Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I found a YouTube channel with roller coasters and my kids took turns sitting in a laundry basket’

26/06/2023 | Reform 1

Paul Kerensa takes a Youtube roller coaster

Going anywhere nice on your holidays? Some years we take more trips than others, so this is what our summer hols looked like a couple of years back, during that oh-so-brief umpteen-week period … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘We stood quietly, craning our necks’

26/06/2023 | Reform

Sheila Maxey learns lessons from the birds

As 8 July – the date of the closing service for Brentwood United Reformed Church – approaches I seem to become more and more detached, at least on the surface. Last Sunday, my … Read More

Here and now: Reuben Watt

26/06/2023 | Reform

Reuben Watt is touched by Palestinian generosity

In May, Jo Harris and I, two former URC Youth Assembly Moderators, were given the incredible opportunity to head out to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory with Christian Aid. This was part … Read More

Chapter & verse: Exodus 1:17

26/06/2023 | Reform

Phil Wall on the defiance of the Hebrew midwives

I was just six years old when my part in our church’s production of Moses and the Burning Bush gave me a lifelong love for the theatre. I played the role … Read More

All are welcome? Dementia care

26/06/2023 | Reform

Do churches welcome those with dementia?

I wonder what feeling genuinely welcome means to you. This month, I have been speaking with a churchgoer whose wife lives with Alzheimer’s and experiences the dementia group of symptoms. He attends a church … Read More

Welcome strangers

26/06/2023 | Reform

Emily Shepherd introduces the Welcome Network

Refugees and people seeking asylum have been right at the top of the news agenda recently. With church leaders and football pundits alike wading into debates over national policy, sometimes it can feel like … Read More