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

In the Flesh – Part two: Sex and the Church

01/12/2014 | Reform

In the second of a three-part series to promote discussion on questions about sex and God,
Carla Grosch-Miller explores how Christian teaching has developed over the centuries

Christian tradition has always been intellectually lively and dynamic, forged in argument and wrestling … Read More

Editorial: Nice to be appreciated

01/12/2014 | Reform

In November, I went to the Mission Council of the United Reformed Church. It was supposed to be debating the future of this magazine. The URC publishes Reform and subsidises it, and that commitment was due a review.

After all, Reform … Read More

On the pilgrim way: “Beauty and goodness do not always go together”

01/12/2014 | Reform

Sheila Maxey explores an evil piece of history

In October we spent two glorious weeks in the Swabian Alps in
Germany; it is an area of steep, wooded valleys with castles atop the stony outcrops and picturesque villages. The autumn colours … Read More