Talking to a generation

28/02/2024 | Reform

Samantha Sheehan looks at how churches can engage with 18-25-year-olds

It’s the ultimate question for the Church: how do we engage with 18-25-year-olds?..

Samantha Sheehan is a special-category minister exploring how congregations can engage with 18-25-year-olds. She is available to … Read More

Jesus and… his biographers

28/02/2024 | Reform

Susan Durber on what we learn from four different lives of Jesus

At the heart of Christian faith is the compelling story of Jesus of Nazareth. Christianity is not abstract, but begins with the story of a person….

Susan Durber … Read More

The kindness of strangers

28/02/2024 | Reform

Colin Thompson tells the remarkable story of a Jewish girl saved from Czechoslovakia in 1939

My mother, Hertha, celebrated her 100th birthday on 17 July last year. The story of how she came to be in this country at all … Read More

A good question: Christianity: Left? Right?Neutral?

28/02/2024 | Reform

One question, four answers

Peter Knowles‘Identifying faith with party is too easy’

It is wildly obvious to most writers for this magazine, and preachers and prayer writers in our tradition, that Christianity leans to the left….

Peter Knowles is a … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘A wide-eyed student asked, “Do you know Jesus?” It was a bold opener’

28/02/2024 | Reform

Paul Kerensa is forced to question his belief

Whenever I walk through London with time to spare, I’m inevitably drawn to old buildings, especially old churches…

Paul Kerensa is author of So a Comedian Walks into a Church (DLT) and … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘It seems such a trivial disability when I think of others who are in their 80s’

28/02/2024 | Reform

Sheila Maxey is missing her knitting

I am currently disabled. Not that you would notice….

Sheila Maxey is a member of Ingatestone United Reformed Church, Essex

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This is an extract from an article published in the March … Read More