Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘Thousands of children at churches across the country could do the same’

28/01/2022 | Reform

Paul Kerensa gulps to see his children acting in church

My children were recently asked to help with the church drama slot. Well, no, they were asked to do the church drama slot. A five-minute sketch on John the Baptist. … Read More

On the pilgrim way ‘Every event which takes place feels like a gift’

28/01/2022 | Reform

Sheila Maxey sees the gift in every event

I don’t usually feel this lighthearted at the beginning of another year. The news is as bad as ever: Omicron rampant and so many people’s Christmas hopes of family meetings or escape … Read More

Here and Now: Naomi Baldwin

28/01/2022 | Reform

Naomi Baldwin is making and unmaking plans

I love Christmas songs. Yes, I know it’s February, but as I write this column, it’s early December, so bear with me. Pop songs, worship songs, hymns and carols. . . they’re all … Read More

I am… a funeral director

28/01/2022 | Reform

Mark Mason tells the funeral director’s story

I got into funeral directing because I wanted something to do while the girls were at nursery. I was at home looking after the children while my wife was working and needed something … Read More

Chapter & verse: Luke 6.27-38

28/01/2022 | Reform

Samantha Sheehan faces the challenge of loving your enemy

‘Love, love, love‘There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done…‘It’s easy‘All you need is love.’

So sang the Beatles in 1967, seeming to suggest that nothing is impossible when done … Read More

A place of belonging

28/01/2022 | Reform

Laurence Wareing visits a week-round café in Farnham, Surrey

To compare a downtown bar in Boston with a church café in the smart Surrey market town of Farnham is perhaps a little leftfield. But fans of the 1980s American sitcom … Read More