Reviews – May 2019

29/04/2019 | Reform

Soul music

Amazing GraceDirected by Alan Elliot and Sydney PollackCertificate PG, 87 minutesReleased 10 May

January 1972. The soul singer Aretha Franklin, an artist at her creative peak, decides to record an album of gospel music in the New Temple … Read More

A good question: What can we learn from Brexit?

29/04/2019 | Reform

One question, four answers

These are extracts from an article that was published in the May 2019 edition of Reform

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Interview: Safe home

29/04/2019 | Reform 1

The domestic abuse specialist Natalie Collins talks to Stephen Tomkins

Natalie Collins has survived domestic abuse to become an educator and campaigner. She works to help individuals, organisations and society in general to understand domestic abusers and domestic abuse, to … Read More

Editorial: In defence of blasphemy

29/04/2019 | Reform

A date unlikely ever to become part of the Church calendar – on 7 November 1979 Monty Python’s Life of Brian was released. It is now back in cinemas to celebrate its 40th anniversary.

It is a marker of … Read More

Art in focus: April 2019

27/04/2019 | Reform

Ecce HomoLovis Corinth

Three faces tell the story of a betrayal. Here is the moment when Pilate, the Roman governor, shows the scourged, bound and crowned Jesus to the people, with the words ‘Behold the man’. The painter has made … Read More

Reviews – April 2019

01/04/2019 | Reform

Painting to grasp God

At Eternity’s GateDirected by Julian SchnabelCertificate 12a, 111 minutesReleased 29 March

It’s quite a feat for a well-known actor with a well-known face to transform themselves into a cultural icon so thoroughly that you forget the … Read More