Reviews – December 2019/January 2020

22/11/2019 | Reform

Faithful Leader’s life

A Better Ambition: Confessions of a faithful liberalTim FarronSPCK£19.99 (hardback)ISBN: 9780281083589

Context is hugely important. It shapes the way that we engage with the world around us, and our own faith. With that in mind, it was … Read More

Editorial: Christmas or politics?

22/11/2019 | Reform

This December brings us perhaps the most important general election in a generation. An occasion of anxiety and alarm for people of quite different perspectives, of nationwide division, of misinformation, of grave decisions.

It also brings us Christmas. Which would … Read More

Reform’s charity Advent and Christmas calendar

22/11/2019 | Reform

Christmas isn’t Christmas unless it involves giving to people who can’t give back. Anything else is just swapping, really.

So it’s time for Reform’s reverse Advent calendar. Every day you put aside some money, let’s say £1, and at the … Read More

A good question: Are you afraid of dying?

01/11/2019 | Reform

One question, four answers

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These are extracts from an article that was published in the November 2019 edition of Reform

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Together in Hiroshima

01/11/2019 | Reform

Elizabeth Welch reports on a moving ecumenical encounter

Hiroshima. The name of this Japanese city brings to mind pictures of devastation. The memories of the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki are still strong. The Peace Memorial Park, … Read More

Just don’t do it

01/11/2019 | Reform

Kate Mounce found sex surrounded by silence in churches, so decided to make a show about it

A Christian summer camp. Two unmarried youth leaders give The Sex Talk to a group of teenage girls. It features personal stories, matriarchal … Read More