Niall Cooper: How to meet the reality of poverty

27/02/2017 | Reform

When you think about poverty, who do you think about? Poverty is not an abstract concept – something affecting people far away. But for some reason, we struggle to ‘see’ poverty close to home.

Fiction has a certain power. The … Read More

Chapter & verse: Mark 13:14-23

27/02/2017 | Reform

Catherine Lewis-Smith unpacks Jesus’ teaching on refugees

One of the privileges of my ministry is working with asylum seekers who are sent to live in our little town while the Home Office considers whether or not they have the right … Read More

Hope TV

27/02/2017 | Reform

Christian broadcasters in the Middle East are responding to violence with a message of hope and forgiveness

‘I’m sick of blood,’ an Istanbul nightclub owner told Turkey’s Hurriyet newspaper after a terrorist gunned down 39 partygoers on New Year’s Eve. … Read More

Doing good and doing God

27/02/2017 | Reform

How has UK Christianity changed in the last ten years, and what does this teach us about the future? Nick Spencer reflects on Theos thinktank’s first decade

It’s the kind of question you can’t help but ask yourself at a … Read More

20 Questions: Philip Yancey

27/02/2017 | Reform

Author Phlip Yancey gives 20 answers

Are things getting better or worse? Be serious: Syria, Brexit, the Middle East, North Korea, Donald Trump. Would anyone answer ‘better’?

Where would you like your mortal remains to go? Long ago, when we … Read More

Reviews – March 2017

27/02/2017 | Reform

Meet our radical forebears

The Leveller Revolution John Rees Verso £25 (hardback) ISBN: 9781784783884

 

Historians have long debated the significance of the Levellers’ contribution to the English revolution. In this meticulous, thoroughly researched book (it has grown out … Read More