Reviews – November 2013

24/10/2013 | Reform

A symphony to the silence

The Power of Silence: The riches that lie within Graham Turner Bloomsbury Continuum £16.99 (hardback)

I must admit that I struggled with this book for the first few pages. It seemed like an awfully noisy … Read More

Simon Jenkins: How to listen to other faiths

21/10/2013 | Reform

Every few months my doorbell rings and I see two familiar West Indian ladies, one tall, the other short, through the frosted glass. I’ve never been a fan of the JW brand, and so I decided a couple of years … Read More

Edyookayshun

03/10/2013 | Reform

I’ve just, for no very good reason, been looking on the Department of Education’s website at the section on state-maintained faith schools. I learned three interesting things.*

a) one third of all state schools are also faith schools. You probably … Read More

Who hates Britain?

03/10/2013 | Reform

This one page of an unknown newspaper contains the sentence “This Land of Hope and Glory is just a land of yobs and drunks” three times.

“My patriotism has gone out of the window” occurs just once.

It says countless … Read More

Faith leaps

02/10/2013 | Reform

Søren Kierkegaard is 200 this year. Rodney Wood celebrates the thinker who championed individual faith against institutional religion

In my late teens, when I should have been giving all my time to studying for my degree, I discovered Søren Kierkegaard, … Read More

Parting thoughts

02/10/2013 | Reform

David Goodbourn reflects on what matters when you have months left to live

Be careful what you preach! It was the first Sunday in Lent this year, and I spoke about entering the wilderness with Jesus. There, I said, we … Read More