Worse than crack

15/07/2013 | Reform

How much does crack cocaine hurt babies in the womb? There was an interesting and sobering answer to that question in The Philadelphia Inquirer yesterday.

Researchers in Philadelphia, led by Prof. Hallam Hurt, started studying the question in 1989. With one in … Read More

Plaque and proud

15/07/2013 | Reform

There’s a new blue plaque on the wall of Church House, where Reform lives. We went out and watched it being unveiled last week. (The picture that looks like Neil McKenna flying a kite is in fact Neil McKenna pulling the veil … Read More

A good question? Should assisted dying be legalised?

15/07/2013 | Reform

Each month we ask one question, and get four answers. This month: Should assisted dying be legalised?

These article was published in the July/August 2013 edition of  Reform.

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Editorial: What’s a magazine for?

14/07/2013 | Reform

What is a magazine for? There’s the fly-swatting side of things, of course, and the all-important pictures for children to cut out and stick to other pieces of paper in Sunday school. But I think there’s more. For one thing, … Read More

Repair, reconcile, resurrect

14/07/2013 | Reform

Forgiveness is inescapable, but reconciliation, sadly, is not. Lawrence Moore reflects on breaking and mending

Simon Wiesenthal, who became a Nazi hunter, was a prisoner in Lemberg concentration camp when he was called to the deathbed of a dying SS … Read More

A letter from… the Philippines

14/07/2013 | Reform

‘The tragedy of Typhoon Pablo has left me with a strong feeling of helplessness and utter hopelessness’

All around there were miles and miles of houses destroyed. It looked like a bomb just exploded and wiped out whole villages. Banana … Read More