A letter from… Konso, Ethiopia

27/05/2014 | Reform

I’m very fortunate that where I grew up is a very green area of Ethiopia – we had rain. My family are small-scale farmers and grow all kinds of cereal crops and peas, and also keep sheep, goats, horses and … Read More

Christian activist: Who is the ransomer?

27/05/2014 | Reform

Alastair McIntosh on the bomb and the Cross

Shortly before Easter, Scottish Christians Against Nuclear Arms stood outside the nuclear submarine base at Faslane, gathered in an act of public worship, a witness for peace. We came from many different … Read More

Chapter & verse: Acts 2:4

27/05/2014 | Reform

A mighty thunder, a rush of wind, the tongues of fire, a huge crowd and a passionate speech resulting in the baptism of 3,000. This was the first Pentecost!

A small band of 120 people attracted 3,000 new members; this … Read More

Niall Cooper: Lets get down to earth

27/05/2014 | Reform

The awful cost of funeral poverty

Funeral poverty is almost too awful to want to think about, but that is exactly what increasing numbers of people are confronted with when loved ones pass away.

When Emma’s partner died at a … Read More

Jumble Sales of the apocalypse: What comedy has to teach us about the Trinity

27/05/2014 | Reform

In the movie Nuns on the Run, Robbie Coltrane and Eric Idle play two bank robbers dressed as nuns – Sisters Euphemia and Inviolata – hiding out in a convent to escape a spot of bother in gangland. They quickly … Read More

Reviews – June 2014

27/05/2014 | Reform

Questions are not enough

Transcendence Directed by Wally Pfister Certificate 12A, 119 minutes Released on 25 April

Sitting recently with a distinguished elderly couple who had just faced the possibility of imminent death, I was struck by how often older … Read More