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, … 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 … 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 … 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 … Read More

On the pilgrim way ‘It was not at all like a funeral service’

29/11/2021 | Reform

Sheila Maxey remembers saints

Growing up in Scotland I loved Hallowe’en: the turnip lanterns (much harder to make than pumpkin ones), the ‘dooking’ for apples and other silly games. But All Saints Day completely passed me by then – … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I tucked into 200 mince pies and three gallons of mulled wine’

29/11/2021 | Reform

A good-as-possible Christmas with Paul Kerensa

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without – what?

Presents, according to the book Little Women. The Radio Times, according to the ad campaign for, well, Radio Times. An annual viewing of Die Hard, … Read More