December 2019/January 2020 Archives - Reform Magazine
Art in focus: December 2019/January 2020
27/12/2019 | ReformJourney of the Magi (detail) Basilica Sant’Apollinare Nuovo, mosaic
Did you send a Christmas card featuring three kings, with crowns, riding on camels against a night sky in which a special star is glinting? Lots of people did. But because … Read More
On the pilgrim way: ‘God has lifted my spirits’
22/11/2019 | ReformThe God of surprises has recently given me new hope, in unexpected places. I recently went, rather unwillingly, to our local Labour Party selection meeting, to choose our parliamentary candidate. We are a safe Conservative seat, so for Labour it … Read More
Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘How about a Christmassy change to your post-service beverage mingling?’
22/11/2019 | ReformPaul Kerensa on festive feasts
I wonder whether people loiter longer over their post-service beverages at this time of year. Surely, we crave the warmth. But instead of those biscuits, how about a Christmas change up? Mince pies might go … Read More
Editorial: Christmas or politics?
22/11/2019 | ReformThis December brings us perhaps the most important general election in a generation. An occasion of anxiety and alarm for people of quite different perspectives, of nationwide division, of misinformation, of grave decisions.
It also brings us Christmas. Which would … Read More
Reviews – December 2019/January 2020
22/11/2019 | ReformFaithful Leader’s life
A Better Ambition: Confessions of a faithful liberalTim FarronSPCK£19.99 (hardback)ISBN: 9780281083589
Context is hugely important. It shapes the way that we engage with the world around us, and our own faith. With that in mind, it was … Read More
Interview: March for progress
22/11/2019 | ReformKumi Naidoo, Secretary General of Amnesty International, talks to Stephen Tomkins
Since he took a lead in high school boycotts in apartheid South Africa at the age of 15, Kumi Naidoo has lived a life of activism and nonviolent direct … Read More
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