300 years of worship in Chesham

29/01/2025 | Reform

Heather Al-Jawad looks back with thanks

The 17th century had seen a lot of changes in religious life in England. The Church of England had established its supremacy in the country, but Nonconformists, who did not hold with the monarch … Read More

The Colors Within

27/01/2025 | Reform

Directed by Naoko YamadaCertificate U, 101 minutesReleased31 January

This Japanese animated feature opens in a boarding school chapel, in which a teenage girl is praying the Serenity Prayer. In terms of real-life religious faith, this is not particularly odd; yet … Read More

A good question: Where is America now?

27/11/2024 | Reform

One question, four answers

Karen Georgia Thompson‘The call to follow Jesus invites risk’

The aftermath of the presidential elections in the United States left a mixture of emotions and responses to the election of former President Donald Trump as the … Read More

The Changed Heart of the General Secretary

27/11/2024 | Reform

Victoria Turner considers Bernard Thorogood and the restructuring of the Council for World Mission

There are big benefits to studying recent history. You can see, very clearly, the present-day consequences of the decisions made in the time that you’re studying. … Read More

Reviews December 2024/January 2025

27/11/2024 | Reform

RumoursDirected by Guy Maddin, Evan Johnson, Galen JohnsonCertificate 15109 minutesReleased 6 December

Jesus spoke of ‘wars and rumours of wars’, and told us to give our leaders their due. He also spoke of the End of the Age. In our … Read More

Cultivating Hope

27/11/2024 | Reform

For years, Palestinians have suffered from not being able to tell their own stories, say Mahmoud Muna and Matthew Teller. Their new book, Daybreak in Gaza, hopes to change that, and to reveal a ‘normal society’ with a rich, multicultural … Read More