Art in Focus: November 2024

25/10/2024 | Reform

Blood Swept Landsand Seas of Red, 2014Paul Cummins & Tom Piper

The artist Paul Cummins remembers, ‘One rainy day in 2012, I ducked into my local library for shelter and for some reason started looking at wills. I found one … Read More

Reviews November 2024

25/10/2024 | Reform

BlitzDirected by Steve McQueenCertificate 12a120 minutesReleased 8 November

People just getting on with life in dire circumstances, doing what they have to do. A mother searches for her lost son. An 11-year-old embraces his black identity. Women work in munitions … Read More

A good question: Can protest be wrong

25/10/2024 | Reform

One question, four answers

Kevin Snyman‘In Jesus I discern when protest is right or wrong’

Protest seems far easier to criminalise than to support. I’ll list four examples.

One: from 31 October 2024, a law comes into force permitting ‘buffer … Read More

Here and now: Florence Wright

25/10/2024 | Reform

Love your MP, says Florence Wright

You might not think of yourself as political, but it is likely you care about political issues. Many of us feel disempowered because the world of politics seems inaccessible, unchangeable, polarised and angry. Maybe … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘At a Not Going Out recording, Miranda asked if I’d write for her radio sitcom’

25/10/2024 | Reform

Paul Kerensa on writing Miranda

Watching Sarah Hadland on Strictly Come Dancing lately has brought back what-I-call ‘such fun’ memories of working on Miranda.

The BBC sitcom was part of my life for a decade, from its Radio 2 origins … Read More

Soul stories: Elizabeth Welch

25/10/2024 | Reform

Elizabeth Welch looks back on a lifetime of calling

I first heard God calling me to ministry at the age of 15 in Johannesburg, where my father was serving as a Congregational minister. I was out walking in the South … Read More