Interview: Race matters

01/07/2019 | Reform

Charissa King and Stephen Tomkins speak to pastor, charity founder and author Ben Lindsay

Ben Lindsay is on a mission to get churches talking about race. He describes himself as a black pastor of a white-majority church in one of … Read More

Reviews – July/August 2019

01/07/2019 | Reform

Songs and lovers

Marianne & Leonard: Words of loveDirected by Nick BroomfieldCertificate tbc, 97 minutesReleased 26 July

On 29 July 2016 in Norway, a woman named Marianne Ihlen died aged 81. She is familiar to millions as the subject … Read More

Editorial: Listen to the young

28/06/2019 | Reform

Who’d be young in 2019? I mean, yes, I’d jump at the chance to go back, parade my beautiful flowing locks and make all those stupid mistakes again. But there’s a bit more to the deal than that, isn’t there? … Read More

Art in focus: June 2019

27/06/2019 | Reform

Lichtkreuze (Crosses of Light) Ludger Hinse, coloured or coated acrylic glass

This cross, by the artist Ludger Hinse, hangs in Bautzen, Germany – and what a cross! The contrast between the traditional space and Hinse’s ‘cross of light’ is striking. The … Read More

Reviews – June 2019

28/05/2019 | Reform

Shooting childhood

Last SummerDirected by Jon JonesCertificate 15, 97 minutesReleased 7 June

Rural Wales. The 70s. Four pre-teenage boys. Summer. And a reminder of the important place that relationships and families have in our everyday lives.

The four boys … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘Blessed be the filmmakers’

28/05/2019 | Reform

Paul Kerensa investigates church DVDs

When I’m visiting a church, I love a browse of the books. I don’t mean the Bibles (although I should browse those more often…) I mean the secondhand books that some churches have in the … Read More