Peace from a shoebox

27/03/2017 | Reform

How a food parcel led to the development of a global partnership between five churches

What happens when, in 1946, you send a marmalade pudding, tins of sardines and corned beef, dried egg powder and half a pound of tea … Read More

Reviews – April 2017

27/03/2017 | Reform

Nonconformist poet

A Quiet Passion Directed by Terence Davies Certificate 12a, 126 minutes Released 7 April

A stern matriarch divides a school room of young women into those who are saved on one side and those who hope to be … Read More

Editorial: Surprise!

27/03/2017 | Reform

So, this is #awks – right? Mine isn’t the face you’d expect on this page, but hey, the Editor is unexpectedly away, and the show must go on, so here I am.

The first issue of Reform I ever worked … Read More

On the pilgrim way: Comforting a dying friend

21/03/2017 | Reform

He joked about it – my husband, Kees, and my old friend and colleague, John, both going into hospital on St Valentine’s Day; and not only that, but at the same ungodly time of 7am, in the same hospital and … Read More

Jumble sales of the apocalypse: The devil’s bagpipes

21/03/2017 | Reform

Simon Jenkins ponders the wonders and weirdness of the devil’s bagpipes

Do you ever wonder what it must have been like back in baroque times to be at the church where JS Bach was the organist? Me neither. But come … Read More

Interview: Day by day

27/02/2017 | Reform

Adrian Plass talks to Charissa King and Stephen Tomkins

In 1983, when The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ was topping the bestseller lists, the Deputy Editor of the Christian magazine Family had an idea. He happened to notice … Read More