Reviews June 2023

31/05/2023 | Reform

Interrogating the text

RealityDirected by Tina SatterCertificate 12a, 83 minutesReleased 2 June

A film named after not, as you might imagine, a state of truth, but a young woman, the main protagonist Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney). She works in a … Read More

A good question: How do I pray?

28/04/2023 | Reform

One question, four answers

CLARE DAVISON‘It’s a level of communicating beyond words’

Prayer is very personal and, as I was mulling over this question, I thought back over the different periods of my life, all of which have added to … Read More

Chapter & verse: Luke 4: 16-19

28/04/2023 | Reform

Jooseop Keum finds Christ in the margins

The incarnation of Jesus took place among the people at the margins. Jesus was not born in a palace, but a manger, a ragged cowshed, an open and unprotected place. They never expected … Read More

Art in focus – May 2023

28/04/2023 | Reform

Keiskamma GuernicaKeiskamma Art Project, 2010

A young doctor arrives in an Eastern Cape village in South Africa. She is appalled at the extreme poverty and deprivation all around her. The HIV/AIDS pandemic is raging, affecting both men and women, and … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘If a nice sandwich or a hairstyle are “amazing”, where do we go for what’s truly amazing?’

28/04/2023 | Reform

Chatting with my mum recently, it turns out she’s got an amazing bugbear: the word ‘amazing’. It’s overused, she said. Everywhere on television, radio and in magazines nowadays, we’re all finding everything ‘amazing’.

Soon after, a friend said he turns … Read More

Editorial: From the Editor?

28/04/2023 | Reform

As a society, we are constantly evolving and adapting to the changing times. With this evolution comes the need for reform, both in our personal lives and in the systems that govern us.

This is particularly true in the realm … Read More