A good question: What are angels?

27/11/2018 | Reform

One question, four answers

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This is an extract from an article that was published in the December 2018 / January 2019 edition of  Reform

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Reviews – December 2018/January 2019

27/11/2018 | Reform

Angels against austerity

It’s a Wonderful Life Directed by Frank Capra Certificate U, 131 minutes Re-released in December

Following the banking system bailout and the rise of Trump, this 1946 black-and-white classic – back in cinemas and restored to ultra … Read More

I am… dyslexic, dyspraxic and diabetic

27/11/2018 | Reform

Mordecai Weynberg on living with dyslexia, dyspraxia and diabetes

When I first started school, I hit a brick wall with learning to read. We lived in a particularly hilly bit of Leeds, not far from school at all, but there … Read More

Chapter & verse: Titus 3:1-11

27/11/2018 | Reform

Derek Estill calls for a truly Christian Christmas

‘Christmas is coming, the geese are getting fat / Please put a penny in the old man’s hat / If you haven’t got a penny, a ha’penny will do / If you … Read More

Editorial: No angel

27/11/2018 | Reform

‘What are angels?’ is this month’s ‘A good question’, inspired by the Christmas story. I don’t have an answer – I bring incorrigible scepticism to the subject, I’m afraid – but I do have my own story.

When I was … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘It is a bittersweet time’

27/11/2018 | Reform

Sheila Maxey sees grief and new birth

Since our granddaughter, Ciara, committed suicide two months ago, I have phoned her father – our son, Peter – most days. As I listen, I hear the healing power of the everyday: Ikea … Read More