Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘What if this is the time it doesn’t work’

24/01/2020 | Reform

Paul Kerensa sings the praises of the wired microphone

I try not to be too opinionated. I’m a tolerant, peacekeeping person. But now and then, that tolerance is tested. Especially as a performer. I normally keep my controversial opinion hidden, … Read More

Chapter and verse: Mark 12:1-12

24/01/2020 | Reform

Eve Parker finds class conflict in Jesus’ vineyard parable

Welcome to 2020 Britain. Although, one could easily confuse it with that of a Dickensian novel, where the rich landowners plant their vineyards and expand their property portfolios while the poor … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: What is my calling?

24/01/2020 | Reform

How do I discern my calling?

How do we discern what God is calling us to do? I have been asking friends and acquaintances. How do we decide between what we should do and what we like to do? And, … Read More

I am… a vegan

24/01/2020 | Reform 1

Kath Redmond on faith-fuelled veganism

For me – a vegan and a Quaker – veganism is the logical extension of a spiritual way of life devoted to love, peace, nonviolence and social justice. But I am aware that this is … Read More

Here & now: Victoria Turner

24/01/2020 | Reform

Victoria Turner looks at an ecumenical controversy

‘Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptised by one Spirit so as to … Read More

Bring down the walls

24/01/2020 | Reform

In 1957, the Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz (EKP), a German Church, and what is now the United Reformed Church came together in a covenant of fellowship. And more than 60 years later, on the 30th anniversary of the fall of … Read More