The nation may have been caught off guard by a surprise July general election, but the team at Reform is on it.
If you’re still wondering where to mark your cross, four well-informed contributors reflect on how Christians should decide who to vote for, editor Stephen Tomkins buckles up for democracy, and Lance Stone argues that the Christian commitment to Jesus, the Good Shepherd, demands a deep political and civic responsibility.
Also meet the incoming Moderator of the United Reformed Church General Assembly, the Revd Tim Meadows, who has journeyed from fundamentalism in the mountains of Virginia to leading a pioneering, inclusive spiritual community in Liverpool. He says the URC needs to proclaim itself more loudly and not hide behind “the cloak of an inherited model of church”.
Elsewhere in the summer edition of Reform, Sarah Corbett’s crafty form of campaigning offers a thought-provoking activity for you to get your needle into, while the summer of sport gets a look in with our focus on athlete and missionary Eric Liddell, whose very public faith commitment at the 1924 Paris Olympics was the subject of the Oscar winning film, Chariots of Fire.
Other anniversaries are also marked. It is 350 years since the birth of the prolific hymn writer Isaac Watts – Ana Gobledale asks what inspired him; and Sarah Lane Cawte marks 80 years since the passing of the Education Act in the UK.
All this and more in the July-August Reform, out now!
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