In search of Island Chapels

03/06/2024 | Reform

David Gleed explores the spiritual draw of remote islands

Out there, on the horizon, islands beckon, they always do, even on seemingly uninviting, wet, murky days. There’s something mysterious and enchanting about an island, something to be discovered… And getting … Read More

Editorial: Making the effort

03/06/2024 | Reform

As a young teenager – young and clueless – I decided to sell all my Doctor Who stuff and give the money to Tearfund, the Christian charity tackling poverty in the Third World, as we called it then. I felt … Read More

Reviews June 2024

03/06/2024 | Reform

Good stewardship

WildingDirected by David AllenCertificate PG, 75 minutesReleased 14 June

After they inherited Knepp Farm in West Sussex from his parents in the early 1980s, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady Burrell) kept it going for some 17 years … Read More

Art in Focus: June 2024

03/06/2024 | Reform

CaravaggioThe Seven Works of Mercy, 1606Oil on canvasNaples, Pio Monte della Misericordia

In an early episode of the Netflix series Ripley, Tom Ripley gazes enigmatically at Caravaggio’s Seven Works of Mercy. The painting was commissioned as an altarpiece by an … Read More

Preach it!

03/06/2024 | Reform

Lucy Berry is a writer, performance poet and United Reformed Church minister. Stephen Tomkins talked to her following the publication of her book Being a Preacher: Reflections and practical advice on speaking to be heard

How did you come to … Read More

A good question: Does the Church have a problem with class?

03/06/2024 | Reform

One question, four answers

Liz Kam‘Our Church is built on middle-class ideals’

As a Church-Related Community Worker (CRCW), my immediate response is to shout, ‘Yes! Obviously!’Class is a complex issue sociologically, culturally and economically. The nuances involved in how we … Read More