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

Editorial: Counting down the days to Advent

29/11/2021 | Reform

I have realised, to my surprise, that these days I prefer the first day of Advent to Christmas Day. Growing up in a non-liturgical family (‘Liturgy is fossilised worship!’), Advent passed us by, apart from its calendar. I was in … Read More

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

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, according to … Read More

Place of running water

29/11/2021 | Reform

Laurence Wareing reports on a church community project offering food, books and more

If, as the Christian poet Steve Turner once observed, ‘there’s something quite religious’ about sharing a cup of coffee, then Sanctuary Café in Lymm is proof of … Read More

More water please!

29/11/2021 | Reform

Reform readers helped Naison Hove provide a well for his village in Zimbabwe. Now he is asking the same for a school where the lack of water is hindering education

Schools across the world face all kinds of challenges, but … Read More