Art in Focus – February 2022

28/01/2022 | Reform

Maundy ThursdayMalcolm Doney, 2019

Covid has been awful, alienating, and tragic for some but, as we’ve slowly begun to realise, it has had a few beneficial effects as well. We’ve recognised our dependence on one another and on public services. … Read More

Editorial: Partied out

28/01/2022 | Reform

The Gospel reading for the Sunday before this edition of Reform went to press was the wedding in Cana, where Jesus turns water into wine. Preaching on it this time last year, I was struck by how out-of-key with our … Read More

Reviews February 2022

28/01/2022 | Reform

On being a refugee

FleeDirected by Jonas Poher RasmussenCertificate 15, 83 minutesReleased 11 February

There have been animated films about life under the Taliban in Afghanistan before, including The Breadwinner (reviewed in Reform, June 2018), but Flee is different. It … Read More

Where is God in Myanmar

28/01/2022 | Reform

Chris Mabey tells the story of Myanmar, and considers how we can help

Last week we met a young lady from Myanmar serving at a local pub. She and my Burmese wife April were soon chatting as compatriots. It was … Read More

Don’t call us missing

28/01/2022 | Reform

Victoria Turner calls on the Church to listen seriously to younger voices

There is a growing amount of literature on the subject of reconciliation across the generations in the Church. With a lot of this scholarship, however, I have found … Read More

The churches that make us: Chapel on the Hill, Sedlescombe

28/01/2022 | Reform

In the first of a new series covering the breadth of churches in the URC, Reform visits Sedlescombe, East Sussex

It’s all been God-led,’ says Marie Jackson. ‘We didn’t plan to do it at all.’ She and her husband Peter … Read More