Extra time

03/12/2014 | Reform

In 2013, David Goodbourn wrote a powerful reflection in Reform on having months to live. In September 2014, his cancer not having taken the expected course, he wrote the article that follows, reflecting on the strange experience of still being … Read More

A good question: Is abortion unchristian?

02/12/2014 | Reform

Each month we ask one question and get four answers. This month: Is abortion unchristian?

 

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This article was published in the December 2014/January 2015 edition of Reform.

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Reviews – December 2014/January 2015

01/12/2014 | Reform

Scenes from a martyrdom

Stations of the Cross Directed by Dietrich Brueggemann Certificate 15, 105 minutes Released 28 November

Maria is a 14-year-old brought up in a conservative Catholic sect so extreme that she has a crisis of conscience when … Read More

Niall Cooper: To heat, or eat?

01/12/2014 | Reform

The chilling effects of fuel poverty

Advent may be a time of hope and expectation, but it is also, for many, a time of dread. As the thermometer starts to plummet, increasing numbers of people are faced with the unenviable … Read More

Jumble sales of the apocalypse: Badvent

01/12/2014 | Reform

Simon Jenkins introduces the “Badvent” calendar

Standing in the queue at Tesco a few weeks ago, I was eyeing up the impulse buys at the till and wondering whether to go for a two-for-the-price-of-one pouch of Maltesers, when my eyes … Read More

Chapter & verse: Joshua 4

01/12/2014 | Reform

Neil Thorogood finds layered meaning in stories of stones

Sometimes we stand where history was made: The churning memory of war remembered on Normandy’s beaches; the horror brought home following the railway tracks that lead into Auschwitz-Birkenau; the cost made … Read More