Chapter & verse: Joshua 4

01/12/2014 | Reform

Neil Thorogood finds layered meaning in stories of stones

Sometimes we stand where history was made: The churning memory of war remembered on Normandy’s beaches; the horror brought home following the railway tracks that lead into Auschwitz-Birkenau; the cost made … Read More

Christian Activist: Churches against Ebola

01/12/2014 | Reform

Some of West Africa’s poorest countries are facing national emergencies as they wrestle with the Ebola outbreak which has claimed more than 5,000 lives. Ebola is making orphans, severely stretching local health services, hitting the national economies hard, and putting … Read More

A letter from… Luhe, China

01/12/2014 | Reform

Jimmy Lam reports on Christmas in rural China

Christmas in the rural communities of Luhe reminds me of Psalm 96:12: “Let the field exult, and everything in it! Then shall all the trees of the forest sing for joy.” The … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: A Christian Christmas

01/12/2014 | Reform

“Reading the Bible, I’ve started to feel like
 I am hanging out with an old friend”

Having decided to move on from atheism, Commitment-Phobe is on a search for God

This year I face the question: What is Christmas about … Read More

Delivering hope

01/12/2014 | Reform

Four Kenyan women benefitting from Christian Aid’s maternal and child health programme 
share their stories. Photographs by Matthew Gonzalez-Noda

Four women in Narok County, Kenya, talk about how giving birth has changed since the maternal health project there renovated their … Read More

“All of one size”: Deaths, births and marriages

01/12/2014 | Reform

Why same-sex marriage should not divide the Church, by Alan Sell

… Though a man may be poor and in tatters and rags, We know that we ought not deride, But remember the adage, we’ve all got … Read More