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Growing in prayer – part 1
Articles | 11.01.2026
We begin the new year with a focus on deepening our prayer life.
Looking back, looking forward
Articles | 28.12.2025
Our chief executive Richard Fisher looks back on 2025 in thankfulness and forward to 2026 in hope and anticipation.
Christmas greetings
Articles | 21.12.2025
Maggi Dawn invites us to rethink those Christmas card images and look afresh at that snowy stable scene.
The hope of glory
Articles | 14.12.2025
Angela Tilby offers Advent reflections on ‘The hope of glory’.
Dreaming of a Green Christmas
Articles | 07.12.2025
Olivia Warburton offers tips and tricks for busy families yearning for a greener, more sustainable Christmas.
Arks of lockdown
Articles | 07.05.2020
Gordon Giles reflects on how prayer, patience and acts of kindness will help defuse lockdown tensions for as long as restrictions last.
Covid-19
The added challenge of additional needs
Articles | 01.05.2020
When everyone is feeling stressed and challenged by the impact of lockdown and social distancing on what was, until recently, 'normal' life, it can be hard to see beyond our own needs and fears. But without doubt, some individuals and families are having a much tougher lockdown than others.
Covid-19
Coping when all is loss
Articles | 19.04.2020
When someone you love dies, words, however kindly meant, are often not enough. Wise befrienders to those who have been bereaved know that just being there is what is most appreciated. Solidarity in silence can be the most precious gift a comforter can bring.
Covid-19
Easter people in lockdown
Articles | 12.04.2020
Gordon Giles reflects on the very first Easter lockdown and what it says to us today.
Covid-19 Easter
Our ministry continues
Articles | 04.04.2020
Despite the challenges of COVID-19, we are continuing to enable all ages to grow in faith
Covid-19
And it was night
Articles | 03.04.2020
A Holy Week reflection for the coronavirus pandemic, from Joanna Collicutt, psychologist, theologian, priest and BRF author.
Easter Holy week Loss Reflection
But how should we pray at such a time as this?
Articles | 30.03.2020
How heartfelt prayer can be a 'saving health service' to help us through the Coronavirus pandemic.
Covid-19 Prayer
Anna Chaplaincy for Older People celebrates ten years of service and growth
Articles | 06.02.2020
BRF’s Anna Chaplaincy for Older People marked its 10th anniversary with a joyful Candlemas Carol Service in Oxford’s Christ Church Cathedral on 2 February 2020
Anna Chaplaincy
Building for the future – how regular giving helps us plan
Articles | 01.01.2020
Regular giving to our work helps us plan carefully for the future.
Bible reflection Giving
It’s official: Messy Church works!
Articles | 20.02.2019
Playfully Serious: How Messy Churches create new space for faith proves that Messy Church is not just ‘a bit of fun’.
Messy Church