Reverse Advent Calendar 2020: Day 1

29/11/2020 | Reform

Embrace the Middle East

Embrace the Middle East is a Christian charity with over 160 years’ experience helping people of all faiths and none to free themselves from a life of poverty and injustice. With £38 we can change … Read More

Reviews: December 2020 / January 2021

23/11/2020 | Reform 1

The irredeemable flesh

PossessorDirected by Brandon CronenbergCertificate 18, 103 minutesReleased 27 November

The controversial director David Cronenberg has long been an exponent of something he calls ‘the new flesh’, ways that humanity might transcend its bodies. His son … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘Aching in body, I was renewed in spirit’

03/11/2020 | Reform

Sheila Maxey watches clouds gather

In last month’s column, I said that ‘provisional’ seems to be the word these days. Now, it looks like we have to expect six months more of this provisionality and uncertainty.

When friends … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I made an accidental prophecy’

03/11/2020 | Reform

Paul Kerensa makes an accidental prophecy

When the nights draw in, my diary normally gets busy. Colder months need a bit of cheer, so my comedian colleagues and I would brighten dark days via light entertainment. Oh and a … Read More

Editorial: Keep the stories coming

23/10/2020 | Reform

I have been poring over old copies of Reform for a book I’m writing, and was struck by John Gregory’s editorial from the third issue, in January 1973. What has changed, and what hasn’t!

Good news first: it … Read More

Interview: The story that changed everything

23/10/2020 | Reform

Historian Tom Holland talks to Stephen Tomkins about the Christian story

Tom Holland’s home ground as a historian is the classical world of Rome, Greece and Persia. He wrote his deservedly bestselling Dominion: The making of the western mind … Read More