On the pilgrim way: ‘A nightingale, its beak wide open, sang its long, complicated and beautiful song’

03/07/2024 | Reform

Sheila Maxey shares holiday photographs

This summer season seems the time for travellers’ tales and photos, and the internet means I am included. A granddaughter and her boyfriend, aged 19, are in southeast Asia for two months. They seem to … Read More

In search of Island Chapels

03/06/2024 | Reform

David Gleed explores the spiritual draw of remote islands

Out there, on the horizon, islands beckon, they always do, even on seemingly uninviting, wet, murky days. There’s something mysterious and enchanting about an island, something to be discovered… And getting … Read More

Art in Focus: June 2024

03/06/2024 | Reform

CaravaggioThe Seven Works of Mercy, 1606Oil on canvasNaples, Pio Monte della Misericordia

In an early episode of the Netflix series Ripley, Tom Ripley gazes enigmatically at Caravaggio’s Seven Works of Mercy. The painting was commissioned as an altarpiece by an … Read More

Reviews June 2024

03/06/2024 | Reform

Good stewardship

WildingDirected by David AllenCertificate PG, 75 minutesReleased 14 June

After they inherited Knepp Farm in West Sussex from his parents in the early 1980s, Charlie Burrell and Isabella Tree (Lady Burrell) kept it going for some 17 years … Read More

Editorial: Making the effort

03/06/2024 | Reform

As a young teenager – young and clueless – I decided to sell all my Doctor Who stuff and give the money to Tearfund, the Christian charity tackling poverty in the Third World, as we called it then. I felt … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘We went through Acts in the style of one long recap: Previously in the Bible…’

03/06/2024 | Reform

If you’re on your church’s preaching team, miss a preachers’ meeting at your peril. You’ll be signed up for an all-age sermon covering the whole book of Acts. I speak from experience…

Paul Kerensa is on tour around the country. … Read More