A picture of faith: Interview with Neil Thorogood

04/02/2026 | Reform

Neil Thorogood has gone from local minister to Principal of Westminster College and back again. He is also the URC’s next Moderator of General Assembly. He talks to Reform about family, theology through painting and where the URC is … Read More

Hamnet

05/01/2026 | Reform

Directed by Chloé Zhao Certificate 12A125 minutes Released 9 January

Shakespeare’s romantic relationship, family life and the tragedy of bereavement resulted in his writing one of his bestknown plays, Hamlet. In Elizabethan England, we are told at the start of … Read More

The Choral

07/11/2025 | Reform

Directed by Nicholas Hytner Certificate 12a113 minutes Released 7 November

Two years into the First World War, Ramsden, Yorkshire, is feeling the pinch. The musical director of the local choral society has just joined up, forcing the organiser, local mill … Read More

Let God in

22/09/2025 | Reform

Our Church’s idea of God has to change, says John Bradbury, General Secretary of the URC, in a powerful call to renewal

…The primary exponent of the position that the Council of Nicaea came to embrace was Athanasius, who was … Read More

To the ends of the road

22/09/2025 | Reform

Michael Harvey is best known as the developer of Back to Church Sunday. This year he has been working with the URC North Western Synod on a remarkably non-terrifying and productive approach to evangelism, the ACORN practice.

Can you … Read More

The Glassworker

17/09/2025 | Reform

Directed by Usman Riaz Certificate 12a98 minutes Released 19 September

Although this looks and feels like a movie made by Japan’s famed drawn animation house Studio Ghibli, it is in fact Pakistan’s first animated feature: no mean feat given … Read More