Interview: A new song

22/09/2017 | Reform

John Bell talks to Stephen Tomkins

At Greenbelt festival on 26 August, 39 years after his ordination, John Bell, the hymnwriter and Iona Community leader, spoke publicly about his sexuality for the first time. ‘I’m gay,’ he said. ‘This is … Read More

Interview: Peace crime

25/08/2017 | Reform 1

Sam Walton, Quaker peace activist, talks to Stephen Tomkins and Charissa King

In the early hours of 21 January, Sam Walton and the Methodist minister Dan Woodhouse broke into Warton Aerodrome, the assembly and testing facility of BAE Systems. In … Read More

Interview: Abundance of spirit

30/06/2017 | Reform

Bobbie Houston, cofounder of the globally-recognised Hillsong Church, talks to Stephen Tomkins and Charissa King

Unusually for Reform, we met Bobbie Houston in the penthouse suite of Kensington’s five-star Royal Garden Hotel. The penthouse, we were quickly told, was provided … Read More

Interview: The race set before us

26/05/2017 | Reform

Rebekah Gregory, a survivor of the Boston Marathon bombing talks to Stephen Tomkins and Charissa King

Rebekah Gregory and her five-year-old son Noah were cheering on a friend at the finishing line of the Boston Marathon on 15 April 2013 … Read More

Interview: Martin Luther, Catholic hero

02/05/2017 | Reform

Stephen Tomkins talks to Peter Stanford

In 1505, caught in a thunderstorm, Martin Luther cried out to St Anne, promising to become a friar if she saved him. So the man who was to start the Protestant Reformation began by … Read More

Interview: Starving for acceptance

27/03/2017 | Reform

Elizabeth McNaught talks to Charissa King and Stephen Tomkins

In 2005, Elizabeth McNaught was a happy, healthy 13-year-old. At the age of 14, she was hospitalised by life-threatening anorexia. Now, as a medical doctor, she has told the story of … Read More