answers

Chine McDonald‘Think of the needs of others’

There will be many Christians who take to the polls thinking that they are voting as Jesus would vote, but the reality is they may never have … Read More

Jesus and… the margins

03/07/2024 | Reform

A series on what we have to learn from and about Jesus on a range of subjects. This month, Alex Clare-Young on people on the margins

Why? That is often the question asked by those among whom I minister … Read More

Loving Luggage

03/07/2024 | Reform

Craftivist Sarah Corbett describes how to make luggage tags to encourage fellow travellers to think beyond faceless statistics

Craftivism, explains Sarah Corbett, author of The Craftivist Collective Handbook and How to Be a Craftivist, is using things such as … Read More