Dame Hilary Blume interview: It’s a gift

27/03/2013 | Reform 1

The charity entrepreneur Dame Hilary Blume talks to Stephen Tomkins

If you’ve ever bought someone a goat for Christmas – or a safe water supply, or clothes for refugees – you have been following in the path of Hilary Blume. … Read More

Chapter and Verse: Luke 10:25-37

27/03/2013 | Reform

The parable of the Good Samaritan will feature in the lectionary on 14 July this year. I am glad I am not scheduled to preach that day! What could there possibly be new to say on such a familiar text? … Read More

Editorial: Resurrection on Epsom Downs

27/03/2013 | Reform

Every Easter when I was a child, we had a sunrise service on Epsom Downs. We heard readings about Mary in the garden and sang Up From The Grave He Arose as day broke.

I’d like to say it was … Read More

Faith in Action: Karen Openshaw

27/03/2013 | Reform

Karen Openshaw, chaplain for the Oasis academy school in Salford, Greater Manchester

I went to a local evangelical church as a child – twice every Sunday. My parents split up when I was 11, and then my mum got cancer, … Read More

Pope for the future?

27/03/2013 | Reform

Two responses to the appointment of Pope Francis

Out with the old and in with the… old” cracked one Vatican watcher on hearing the news of the election of a 76-year-old Argentinian, the first Jesuit and Latin American to ascend … Read More

Letter from a Birmingham Jail

27/03/2013 | Reform

Fifty years ago this month, Martin Luther King led a peaceful demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama. He was jailed, and criticised by white clergy. He wrote his classic response in the margins of a newspaper. This is an extract

I am … Read More