Reviews – July/August 2018

26/06/2018 | Reform

Disfellowshipped

Apostasy Written and Directed by Dan Kokotajlo Certificate tbc, 96 minutes Released 27 July (Cinemas and On Demand)

In Dan Kokotajlo’s debut feature film Apostasy, student sisters Alex (Molly Wright) and Luisa (Sacha Parkinson), and their working mum Ivanna … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘What gives me hope? It’s a difficult question’

26/06/2018 | Reform

Sheila Maxey considers what gives her hope

I have always found change exciting, even liberating. The beginning of a new school year, going to a new place on holiday, changing jobs, even moving furniture around during a spring cleaning surge. … Read More

Editorial: Advice from my younger self

26/06/2018 | Reform

It’s the end times for ‘Jumble sales of the apocalypse’. This month’s Reform sees the last of Simon Jenkins’ column after five years. Its lively satire has received both more praise and more complaints than any other part of the … Read More

Hand over the controls

19/06/2018 | Reform

To see truth, says Richard Rohr, we have to hand over the controls to our imagination

The contemplative mind does not tell us what to see, but teaches us how to see what we behold. Contemplation allows us to see … Read More

Jesus in the trenches

29/05/2018 | Reform

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, aka Woodbine Willie, first published his reflections from the trenches 100 years ago. In this edited extract, he questions the Almighty

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy was a British chaplain in the First World War. He earned the nickname … Read More

I am… a Windrush generation immigrant

29/05/2018 | Reform

Catherine Ross on being part of the Windrush generation

I am a black Caribbean, born on the sunny island of St Kitts in 1951. I left my island home at seven years old to settle in England, and was one … Read More