Jesus and… Incarnation

12/12/2023 | Reform

A series on what we have to learn from and about Jesus on a range of subjects. This month, Hannah Fytche on ‘the Word made flesh’

Near where I live there’s a perfect spot from which to watch for kingfishers. … Read More

Reform’s Christmas Charity Guide

12/12/2023 | Reform

As Noddy Holder put it so well in Slade’s 1973 hit ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’: ‘It’s Christmas!’ Fairy lights and mince pies, carols and baubles, jingle and ding dong. Yum! But why be content with merely celebrating and getting stuff, when … Read More

Green and Gold

12/12/2023 | Reform

How Clitheroe URC won the highest award for care of creation

This year, Clitheroe United Reformed Church became the fourth church in the URC and the 35th in all England and Wales to win the Eco Church Gold Award.

Its … Read More

Living in a world of war

12/12/2023 | Reform

If individuals can’t solve the conflicts of a violent world, what can we do? asks Graham Handscomb

How can we deal with war? I don’t mean as a society, or as the international community, but as individuals. And I’m not … Read More

Partners across the ocean

12/12/2023 | Reform 1

The first missionaries to Madagascar in 1818 were from Wales. A group visiting from Wales this year found that relationships between these countries still matter

In July, a group of 11 people from churches around Wales made a two-week visit … Read More

Chapter and Verse: Luke 1:5-38

12/12/2023 | Reform

Joshua Norris surveys different responses to Christ’s birth

When I read Luke’s account of the Christmas story, I find myself fascinated by the assortment of reactions to God’s activity in those days. The angel Gabriel first appears to Zechariah who … Read More