All are welcome? Singleness & asexuality

01/11/2022 | Reform

In a new column Alex Clare-Young speaks to a range of people from around the URC about their experiences of church and what welcome might feel like, for them

I wonder what feeling genuinely welcome means to you. In this … Read More

Chapter & verse: Matthew 14:16

01/11/2022 | Reform

Emmanuel Frimpong on the feeding of the five thousand

Hunger can cause people to act in strange ways. This concept was depicted in Esau’s behaviour when his hunger caused him to sell his birth-right to his younger brother Jacob.

In … Read More

The churches that make us: Oakshaw Trinity

01/11/2022 | Reform

A series covering the breadth of church life in the United Reformed Church. This month, Reform visits Paisley

Climb the tower of Oakshaw Trinity Church in Paisley and you find yourself at the highest point of the entire town. If … Read More

What I saw in Hebron

01/11/2022 | Reform

Maggie Hindley reports on a month in Palestine

The last thing I did before retiring as a minister in 2017 was take a sabbatical trip to South Africa. There, after I’d spent time with people who had been involved in … Read More

A good question: Should we stay with Monarchy?

01/11/2022 | Reform

One question, four answers

ALAN PATERSON‘No family should have to live in a goldfish bowl’

The liberation of the Stone of Scone from Westminster Abbey in 1950 was an early, amusing royal memory of my childhood, as were the cries … Read More

Remembering God’s smuggler

01/11/2022 | Reform

The adventures of Brother Andrew were an inspiration to young Christians, says Laurence Wareing

For many who grew up in the 1970s, the story of ‘God’s smuggler’ made being a young Christian cool. In the bestselling biography of that name, … Read More