Editorial: In the bookshop

26/08/2016 | Reform

You’re in a Victorian bookshop (or if you’re not, just pretend you are). While browsing for something to read on your next stagecoach journey, you come across The Duty and Obligation of the Christian Minister by the Revd Frederick de … Read More

Interview: women will raise their voices

19/08/2016 | Reform

Esther Mombo is one of Africa’s foremost theologians and a formidable campaigner for gender equality. Despite some signs of change, she remains severely critical of patriarchal attitudes among Church leaders – attitudes that continue to foster discrimination and the oppression … Read More

Interview: 1517 and all that

06/07/2016 | Reform

Historian and TV presenter Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Stephen Tomkins

Five centuries ago next year, a teacher at an obscure university in Wittenberg, Germany, hung 95 discussion starters on the church door for his students on the subject of the … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Luke 7:34

06/07/2016 | Reform

Jack Dyce enjoys table fellowship

The 1987 film Babette’s Feast, based on a short novel by Karen Blixen, is a visual delight. Babette, a former chef at the renowned Café Anglais in Paris, having taken refuge with two sisters in … Read More

A letter from… Idomeni, Greece

06/07/2016 | Reform

Dimitris Boukis reports on how Greek Christians are welcoming refugees

The Evangelical Church of Greece has been involved with refugees since February 2015. We’ve had a guest house and soup kitchen for immigrants since 1994. Two days a week we … Read More

Jumble sales of the apocalypse: Could an android be baptised, or ordained?

06/07/2016 | Reform

When robots come to church

One of the great theological questions I never got answered when I was in Sunday school was: “How does Jesus get my collection money?” The question arose whenever I put a couple of warm pennies … Read More