Niall Cooper: Hopes and hardships

20/11/2012 | Reform

Are you looking forward to the New Year with a feeling of foreboding or a spirit of hope and optimism?

To be sure, there are many reasons to feel hopeless as we enter 2013: The continuing threat of unchecked climate … Read More

Single Mum: Hymn-singing

20/11/2012 | Reform

I grew up with hymns. I learned to bellow Away in a Manger at about the same age that I memorised Twinkle Twinkle, Little Star – and probably, at that age, they made similar sense. My mother and grandmother used … Read More

Chapter & Verse: John 1: 1-14

20/11/2012 | Reform

There are some passages that never fail to give me goosebumps, however many times I hear them read, and none succeeds more than hearing the prologue to John’s gospel in a candle-lit church at Christmas. John evokes the awesome power, … Read More

Operation restore hope

20/11/2012 | Reform

Claire Smith reports from Bethlehem, where a project for children aims to sow seeds of hope among a generation growing up amid crisis and despair

The place of Jesus’ birth is today a place of unemployment and poverty, where the … Read More

Reviews – December 2012/January 2013

20/11/2012 | Reform

From “lost boy” to Olympic athlete

Running for my Life Lopez Lomong Thomas Nelson Publishers £10.99

News stories come and go, and are all too soon forgotten. But for some people involved, lives are changed forever. This book brings to … Read More

Scandal of hunger

20/11/2012 | Reform

Andrew Hogg explains why development agencies are demanding changes to the systems that exacerbate hunger in a world of plenty

The word “agflation” – a new addition to the English language – not only looks and sounds distinctly unprepossessing, it … Read More