Art in Focus: Issue 2 – 2025

11/03/2025 | Reform

Mount Calvary, 1944William H. Johnson

The scene is simple and graphic. The background, timeless and plain. The figures wear contemporary dress. In this crucifixion scene, there is no attempt at historical accuracy. We know about these people from the Gospel … Read More

Editorial: Does my giving pinch?

11/03/2025 | Reform

I recently reread CS Lewis’s 1952 classic Mere Christianity. Unpacking the already aged term ‘Christian charity’, Lewis says loving my neighbour is a much broader obligation than financial giving; but giving is one thing it inescapably entails. How much should … Read More

Soul stories: Andrea Heron

11/03/2025 | Reform

Where is love? asks Andrea Heron

When I was 18 months old, I was taken to St Stephen’s URC, Wavertree, for the first time by my grandparents. Or so I’m told. I can’t remember, though I believe there may be … Read More

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