Niall Cooper: Faith in the fragments

16/07/2013 | Reform

‘For many, the experience of urban life is shattering’

Fragmentation is increasingly the shared experience of most of us living in urban communities. Manchester, the melting pot of the industrial revolution, is now more fragmented than at any time in … Read More

Notes from a dark place

16/07/2013 | Reform

How learning to let go allowed me to live again by Anonymous

I seriously thought about killing him. I quickly realised I never would, but only because I wouldn’t get away with it.

How I hated going to bed. As … Read More

People like us

16/07/2013 | Reform

We did it in private. Didn’t we? It seemed easy to conceal. We regretted it, because we were caught and shamed.

Part of us disliked what we were doing, but another part dived in.

We broke the law, but in … Read More

Simon Jenkins: Mechanical martyrs

16/07/2013 | Reform

Even though I’ve been a Christian for several centuries (well, so it sometimes seems) I must confess I’ve never seen a saint smacking himself on the nose with a crucifix before. It happened to me last week when I went … Read More

Christian activist: We must stop eating like this

16/07/2013 | Reform

Dixe Wills presents the challenge of veganism

How risky is your life? Do you sometimes cross the road just after the green man has turned red? Or perhaps you get your thrills from drilling holes in walls without first checking … Read More

God gives birth

16/07/2013 | Reform

How becoming a mother gave Veronica Zundel new insights into the motherhood of God

I had a long, distressing stay in hospital after giving birth – “Hell on the fifth floor” as my husband Ed called it. When I was … Read More