Interview: Half humanity

01/11/2016 | Reform

Elaine Storkey talks to Steve Tomkins about violence against women

Worldwide, 140 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). In the course of the present decade, the UN estimates, 18.5 million girls under the age of 15 … Read More

A letter from… Kolkata, India

01/11/2016 | Reform

The Face to Face programme in Kolkata, India

On 3 September 2016, 14 of us, from ten different countries around the world, gathered in Kolkata for Indian leg of Face to Face – a seven-week programme of engagement with people … Read More

20 Questions: Inua Ellams

01/11/2016 | Reform

The poet, playwright and performer Inua Ellams gives 20 answers

What is your favourite time of year? Definitely summer. I was born in a hot country, and when it gets hot I feel nicer.

When did you last pray? Before … Read More

Brothers in arms

01/11/2016 | Reform

One hundred years ago, Frederick Pickering and Friedrich Hauss were on opposite sides in the Battle of the Somme. Now their grandsons have made the surprising discovery of their shared history

In 1916 Friedrich Hauss, a German theological student, was … Read More

A Sikh’s Jesus

01/11/2016 | Reform 1

In the fifth of this series hearing insights into Jesus from people of other faiths, Charanjit Ajit Singh brings a Sikh perspective to the Gospels

I recently visited a very big Sikh gurdwara in Abbotsford, Canada, where we listened to … Read More

Jumble sales of the apocalypse: Blessed Beer

01/11/2016 | Reform

Simon Jenkins enjoys blessed beer

A priest walks into a bar and asks the barman to give him a Hail Mary. ‘Don’t you mean a Bloody Mary?’ replies the barman. ‘And two Our Fathers for insulting the Blessed Virgin,’ says … Read More