Reviews March 2023

24/02/2023 | Reform

Whatever is good and lovely

Lunana: A Yak In The ClassroomDirected by Pawo Choyning DorjiCertificate PG, 109 minutes,Oscar nomination – Best International Feature 2022Released 10 March

City boy Ugyen (Sherab Dorji) must work five years in education under Bhutan’s National … Read More

A good question: Lent: Have we given up giving up?

24/02/2023 | Reform

One question, four answers

Eugenia Constantinou‘Fasting is not just about food’

We should give up giving up. I suppose that seems strange coming from an Orthodox Christian. But yes, you should give up giving up because Great Lent was never … Read More

A preacher’s life for me

24/02/2023 | Reform

Martin Camroux reflects on 60 years of preaching

One of the great things about being retired is that I am now a hit-and-run preacher. Turn up, preach the sermon and I’m off. Which gives me a certain freedom to say … Read More

Jesus and… Women

24/02/2023 | Reform

A series about what we have to learn from Jesus on a range of subjects. This month, Susan Durber looks at Jesus’ attitude to women

Jesus said very little about women, or gender, or sexuality or any of that. But … Read More

Living and breathing in Bethlehem

24/02/2023 | Reform

Rowena Francis reports on a stay in the Holy Land

It was a privilege to be part of the World Council of Churches’ Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI) for my sabbatical from URC stipendiary ministry. This programme … Read More

But is it worship?

24/02/2023 | Reform

Peter Stevenson on a harp-based initiative in Stamford

Stamford United Reformed Church has introduced a monthly gathering in the chapel under the title Sanctuary. One of the church members, Eleanor Turner (pictured), is an internationally celebrated harpist who offered her … Read More