Reviews – December 2017/January 2018

24/11/2017 | Reform

How do people cope?

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri Directed by Martin McDonagh Certificate 12A, 105 minutes Released 12 January

Outraged at police slowness in solving her daughter’s rape and murder case, Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) commissions the eponymous three … Read More

Christmas among the cows

24/11/2017 | Reform

What’s so special about a baby in a cattle shed? asks Susan Durber

There is something utterly extraordinary that we celebrate at Christmas. But it is not, I think, that a baby was once born in a stable. There was … Read More

Linking arms around the world

24/11/2017 | Reform

How can the global Christian community address the needs of today’s world? Reform joins a round table discussion

Representatives of two North American Churches embarked on a 17-day tour of global partner churches in September. The United Church of Christ … Read More

Building up the Castle

24/11/2017 | Reform

With 19 members and a building about to be demolished, Crossway United Reformed Church might have disappeared. Instead, as Peter Stevenson recounts, it became a religious hub at the heart of the community

When I came to Crossway, south London, … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: Handling Martha

24/11/2017 | Reform

‘Some of us see her as our pastoral challenge but pressure has been building’

Things are not always hunky dory in the land of the Christians. We are all growing at different stages in our faith and in our own … Read More

I am… on universal credit

24/11/2017 | Reform 1

‘If it wasn’t for my kids, I might have killed myself. This system is just horrible’

I waited nine weeks for universal credit. They told me they didn’t get the form they needed, so I sent it off again. Then … Read More