Do stay for tea and coffee: Please welcome

28/08/2018 | Reform

A new column from Paul Kerensa

I’ve hung around after enough church services to know you’ll be waiting a long time for hot chocolate. Tea and coffee is standard – maybe a chocolate biscuit if the children haven’t all thieved … Read More

Reviews – September 2018

28/08/2018 | Reform

Not exactly God’s promise

The Miseducation of Cameron Post Directed by Desiree Akhavan Certificate 15, 91 minutes Released 7 September

Cameron Post (Chloë Grace Moretz) is a sexually active American teenager who, while attending the homecoming ’93 ball, supposedly with … Read More

Together in mission

28/08/2018 | Reform

Collin Cowan, General Secretary of the Council for World Mission, talks to Stephen Tomkins

As General Secretary of the Council for World Mission (CWM), the Revd Dr Collin Cowan leads a partnership between 32 Churches spread across the world from … Read More

My Christian Ramadan

28/08/2018 | Reform

Maggie Hindley spent a month eating nothing during daylight to observe Ramadan with her grandson. The result was a revelation

It’s a bright fresh June morning and it’s Eid. My grandson Muhammad has gone to the mosque for prayers and … Read More

I am… on employment support allowance

28/08/2018 | Reform

Clair Richards on her experience of being on employment support allowance

I worked in a primary school but then I fell in town and I’ve had sciatica, so have been off work. Six months after I’d fallen, they realised I … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘How could I be so blind?’

28/08/2018 | Reform

Sheila Maxey opens her eyes to positive things

It feels as if I am drowning in sad news and sad situations at the moment. A 50-year-old person I know has separated from her partner of 15 years. A 20-something year … Read More