Reviews – December 2021/January 2022

29/11/2021 | Reform

Love of money

House Of GucciDirected by Ridley ScottCertificate 15, 157 minutesReleased 26 November

Milan, 1978. Patrizia (Lady Gaga) meets Maurizio (Adam Driver) at a stylish party. She works in her stepfather’s transportation business. He is studying law, a member … Read More

A bad promise

29/11/2021 | Reform

The author Philip Yancey talks to Stephen Tomkins

Philip Yancey is one of the United States’ bestselling Christian authors. While that fact may not automatically endear him to all Reform readers, his repeated themes of God’s grace and his own … Read More

Free the captives

29/11/2021 | Reform

Dan Pratt on what churches can do to fight modern slavery

Modern slavery now ranks as the second most profitable worldwide criminal enterprise after the illegal arms trade. There are an estimated 40.3 million people in modern slavery in the … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: Receiving generosity

29/11/2021 | Reform

Can I receive generosity?

I wonder how Mary and Joseph felt as people turned up to honour their child with praise and with luxurious and expensive gifts. Were they overwhelmed by how vital their child was to others? Did they … Read More

Chapter & verse: Mark 5: 1-20

29/11/2021 | Reform

Stuart Radcliffe on demons

Are you allowed to have a favourite passage of Scripture? I’m not sure, but if you are, then this would be one of mine!

It’s a great story. It has a bit of everything in it … Read More

I am… managing Palestinian rehabilitation

29/11/2021 | Reform

Rami Khader fights the fear of demolitions in Palestine

When you ask people what home means to them, many will say that, as well as a physical space, it is their homeland, the land of their ancestors, a cause they … Read More