Reviews – July/August 2015

26/06/2015 | Reform

What does it mean to be human?

Being Human: How to become the person
you were meant to be Steve Chalke Hodder & Stoughton £12.99

Steve Chalke’s new book is something of a muddle – part spiritual journal, part … Read More

Reviews – June 2015

26/05/2015 | Reform

Kingdom come?

Light Shining in Buckinghamshire Written by Caryl Churchill Lyttelton Theatre, London Until 22 June

Caryl Churchill’s Light shining in Buckinghamshire was first produced in 1976. I wonder if each generation finds things in it that … Read More

Reviews – May 2015

24/04/2015 | Reform

Spotlight on society

Together for the Common Good: Towards a
 national conversation Edited by Nicholas Sagovsky and Peter McGrail SCM Press £25

The “common good” is perhaps the holy grail of political and social policy. The latest quest, building on … Read More

Reviews – April 2015

21/04/2015 | Reform

Rain of terror

The Ark Written by Tony Jordan BBC One, broadcast 30 March, 90 minutes

Noah looks in silence over a post-diluvian landscape, fingers the dry ground and surveys the remaining pools of floodwater on the barren land. Then, … Read More

Reviews – March 2015

24/02/2015 | Reform

The true King

Selma Directed by Ava DuVernay Certificate 12A, 128 minutes Released 6 February

This account of the epoch-making march at Selma, Alabama, deserves comparison to films that were cinematically epoch-making themselves, including Gandhi and Schindler’s … Read More

Reviews – February 2015

23/01/2015 | Reform

Restoring the soul of the Psalms

Psalms Redux: Poems and prayers Carla Grosch-Miller Canterbury Press, Norwich £10.99 (available from the United Reformed Church online store; visit www.urc.org.uk/store)

This book uplifted my soul. The psalms which Carla Grosch-Miller has so … Read More