Editorial: Humility and faithfulness

12/12/2023 | Reform

I hear a lot of discussion about the next election: when it will be, how certain a Labour victory is, how large the majority. One question I don’t hear so much is how much difference the result will make either … Read More

Reform’s Christmas Charity Guide

12/12/2023 | Reform

As Noddy Holder put it so well in Slade’s 1973 hit ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’: ‘It’s Christmas!’ Fairy lights and mince pies, carols and baubles, jingle and ding dong. Yum! But why be content with merely celebrating and getting stuff, when … Read More

Living in a world of war

12/12/2023 | Reform

If individuals can’t solve the conflicts of a violent world, what can we do? asks Graham Handscomb

How can we deal with war? I don’t mean as a society, or as the international community, but as individuals. And I’m not … Read More

Reviews December 2023/January 2024

12/12/2023 | Reform

The cycle of life

SamsaraDirected by Lois PatiñoCertificate U, 113 minutesReleased 26 January

Broadly speaking, this film is in three parts. The first takes place in Laos, in east Asia, where the predominant religion is Buddhism. The second is the … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘You can hear Marley’s chains a-rattling in that Bible story’

12/12/2023 | Reform

Paul Kerensa revisits A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol turns 180 years young this December. Yet Christians can have a love-hate relationship with this festive novella. Doesn’t it distract us from the real Christmas? The one with the Christ-child in … Read More

Partners across the ocean

12/12/2023 | Reform 1

The first missionaries to Madagascar in 1818 were from Wales. A group visiting from Wales this year found that relationships between these countries still matter

In July, a group of 11 people from churches around Wales made a two-week visit … Read More