Here & now: Jake Penny

27/09/2019 | Reform

Jake Penny on being welcomed at church

I didn’t have to worry about being turned away when I went into my first church meeting – I am a gay, autistic, mentally ill man. The only thing that made me immediately … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: Tackling my anxiety

27/09/2019 | Reform

‘There is not a clear or helpful conversation about anxiety in the Church’

It seems that since I have stopped buying into making myself a better Christian, I have started to become more whole. I am no longer racing to … Read More

I am… a survivor of economic abuse

27/09/2019 | Reform

A survivor of economic abuse tells her story

In the early years of my marriage, I had not consciously realised that economic abuse was taking place. I believed we had a simple, workable system of managing finances. We opened a … Read More

Chapter & verse: Luke 14:1 and 7-14

27/09/2019 | Reform

Carlton Turner on why you might not want to invite Jesus over for dinner

Mining the context of Jesus’ sharp words in this text (‘For all who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted,’) … Read More

A letter from… the Amazon

27/09/2019 | Reform

Bishop Marinez Bassotto reports from the Amazon

We are facing the worst wave of fires in Brazil in seven years. For weeks, forests and woods have been burning in flames in the northern states, spanning Acre, Pará, Amapá, Amazonas, Rondônia, … Read More

The roots of democracy

27/09/2019 | Reform

Donald Norwood finds the origins of democracy in the Reformed tradition

The September issue of Reform should dispel any idea that ‘religion has nothing to do with politics’. There was ‘A liberal helping’ of Tim Farron MP, another three pages … Read More