Reviews – March 2020

21/02/2020 | Reform

Tramps like us

RunDirected by Scott GrahamCertificate 15, 77 minutesReleased 13 March

Finnie (Mark Stanley) hates his job in a fish factory in Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire. He and his wife Katie (Amy Manson) have Springsteen’s legend ‘Born to Run’ tattooed on … Read More

Here & now: Jo Parker

21/02/2020 | Reform

Jo Parker gives a Quaker’s-eye view of the United Reformed Church Youth Assembly

This January, I was a Quaker representative at the United Reformed Church Youth Assembly in Whitemoor Lakes, Staffordshire. I and another Quaker were part of a range … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘January blues have hit’

28/01/2020 | Reform

The January blues hit me early this year – on New Year’s Eve. For the past 30, or even 40 years, we have brought in the new year at my husband’s brother’s home in Lincolnshire. Because the brothers had a … Read More

Art in focus: February 2020

27/01/2020 | Reform

Die Taufe (The Baptism) Adi Holzer

The Austrian artist Adi Holzer is quoted as saying: ‘The artist has the task of making the invisible visible, to trace the secrets of existence.’ Here, he takes an unusual and uncompromising look at … Read More

A good question: What role should children play in church?

24/01/2020 | Reform 2

One question, four answers

This is an extract from an article that was published in the February 2020 edition of Reform

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Bring down the walls

24/01/2020 | Reform

In 1957, the Evangelische Kirche der Pfalz (EKP), a German Church, and what is now the United Reformed Church came together in a covenant of fellowship. And more than 60 years later, on the 30th anniversary of the fall of … Read More