Interview: 1517 and all that

06/07/2016 | Reform

Historian and TV presenter Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Stephen Tomkins

Five centuries ago next year, a teacher at an obscure university in Wittenberg, Germany, hung 95 discussion starters on the church door for his students on the subject of the … Read More

Interview: Into the woods

27/05/2016 | Reform

The writer and community founder Tobias Jones talks to Stephen Tomkins

In 2005, the writer Tobias Jones spent a year touring alternative communities in Britain and Italy with his family, in the hope of finding a way of life free … Read More

Robert Beckford Interview: Faith, Films and Theology

03/05/2016 | Reform 1

Kay Parris meets theologian, author and Bafta-award-winning broadcaster Robert Beckford

On a grey but close day, with no windows open, the low-ceilinged lobby outside Robert Beckford’s office at Goldsmith’s College in London – at the top of what feels like … Read More

Marilynne Robinson interview: The faith behind the fiction

03/05/2016 | Reform

Multiple award-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson reflects on two related themes – the importance of religion and the mysteries of the mind.
 Interview by Kay Parris

Writing in the Times shortly after the publication of Marilynne Robinson’s third novel in 2008, … Read More

Interview: Hard love

22/04/2016 | Reform

Terri Roberts, whose son committed a school shooting, talks to Stephen Tomkins

To lose a son in a school shooting is a mother’s nightmare. But how does she cope with discovering that he was also the gunman? On 2 October … Read More

Interview: We’re in this together

27/03/2016 | Reform

Ruth Hunt, Chief Executive of Stonewall, talks to Stephen Tomkins

As the leader since 2014 of the UK’s largest LGBT rights charity, it’s no surprise that Ruth Hunt has been responsible for campaigns to tackle homophobic bullying, to address discrimination … Read More