The work of “prophetic activism” runs powerfully through the latest edition of Reform.
Niall Cooper, stepping down after 28 years as Director of Church Action on Poverty, argues that churches have more power to bring about change than they realise. A group of church members quiz Lib Dem leader Ed Davey on climate change, and in the first of our reports on the 2025 winners of the URC’s Community Project Awards, volunteers at a meal-sharing project in Flintshire describe how it’s sometimes the simple ideas that have the greatest lasting power.
In Reform’s Bible study, Chapter and Verse, Laurence Wareing asks what prophetic action should look like today, and we mark the 80th anniversary of the aid agency Christian Aid with an interview with Andrew Tomlinson of Christian Aid Scotland. Andrew describes the charity’s beginnings at the end of the Second World War and highlight’s today’s priorities. However, he says the idea of celebrating 80 years of Christian Aid makes the organisation uncomfortable “because we exist to create a world free from poverty and injustice and in an ideal world there would be no Christian Aid”.
Elsewhere, Kevin Snyman is worried that “many Christians seem unaware of the dangers of selling off key aspects of their faith to empire”, Sam Richards says “intergenerational church” is the future, regular columnist Sheila Maxey learns from taking a back seat, and Paul Kerensa berates AI’s ability to turn private grief into clickbait.
The Issue 5/2025 edition of Reform is available from 27 July.
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