Art in Focus: October 2024

02/10/2024 | Reform

Angel IV, 2003Emily YoungPaternoster Square, London

If you happen to be in London, walking past St Paul’s Cathedral and into Paternoster Square – look up. You will see five magnificent angel heads mounted on pillars, gazing out over the city. … Read More

Here & now: Phoebe Edmonds

02/10/2024 | Reform

‘If we could all have a bit more of a laugh, politics wouldn’t be such a divisive world’

Back in June, my eye was caught by a TikTok from comedian Joe Lycett. I am a fan of Lycett’s political stunts, … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘We’re trying to take a step back from smartphones – and say hello to dumbphones.’

02/10/2024 | Reform

Be smart, get dumb, says Paul Kerensa

The new academic year has meant an ‘autumn-clean’ of our family’s digital life. Somehow our two children – surely toddlers a minute ago – are now in secondary school. With that jump comes … Read More

Soul stories: Sian Joyner

02/10/2024 | Reform

Sian Joyner sees disability differently

As I stand under shelter, waiting for a friend for a coffee date, the voice wakes me from a daydream. I think about lecturing them on the figurative nature of the healing stories; I think … Read More

Community Project Awards: The Barn, Livingston

02/10/2024 | Reform

The lines between church and café are blurred when volunteers care and there’s great rhubarb pie. Laurence Wareing reports

Why do a job miles away when you could do it at home? This was one of the game-changing questions that … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘The suggestion that God takes risks all the time startled me and appealed to me’

02/10/2024 | Reform

‘Precarious’ is a troubling kind of word. I think of a rickety step ladder, or the worrying state of someone’s health, or the position of many a local church. Yet two books I have recently read have used the word … Read More