Niall Cooper: Hope within the wilderness

27/03/2014 | Reform

Finding hope in today’s bleak climate

We live in bleak times, and are bombarded by bad news. At times, we may feel discouraged, hopeless and impotent in the face of spending cuts and rising prices, whose impacts are bearing increasingly … Read More

Jumble Sales of the apocalypse: Victorian Lent

27/03/2014 | Reform

Simon Jenkins on the rigours of Victorian Lent

Mars and Flake, Twix and Galaxy, KitKat, Milky Way and Aero. They are like the seven deadly sins in churches up and down the land each spring. Have you ever thought about … Read More

Ukraine: A country always on the edge

27/03/2014 | Reform

Meic Pearse considers what Ukraine’s past tells us about the present and future

Few countries illustrate better the “clash of civilisations” thesis of the late great Professor Samuel Huntington than does Ukraine. Indeed, its very name means “borderland”. According to … Read More

A radical unwelcome

27/03/2014 | Reform

Fleur Houston fears letting in the Immigration Bill

The Immigration Bill is designed, the government says, to “create a really hostile environment” for people who do not have a legal right to be in the UK. In fact, it creates … Read More

Resurrection in the margins

27/03/2014 | Reform

Why does the risen Christ insist on leading his followers back 
to Galilee? Andrew Mayes investigates

Mark’s Gospel has the most enigmatic ending – the risen Christ does not appear in the Gospel at all. Instead, coming to the tomb … Read More

Map-reading 
for pilgrims

27/03/2014 | Reform

Navigating this world is hard enough, let alone the next. Chris Avis asks directions

Give me a map and I’m lost. In my experience, the simple printed route of A to B on paper soon conspires to traverse the whole … Read More