Reviews – November 2017

31/10/2017 | Reform

Advent reads

 

 

 

 

 

 

Advent for Everyone: A journey with the apostles / Unearthly Beauty: Through Advent with the saints Tom Wright / Magdalen Smith SPCK, £8.99 each, ISBNs: 9780281078387 and 9780281077182

In Touch with God: Advent meditations on … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: Church stress

30/10/2017 | Reform

Does church have to be so stressful?

I guess I named myself Commitment-Phobe for a reason. I have a restless soul. Having confirmed myself in the Anglican faith, I now want to try out faith at another church or denomination, … Read More

Editorial: The London underground church

30/10/2017 | Reform

With the anniversaries of Luther’s 95 theses and Coltman’s ordination, 2017 has been quite a year for church history – which has to be a good thing in my book. (It’s a church history book.)

Here’s another anniversary I didn’t … Read More

A good question: What makes a disciple?

22/09/2017 | Reform 1

 

As the United Reformed Church prepares for ‘Walking the Way: Living the life of Jesus today’, a renewed emphasis on discipleship, we ask What makes a disciple?

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These are extracts from a longer article that was published in the … Read More

Ninety-five more theses – Part three

22/09/2017 | Reform

We ask 95 opinion formers and opinion holders of today: How should the Church change? The final part of our series marking the 500th anniversary of the Reformation

 

Loraine Mellor, President of the Methodist Conference The Church needs to … Read More

When is a person not a person?

22/09/2017 | Reform

Margie is still Margie. So why, asks Lucy Berry, do people treat her like less of a person when they hear she has early-onset dementia?

When you meet her, you can’t tell that Revd Margie has early-onset dementia. She is … Read More