Art in focus: April 2019

27/04/2019 | Reform

Ecce HomoLovis Corinth

Three faces tell the story of a betrayal. Here is the moment when Pilate, the Roman governor, shows the scourged, bound and crowned Jesus to the people, with the words ‘Behold the man’. The painter has made … Read More

Donald Norwood: Brexit regrets

01/04/2019 | Reform

Donald Norwood laments the Churches’ failures over Brexit

Brexit is a mess. Here we can all agree. A case could be made for and against remaining in the European Union but it needed to have been made clearly and honestly. … Read More

Interview: A long way to go

01/04/2019 | Reform

Justin Butcher, actor, writer and social activist, talks to Stephen Tomkins

In 2017, Justin Butcher walked to Jerusalem. Setting off from Trafalgar Square in London on 10 June, he arrived 20 weeks later on 2 November.

The walk was … Read More

A good question: How should we eat?

01/04/2019 | Reform

One question, four answers

These are extracts from an article that was published in the April 2019 edition of Reform

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Under the sign of a joke

01/04/2019 | Reform

Simon Jenkins on the horror and humour of the Passion

In a bare room, at the end of a rope suspended from the ceiling, a man is hanging upside down, his wrists tightly bound, his hair brushing the floorboards as … Read More

Look to the skies

01/04/2019 | Reform

How tragedy was averted, by plane

In 2013, 23-year-old Elizita Cardoso, a young mother in Suai, Timor-Leste (formerly known as East Timor) was looking forward to the arrival of twins. Her feelings of joy turned to fear when she began … Read More