Art in focus: July/August 2024

03/07/2024 | Reform

El AnantsuiThe Restless Earth, 2017Fabric and mixed media

This massive ‘cloth’ or hanging – or sculpture – is the work of Ghanaian artist El Anantsui. It is made from hundreds of flattened bottle tops, aluminium tins and other found objects, … Read More

A matter of heart: Education and the Free Churches

03/07/2024 | Reform

On 3 August 1944, the Education Act received Royal Assent. Eighty years on, when religious education sometimes feels like one more political football, Sarah Lane Cawte reflects on why RE – and education in general – still matters to the … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘We were sitting in our garden when the sound of guitar-led hymns wafted over the fence’

03/07/2024 | Reform

Paul Kerensa is living the outdoor life

The sun is high and the weather is… well, it’s British summertime, so I wouldn’t be so bold as to guess. But perhaps this time of year, the outside world beckons a little … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘A nightingale, its beak wide open, sang its long, complicated and beautiful song’

03/07/2024 | Reform

Sheila Maxey shares holiday photographs

This summer season seems the time for travellers’ tales and photos, and the internet means I am included. A granddaughter and her boyfriend, aged 19, are in southeast Asia for two months. They seem to … Read More

In search of Island Chapels

03/06/2024 | Reform

David Gleed explores the spiritual draw of remote islands

Out there, on the horizon, islands beckon, they always do, even on seemingly uninviting, wet, murky days. There’s something mysterious and enchanting about an island, something to be discovered… And getting … Read More

Editorial: Making the effort

03/06/2024 | Reform

As a young teenager – young and clueless – I decided to sell all my Doctor Who stuff and give the money to Tearfund, the Christian charity tackling poverty in the Third World, as we called it then. I felt … Read More