Soul stories: Sian Joyner

02/10/2024 | Reform

Sian Joyner sees disability differently

As I stand under shelter, waiting for a friend for a coffee date, the voice wakes me from a daydream. I think about lecturing them on the figurative nature of the healing stories; I think … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘The suggestion that God takes risks all the time startled me and appealed to me’

02/10/2024 | Reform

‘Precarious’ is a troubling kind of word. I think of a rickety step ladder, or the worrying state of someone’s health, or the position of many a local church. Yet two books I have recently read have used the word … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘We’re trying to take a step back from smartphones – and say hello to dumbphones.’

02/10/2024 | Reform

Be smart, get dumb, says Paul Kerensa

The new academic year has meant an ‘autumn-clean’ of our family’s digital life. Somehow our two children – surely toddlers a minute ago – are now in secondary school. With that jump comes … Read More

Here and now: Charlotte Samson

06/09/2024 | Reform

‘The best part about the URC is that it is made up of great people who make you feel welcome and accepted’

I moved to England from South Africa in 2022 at the age of 14. Moving is very hard, … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Genesis 12:1-9

06/09/2024 | Reform

Meg Warner on a journey with Abram

Many of us know this passage pretty well. The LORD calls Abram to embark on an extraordinary journey – away from his homeland and everything he knows – and to travel to a … Read More

Songs of faith: Stephen Best

06/09/2024 | Reform

Hymn writer Stephen Best talks to Ana Gobledale

Maybe, as he says, it’s a Welsh thing or maybe it’s his poetic gift, but ready-to-sing hymns are arising from the pen of the Revd Stephen Best, part of our United Reformed … Read More