Editorial: Here’s to next time

27/03/2018 | Reform

Editing a magazine might not be a hard job, but there are some unforeseen pitfalls. I use three recording devices at once for interviews (belt, braces and stapling your trousers on) but on one occasion all three failed to record. … Read More

Interview: A beautiful lie

20/03/2018 | Reform

The historian Kate Bowler talks to Stephen Tomkins and Charissa King

Though she grew up amid Canadian Mennonites, Kate Bowler became an academic authority on a very different branch of Christianity, the prosperity gospel, which tells followers that God wants … Read More

A good question: What do you do about the bits of the Bible you don’t like?

23/02/2018 | Reform

One question, four answers

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These are extracts from an article that was published in the March 2018 edition of  Reform

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Jumble sales of the apocalypse: Spontaneous prayer

23/02/2018 | Reform

Simon Jenkins on spontaneous prayer

Churches differ from each other in a multitude of ways – whether their clergy dress up or dress down, whether they skip through five-minute sermonettes or endure hour-long blockbusters – but one of the biggest … Read More

Chapter & verse: Mark 14 and 15

23/02/2018 | Reform

John Proctor on Mark’s passion

Lent. Jesus’ journey to Jerusalem. Holy Week. Stations of the Cross. This is a strange and solemn season, telling of a topsy-turvy world and an upside-down kingdom. As the promise of spring starts to lighten … Read More

I am… a former porn addict

23/02/2018 | Reform 1

Virginia Nicholls tells her story of overcoming porn addiction

Shame is a feeling that sticks to you like glue. It is hard to pick off. When you do try to pick it off, it can leave marks behind. It can … Read More