Reviews – July/August 2016

06/07/2016 | Reform

Sing a new song – to an old tune

Songs to Shake Us Up John Campbell Kevin Mayhew £29.99 (ringbound) ISBN: 9781848678231

Throughout 22 years ministering in urban multicultural settings, John Campbell has written hymns … Read More

Editorial: Scrap the Church?

06/07/2016 | Reform

There are two stories in the Gospels about Jesus visiting places of worship. In the first, they try to kill him; in the second, he trashes the place. What kind of relationship does that suggest between Christ and the Church?

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A good question: How does God speak?

27/05/2016 | Reform

 

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This is an extract from the June 2016 edition of Reform.

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20 Questions: Simon Hughes

27/05/2016 | Reform

Simon Hughes gives 20 answers

Where would you like your mortal remains to go? With mother, father, paternal grandparents and other family in the churchyard of St Twrog, Maentwrog, Meirionnydd.

When did you last pray? Today.

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A letter from… Yola, Nigeria

27/05/2016 | Reform

Anna (not her real name) was one of 276 girls kidnapped from Chibok secondary school in north-east Nigeria by the Islamist group Boko Haram. The girls were enslaved and some of them made to marry members of Boko Haram. Eventually … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Luke 8:26-39

27/05/2016 | Reform

Rosalind Selby considers demons and depression

This tough text is the Gospel reading set for 19 June. Here is Jesus healing a man who lived across the lake in the country of the Gerasenes. The man gives himself the name … Read More