Editorial: 100 not out

27/01/2023 | Reform

Only a couple of months ago at Reform, we were celebrating our 50th anniversary. This month, it’s a rather more personal milestone: this is the 100th issue of the magazine I have produced as Editor.

On the one hand, realising … Read More

Partners in Mission

27/01/2023 | Reform

In a new series, Ana Gobledale meets the URC’s partners in international mission. First, So-Young Jung from South Korea

When I became a ‘missionary’ in 1983, I refused to use the word because all I could picture was a stern … Read More

Tending the vineyard

27/01/2023 | Reform

Three ‘Jubilee questions’ posed by the URC’s Church Life Review Group received a wide range of responses, says Lindsey Sanderson

The Church Life Review Group was set up by the URC’s Mission Council in March 2021, following discussion about the … Read More

How a church can reach further

27/01/2023 | Reform

A small church is having a big impact through community partnerships, finds Stephen Tomkins

Ten years ago, Roker United Reformed Church, Sunderland, had a Church-Related Community Worker, Helen Stephenson. She saw that the congregation was already engaged with the community … Read More

Views of the Holy Land

27/01/2023 | Reform

In November, an ecumenical interfaith group visited Israel/Palestine to learn about the struggles and hopes of its people, led by the Council for Christians and Jews. The group included members from the United Reformed Church, the Church of England, Baptists, … Read More

Jesus and… the Spirit

27/01/2023 | Reform

A new series learning from the life and teaching of Jesus. First up, John Proctor looks at Jesus and the Spirit

Jesus was not alone. He was attuned. He was accompanied. He was assured, inspired, empowered and enabled. People noticed, … Read More