A good question: Etes-vous Charlie?

24/02/2015 | Reform

Each month we ask one question and get four answers. This month, after protesters and politicians expressed solidarity with the cartoonists killed in Paris with the slogan “Je suis Charlie”, we ask: Are you Charlie?

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There for me

24/02/2015 | Reform

Madeleine Davies remembers the help she received after she lost her mother at the age of 12

Mothers who die young, leaving behind small children, are quite common in literature. I grew up reading Anne of Green Gables and What … Read More

A Bleak Hat

24/02/2015 | Reform

A poem by Lucy Berry

“Doctors have performed the first organ transplants from a newborn in the UK. In a procedure described as a milestone in neonatal care, a six-day-old baby girl’s kidneys and liver cells were given to two … Read More

The marriage debate

24/02/2015 | Reform

The United Reformed Church is faced with a decision. Under the law which introduced the marriage of same-sex couples from 2014, no local churches in England and Wales can offer same-sex marriage services without the agreement of the relevant Church … Read More

Christian Activist: Repaying evil with good

24/02/2015 | Reform

Annet Ttendo’s story of surviving rape and campaigning for justice

“It was really for vengeance that I
originally studied law”

When I was 13, a stranger raped me. No one knew, until my mother realised I was pregnant. Though a devout … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Mark 1:12

24/02/2015 | Reform

“Wilderness is a place of unexpected encounters with the capacity to bring wholeness”

There is an urgency about the Gospel of Mark which leaves the reader breathless. In the blink of an eye we are rushed from John the Baptiser … Read More