A site for sore eyes

28/08/2015 | Reform

A church’s website can be its noticeboard, its shop window, its communications hub, it’s mission field. How do you make sure it’s doing its job? We asked seven experts for their number one top tip in running an excellent church … Read More

Mission in cyberspace

28/08/2015 | Reform

How should churches be using new media? Geoff Felton surveys the opportunities and risks of electronic mission

Technology is something we cannot avoid and it is changing how we live our lives. A survey by Ofcom in 2014 found that … Read More

Suffer the little children?

28/08/2015 | Reform

A changing mat, wipes and a box of toys… It’s a good start, says Aileen Few, but being a toddler-friendly church goes a bit deeper

On a successful Sunday morning – one where I have managed to get both myself … Read More

A Pope for the planet

28/08/2015 | Reform

David Coleman listens to the primate on the climate

Reading Laudato si in a sitting or two, you have to pinch yourself from time to time to be reminded that this is not actually George MacLeod, founder of the Iona … Read More

Jumble sales of the apocalypse: Typing in tongues

28/08/2015 | Reform

Simon Jenkins experiments in typing in tongues

Having a spare moment in the passenger seat of a car recently, I got ordained on my iPhone. Thanks to the Universal Life Church (motto: “We are all children of the same universe”) … Read More

Chapter and verse: Micah 6:8

28/08/2015 | Reform

David Grosch-Miller discusses the Magna Carta of prophetic writing

“It is not enough to say the right things,
 you have to do the right things”

The Magna Carta of prophetic writing is how this verse has been described. Written some … Read More