The Colors Within

27/01/2025 | Reform

Directed by Naoko YamadaCertificate U, 101 minutesReleased31 January

This Japanese animated feature opens in a boarding school chapel, in which a teenage girl is praying the Serenity Prayer. In terms of real-life religious faith, this is not particularly odd; yet … Read More

The Changed Heart of the General Secretary

27/11/2024 | Reform

Victoria Turner considers Bernard Thorogood and the restructuring of the Council for World Mission

There are big benefits to studying recent history. You can see, very clearly, the present-day consequences of the decisions made in the time that you’re studying. … Read More

A good question: Where is America now?

27/11/2024 | Reform

One question, four answers

Karen Georgia Thompson‘The call to follow Jesus invites risk’

The aftermath of the presidential elections in the United States left a mixture of emotions and responses to the election of former President Donald Trump as the … Read More

Living Reconciliation

27/11/2024 | Reform

Jenny Mills introduces a programme to help churches live with difference

Differences in outlook, understanding and convictions are a normal part of church life. They can give rise to conflict and tension, and these are a normal part of church … Read More

Dispatches from CRE

27/11/2024 | Reform

The URC once again took a stall to the Christian Resources Exhibition in October. Andy Jackson, the URC’s Head of Communications, reports – and asks other exhibitors for their thoughts

In the mid-1990s, the United Reformed Church’s presence at the … Read More

Community Project Awards: When I needed a neighbour

27/11/2024 | Reform

Everyone wins when church and community work with each other, Laurence Wareing finds

As well as the winners of the URC’s 2024 Community Project Awards (profiled in the last three issues of Reform), three other projects also benefited from a … Read More