Reviews – July/August 2013

14/07/2013 | Reform

What are creeds for?

Faith and the Creeds Alister McGrath SPCK £8.99

For a book about creeds, Faith and the Creeds spends a long time not talking about creeds. It is only five chapters long, and chapter four is the … Read More

Coming up…

10/07/2013 | Reform

Yesterday I did the interview for September’s Reform (out 31 August), with the novelist Jenn Ashworth (pictured, to the left of the wookie in a suit). It was (for me) a fascinating conversation about growing up in a Mormon family, … Read More

Old Nick

02/07/2013 | Reform 2

I came across this odd little building in Alfreton in Derbyshire on Saturday. It doesn’t look so odd in the photo, partly because it could be in the middle of nowhere (or the 18th century) but in fact it’s on … Read More

Congratulations, it’s a mag

01/07/2013 | Reform

Last week all the work that we in Reform Towers have been doing since January finally came to fruition. I say “all the work” but actually some of the work we’ve done since January has been making tea, which came … Read More

Quote of the month

12/06/2013 | Reform

“Pray for me, for me to make as few errors as possible.”

– Pope Francis

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What martyrs?

05/06/2013 | Reform

There’s an interesting book out by Candida Moss, called The Myth of Persecution: How early Christians invented a story of martyrdom. It attacks the tradition that in the Roman Empire, “vast numbers of believers were thrown to the lions, tortured, or … Read More