News comment: Fairtrade matters

29/08/2020 | Reform 1

Melanie Smith on why Fairtrade matters

If black lives matter, so does Fairtrade. In fact, if you say that black lives matter, and yet buy tea, coffee, sugar, bananas, chocolate or even cotton or condoms which are not fairly traded, … Read More

Art in focus: September 2020

29/08/2020 | Reform

Jawahar AnshurMarc Quinn, concrete

Marc Quinn made headlines in July for his sculpture, A Surge of Power (Jen Reid), which was immediately removed by Bristol Council from the plinth newly vacated by the controversial figure of Edward Colston. Some people … Read More

Editorial: The measure of success

29/08/2020 | Reform

There’s no surer way to show your age than by complaining about how education has changed. Apart from complaining about your aches and pains, I suppose, but I’ll spare you that for now.

I have fond memories of my O … Read More

The future of giving

29/08/2020 | Reform

Technology and public health are transforming the ways money changes hands. Here’s how churches can keep up

GlobalData plc predicted in January that the UK would be ‘at the very least … a predominantly cashless society by the mid-2020s’. However … Read More

Forbidden Church

29/08/2020 | Reform

What was life like in the English Christian underground? Stephen Tomkins explores the illegal Church of the Mayflower Pilgrims

Four hundred years ago this month, members of an illegal English church sailed on the Mayflower to North America, believing they … Read More

Who’s afraid of the Beast?

29/08/2020 | Reform

If you’ve been put off the book of Revelation, says Symon Hill, it’s time to take another look

What do the following have in common? The European Union, the Pope, Elizabeth II, Oliver Cromwell, Mikhail Gorbachev and the inventor of … Read More