Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘No one likes virtue signalling, but are we starting to see vice signalling?’

11/03/2025 | Reform

I can’t imagine anyone likes the idea of ‘virtue signalling’. Whether you’re the accuser or the accused, you’re likely either fed up of spotting self-righteousness, or fed up that your virtuous intent isn’t being taken seriously.

I see both sides. … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘What I am happy to throw out may fill them with horror’

11/03/2025 | Reform

I am beginning to think about the question of passing items of mine on to the next generations. I have experienced two very different ways of doing so.

In one, a maiden aunt of my husband’s prepared carefully for her … Read More

When Autumn Falls

10/03/2025 | Reform

Directed by François OzonCertificate 15102 minutesReleased 21 March

Judge not lest ye be judged, we are told. At the start of this latest drama from François Ozon, an ever-reliable director who rarely repeats himself, a devoted, eighty-something grandmother Michelle (Hélène … Read More

Tracing the triangle

29/01/2025 | Reform

Geoff Felton takes a sabbatical journey of faith and hope

Sabbaticals are a gift to ministers in the United Reformed Church. They come every ten years to help minsters rest, reflect, pray and seek God. They consist of taking three … Read More

Unsafe places

29/01/2025 | Reform

In the first of two articles following the Makin Report into abuse in the Church of England, a survivor of church-based abuse responds

When I hear yet another story of senior clergy and church leaders covering up appalling, unthinkable abuse … Read More

A good question: Are values more important than beliefs? – Reform Magazine

29/01/2025 | Reform

One question, five answers

Jo Clifford‘Faith was about believing things you didn’t understand’

I believe in God, Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth…’

I lost count of the number of times I had to say the Apostles’ Creed during … Read More