A letter from… Uror, South Sudan

25/09/2014 | Reform

A Tearfund representative invites us to meet the children of Uror, South Sudan

“Look at these faces,” I thought, when I arrived in Uror county, South Sudan, last year. “These children are smiling from ear to ear! Yet, you look … Read More

Chapter and Verse: Matthew 22:15-22

25/09/2014 | Reform

Rosalind Selby looks at paying and repaying

The imperial tax debated in this passage was paid on agricultural yield and personal property; it
had been collected on the basis of census registration since Judea came under Roman rule in 6/7CE, and … Read More

Jumble sales of the apocalypse: Gideons Bibles

25/09/2014 | Reform

Simon Jenkins turns to the Gideons Bible

I didn’t know that Gideons Bibles – the ones you find in hotel rooms – are colour-coded, just like tube lines and Daleks. There are red Bibles for school pupils; orange for the … Read More

A good question: Should the Church of England be disestablished?

25/09/2014 | Reform 1

Each month we ask one question and get four answers. This month: Disestablishmentarianism

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This article was published in the October 2014 edition of  Reform.

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Niall Cooper: The expendable poor

25/09/2014 | Reform

Poverty in Africa and the UK are more similar than we think

What images come to mind when you think of poverty in Africa? Now, ask the same for poverty closer to home: What do you picture when you … Read More

Grow old with me

25/09/2014 | Reform

Keith Forecast comes to terms with later life

I am in my 80th year; I seem to have got there rather sooner than I expected. Old age, I always thought, was for other people, not for me; but time passes … Read More