Don’t call us missing

28/01/2022 | Reform

Victoria Turner calls on the Church to listen seriously to younger voices

There is a growing amount of literature on the subject of reconciliation across the generations in the Church. With a lot of this scholarship, however, I have found … Read More

The churches that make us: Chapel on the Hill, Sedlescombe

28/01/2022 | Reform

In the first of a new series covering the breadth of churches in the URC, Reform visits Sedlescombe, East Sussex

It’s all been God-led,’ says Marie Jackson. ‘We didn’t plan to do it at all.’ She and her husband Peter … Read More

A place of belonging

28/01/2022 | Reform

Laurence Wareing visits a week-round café in Farnham, Surrey

To compare a downtown bar in Boston with a church café in the smart Surrey market town of Farnham is perhaps a little leftfield. But fans of the 1980s American sitcom … Read More

Chapter & verse: Luke 6.27-38

28/01/2022 | Reform

Samantha Sheehan faces the challenge of loving your enemy

‘Love, love, love‘There’s nothing you can do that can’t be done…‘It’s easy‘All you need is love.’

So sang the Beatles in 1967, seeming to suggest that nothing is impossible when done … Read More

I am… a funeral director

28/01/2022 | Reform

Mark Mason tells the funeral director’s story

I got into funeral directing because I wanted something to do while the girls were at nursery. I was at home looking after the children while my wife was working and needed something … Read More

Here and Now: Naomi Baldwin

28/01/2022 | Reform

Naomi Baldwin is making and unmaking plans

I love Christmas songs. Yes, I know it’s February, but as I write this column, it’s early December, so bear with me. Pop songs, worship songs, hymns and carols. . . they’re all … Read More