Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘We’re not chasing bears, we’re chasing prayers’

21/02/2020 | Reform

Paul Kerensa is on the hunt for prayers

Every now and then, in our church, I do the prayers. I mean, they ask me – I’m not nudging anyone out of the way. I’m on a rota. I write them … Read More

Editorial: The hand of God?

21/02/2020 | Reform

This week – as I write – in 1945, the place where I work was hit by a V2 flying bomb. The rocket directly hit a three-storey house; and, as well as neighbouring houses, the blast wrecked Presbyterian Church House, … Read More

Reviews – March 2020

21/02/2020 | Reform

Tramps like us

RunDirected by Scott GrahamCertificate 15, 77 minutesReleased 13 March

Finnie (Mark Stanley) hates his job in a fish factory in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. He and his wife Katie (Amy Manson) have Springsteen’s legend ‘Born to Run’ tattooed on … Read More

Who’s afraid of the Old Testament?

21/02/2020 | Reform

Meg Warner suggests ten reasons to dust off the Bible Jesus read

Are you a New Testament person or an Old Testament person? Yes, there really are two types! If you are an Old Testament person, you’ll know what I’m … Read More

The bigger Mersey Miracle

21/02/2020 | Reform

Ecumenical collaboration in 1980s Liverpool has been justly celebrated, but there was more to the story than often reported. Andrew Bradstock fills in the gaps

Think of Liverpool in the 1980s and several images come to mind. Unrest in Toxteth. … Read More

Voices from the Holy Land: Part two

21/02/2020 | Reform

Last autumn, representatives of the United Reformed Church visited Israel and Palestine, with an aim to promote awareness, prayer and solidarity. Charissa King shares stories from some of the people they met

Nael Abu Rahmoun Nazareth

I have four … Read More