The Glassworker

17/09/2025 | Reform

Directed by Usman Riaz Certificate 12a98 minutes Released 19 September

Although this looks and feels like a movie made by Japan’s famed drawn animation house Studio Ghibli, it is in fact Pakistan’s first animated feature: no mean feat given … Read More

Where the hope comes from

23/07/2025 | Reform

The aid agency Christian Aid is 80 years old this year. To mark the anniversary, Fiona Bennett spoke with Andrew Tomlinson of Christian Aid Scotland at a service in Augustine United Church, Edinburgh

Fiona: I’m curious to think of how … Read More

Time for a movement

23/07/2025 | Reform

Niall Cooper stepped down in June after 28 years as Director of Church Action on Poverty. He looks back and forward with Reform

Were you brought up in the faith?My dad was a Methodist minister, so I was brought up … Read More

A thousand tongues

23/07/2025 | Reform

In Harmony – Free Church Choirs is keeping alive an important tradition, and a great experience, Stephen Tomkins discovers

It seems that being in a community choir has never been more popular. The Big Choral Census in 2017 found that … Read More

A good question: What makes good worship?

23/07/2025 | Reform

One question, four answers

Nigel Uden‘Good worship is essentially contextual’

Shaping worship has shaped my week for many years. I realise five things have informed my sense of what shapes good worship.

First, giving it the supreme place in my … Read More

The Life of Chuck

23/07/2025 | Reform

Directed by Mike FlanaganCertificate 15, 110 minutesReleased 20 August

‘What are mortals, that you should think of them?’, asks the psalmist.

Stephen King is known as a horror writer, but he sometimes breaks that mould; his stories have produced the … Read More