A letter from… California

22/04/2016 | Reform

Robin Wallis reflects on politics, US style

As a British voter, I’ve often thought that US presidential campaigns look preposterously long and wasteful. How much better our
snappy four-week general election showdowns! Now though – living in California, watching this year’s … Read More

Jumble sales of the apocalypse: Ecclesiastical deference

22/04/2016 | Reform

Simon Jenkins on the problem with ecclesiastical deference

I was standing in the crowd outside Westminster Abbey one afternoon in 2010, waiting for the Pope to arrive in his “bulletproof ice cream van” (as one Twitter user had nicknamed the … Read More

Community in bloom

22/04/2016 | Reform

Stan Hazell visits an award-winning gardening project

Walk around the streets surrounding Stand United Reformed Church in Chapelfield, Greater Manchester, and you cannot fail to spot the raised planters, which, from spring to the end of summer, are full of … Read More

20 Questions: Kate Bottley

22/04/2016 | Reform

What is your favourite time of year? About 12.30am on Christmas morning, I walk out of midnight Communion and stand in a silent, empty churchyard. After a few moments, I’m joined by one of our local farmers with a hip … Read More

Reviews – May 2016

22/04/2016 | Reform

Harrowing vision of
 the Holocaust

Son of Saul Directed by László Nemes Certificate 15, 107 minutes Released 29 April

Knowing its subject matter in advance doesn’t prepare the viewer for just how difficult this movie is going to be to … Read More

“What God might be up to”

22/04/2016 | Reform

Greenbelt Festival and the United Reformed Church are going into partnership for the next two years. It’s a plan involving scrap metal, cake, flash mob liturgy and big questions, as Stephen Tomkins discovers

There are acrobats clambering around a huge … Read More