A letter from… Yola, Nigeria

27/05/2016 | Reform

Anna (not her real name) was one of 276 girls kidnapped from Chibok secondary school in north-east Nigeria by the Islamist group Boko Haram. The girls were enslaved and some of them made to marry members of Boko Haram. Eventually … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Luke 8:26-39

27/05/2016 | Reform

Rosalind Selby considers demons and depression

This tough text is the Gospel reading set for 19 June. Here is Jesus healing a man who lived across the lake in the country of the Gerasenes. The man gives himself the name … Read More

Interview: Into the woods

27/05/2016 | Reform

The writer and community founder Tobias Jones talks to Stephen Tomkins

In 2005, the writer Tobias Jones spent a year touring alternative communities in Britain and Italy with his family, in the hope of finding a way of life free … Read More

A Jew’s Jesus

27/05/2016 | Reform 2

In this new series, we discover insights into Jesus from people of other faiths as they read
 the Gospels. In part one, Ed Kessler brings a Jewish perspective

One of the certain facts about Jesus is that he was a … Read More

Reviews – June 2016

27/05/2016 | Reform

Dying to self

Embrace of the Serpent Directed by Ciro Guerra Certificate 12A, 125 minutes Released 10 June

When a film picks up quotes calling it “transcendent” and a “religious experience”, Christians will want to know whether it lives up … Read More

Niall Cooper: Stand in solidarity

27/05/2016 | Reform

A Church for the poor

Pope Francis has said that he wants “a poor Church, for the poor” – but what does it actually mean to be a Church of and for the poor? Here in the UK, are our … Read More