Reviews – May 2017

02/05/2017 | Reform

Healing the divide between nations

Frantz Directed by François Ozon Certificate 12a, 113 minutes Released 12 May

Shot largely in ravishing black and white to recreate a time before colour photography existed – although occasional colour enhances … Read More

A letter from… Cuba

02/05/2017 | Reform

Edelberto Valdés Fleites reports on the struggles and joys of the Church in Cuba

We live on an island in the middle of the Caribbean Sea, so we often feel separated from everything and everywhere else. Why? Because we have … Read More

Chapter & verse: Revelation 21:22-22:5

02/05/2017 | Reform

Erna Stevenson finds Christian Aid in Revelation

How fitting it is that Christian Aid Week should fall in the season of Easter! It is in the event of the resurrection that God’s emphatic ‘NO’ to suffering and death, to humiliation … Read More

Interview: Martin Luther, Catholic hero

02/05/2017 | Reform

Stephen Tomkins talks to Peter Stanford

In 1505, caught in a thunderstorm, Martin Luther cried out to St Anne, promising to become a friar if she saved him. So the man who was to start the Protestant Reformation began by … Read More

Out with the organ, in with the coffee machine

02/05/2017 | Reform

The story of a church finding a new way to serve its community – and the sacrifice it entailed

Southcote, a housing estate in Reading, Berkshire, used to have a cafe, a pub and a library, but the cafe and … Read More

Summer festivals

02/05/2017 | Reform

Decide which Christian festival is for you with the help of Reform’s 2017 round up

It must be summer – the days are getting longer, the ice cream vans are coming out of hibernation and Christians are getting wellied up … Read More