Reviews October 2022

03/10/2022 | Reform

Testing conventions

Doctor Who Am IDirected by Matthew Jacobs & Vanessa YuilleCertificate 12a, 80 minutesReleased in cinemas 27 October andDVD & Digital 28 November

What is a church, and why do people attend it? This is a documentary about Doctor … Read More

We are what we sing

20/09/2022 | Reform

In her new book, Fifty Hymns for Fifty Years, Anne Sardeson explores the story of the URC, one hymn at a time. She talks to Laurence Wareing about her life-long love of singing, writing hymns for the moment, and the … Read More

Reviews September 2022

20/09/2022 | Reform

Hiding from deportation

Where Is Anne FrankDirected by Ari FolmanCertificate PG, 99 minutesReleased 12 August

Amsterdam, about a year from now. Inside the Anne Frank House, Anne’s imaginary pen-friend Kitty (voiced by Ruby Stokes) materialises out of the ink from … Read More

Refugees in the manse

20/09/2022 | Reform

Nadene Snyman opened the door to a Ukrainian family

We spent hours discussing whether to offer space in our house to a Ukrainian family. There felt like so many unknowns and uncertainties.

I’m the minister at Christ Church United Reformed … Read More

The churches that make us: From Reading to New Guinea

20/09/2022 | Reform

One thread links churches from Berkshire to the Pacific, discovers Stephen Tomkins

This is a story of several churches. One of them would become Trinity URC, Reading. Christopher Fowler was a puritan minister in the town, ejected from the Church … Read More

Refugee Tales

20/09/2022 | Reform

Tom Hackett walks with asylum seekers

As I approached the quiet village of Merstham in Surrey, normally disturbed only by the sound of the M25, I expected to hear more of a crowd. I was there for the start of … Read More