Art in focus: December 2019/January 2020

27/12/2019 | Reform

Journey of the Magi (detail) Basilica Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, mosaic

Did you send a Christmas card featuring three kings, with crowns, riding on camels against a night sky in which a special star is glinting? Lots of people did. But because … Read More

Chapter & verse: Luke 10:25-37

22/11/2019 | Reform

Richard Reddie hears the call to be a good neighbour

The Voice newspaper – which carries information and news resonating with Britain’s black community – recently had a feature on the Trinidadian-British actor, Rudolph Walker, who had just turned 80. … Read More

I am… a farmer

22/11/2019 | Reform

John Plumb on faith and farming

In early December, coachloads of year two children arrive on the farm to celebrate the birth of Jesus. As part of ‘Journey to the Stable’ – an initiative of Churches Together in Coleshill, Warwickshire … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: God’s whispers

22/11/2019 | Reform

Am I hearing God’s whispers?

We were reading some Greek myths with my daughter this week. We love them, she loves them. There is the one about Prometheus stealing the gift of fire and being punished for it. My husband … Read More

Here & now: Diana Paulding

22/11/2019 | Reform

Diana Paulding visits Hebron

Standing on the corner of a street in Hebron (pictured), the Palestinian activist Issa Amro told us that we had more rights than him in his hometown. Our British passports meant that we could follow the … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘God has lifted my spirits’

22/11/2019 | Reform

The God of surprises has recently given me new hope, in unexpected places. I recently went, rather unwillingly, to our local Labour Party selection meeting, to choose our parliamentary candidate. We are a safe Conservative seat, so for Labour it … Read More