Welcome home?

24/04/2013 | Reform

Discrimination can face us in many ways, in many places. But the first step to tackling it, Mark Argent finds, is to look inside

What does it mean to be welcomed? And what does it mean not to be? While … Read More

Community-minded: Life-affirming celebrations

24/04/2013 | Reform

With such serious economic and social issues to be addressed at the moment, it seems almost heartless to talk about resurrection joy and newness of life. However, we are still in the Easter season, and that is the Gospel message … Read More

On the pilgrim way: Ageing relatives

24/04/2013 | Reform

I am the youngest among all my cousins; and, as I see them up ahead of me in the journey of life, I find myself taking a keen interest in how they are handling growing old. Perhaps I can get … Read More

Niall Cooper: Don’t panic

24/04/2013 | Reform

“Don’t panic! Don’t panic!” Sergeant Jones’ famous refrain would be an apt response to the increasingly strident headlines in recent weeks about the future of the welfare state: “Benefit claimants flooding system”, “The government must reform the welfare state now”, … Read More

A letter from… Bolivia

24/04/2013 | Reform

I travel to the Amazon every six weeks, from the city of La Paz where I live, and it is always an adventure. For seven months of the year the roads are impassable and I travel by river in canoes … Read More

I am damaged goods

24/04/2013 | Reform

What is it like for a teenager to be called “defiled” by the church she loves? Sarah Bessey remembers the pain

I was 19 years old and crazy in love with Jesus when that preacher told an auditorium I was … Read More