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

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

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

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

On the pilgrim way: ‘January blues have hit’

28/01/2020 | Reform

The January blues hit me early this year – on New Year’s Eve. For the past 30, or even 40 years, we have brought in the new year at my husband’s brother’s home in Lincolnshire. Because the brothers had a … Read More

Art in focus: February 2020

27/01/2020 | Reform

Die Taufe (The Baptism) Adi Holzer

The Austrian artist Adi Holzer is quoted as saying: ‘The artist has the task of making the invisible visible, to trace the secrets of existence.’ Here, he takes an unusual and uncompromising look at … Read More