Pastors still care

23/08/2019 | Reform

Catherine Ball on the rewards and challenges of pastoral care today

Pastoral care is one of the core responsibilities in ministry. It is a vital aspect of church life, developing relationships, building community and opening up opportunities for the application … Read More

My first Pride

23/08/2019 | Reform

Charissa King overcame her reservations to attend a Pride parade for the first time. This is what she learned

This summer, I decided to watch, cheer and high five a parade of people from the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer … Read More

Compassionate communities in Coventry

23/08/2019 | Reform

Hospital chaplains in Coventry are taking the services they offer out of the hospital into the wider community. Paul Holmes, Chaplaincy Team Leader, reports

In recent years, the chaplaincy at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire has extended its work with … Read More

A letter from… Budapest

23/08/2019 | Reform

Balázs Ódor writes from the Church in Budapest, Hungary

It is deucedly difficult to tell a lie when you don’t know the truth,’ reads the opening sentence of a rather famous book, Celestial Harmonies, by the Hungarian writer, Péter Esterházy. … Read More

Chapter & verse: Luke 16:1-13

23/08/2019 | Reform 1

Rosalind Selby grapples with a puzzling parable

This parable can only be found in Luke’s Gospel, and it’s a parable many of us might feel puzzled mightily by. Unlike, say, the parable of the good Samaritan, where it’s rather clearer … Read More

I am… a haemophiliac

23/08/2019 | Reform

Olly Black on living with haemophilia

I kept getting bruises all over when I was six months old. My dad’s mum thought my mum and dad were beating me. They took me for tests, and found out I had genetic … Read More