Art in Focus – December 2020 / January 2021

26/01/2021 | Reform

Adorazione del Bambino (Adoration of the Christ Child)Geritt van Honthorst, oil on canvas

The Dutch painter Geritt, or Gerard, van Honthorst was also known as Gherardo delle Notti (Gerard of the nights) for his fascination with light in the darkness. … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: “I’ll be home for Christmas,” so the song goes. Won’t we all?’

01/12/2020 | Reform

Paul Kerensa shares Covid-safe Christmas ideas

A couple of months ago in this column, I asked for your outside-the-box ideas to light up this bleak midwinter. If we can’t sing in church, if the Rule of Six-Geese-a-Laying means no big … Read More

Editorial: A sustained assault on democracy

01/12/2020 | Reform

In the early days of Donald Trump’s presidency, there were widely circulated rumours of a dossier of compromising material on him. Such rumours were neither here nor there, one would have thought. Considering what the US public already knew about … Read More

News comment: The last Trump?

01/12/2020 | Reform

Donald Norwood considers Christians’ response to Trump

If you try and separate politics and religion, you end up with Trump. Or so it seems to me, after reading Sarah Posner’s Unholy: Why white evangelicals worship at the altar of Donald … Read More

Praise and blessings

01/12/2020 | Reform

Singer and presenter Aled Jones talks to Stephen Tomkins

Aled Jones has been in the British public eye since the age of 14, when Toys R Us wanted to use ‘Walking in the Air’, a song from the Channel 4 … Read More

A good question: Which Christmas carol says it all for you?

01/12/2020 | Reform

One question, four answers

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These are extracts from an article published in the December 2020 / January 2021 edition of Reform

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