Editorial: Counting down the days to Advent

29/11/2021 | Reform

I have realised, to my surprise, that these days I prefer the first day of Advent to Christmas Day. Growing up in a non-liturgical family (‘Liturgy is fossilised worship!’), Advent passed us by, apart from its calendar. I was in … Read More

Editorial: Pagan Gods

02/11/2021 | Reform

Warning! This editorial contains SPOILERS for the latest James Bond film. Don’t read it unless you’ve either seen No Time to Die, or don’t ever intend to.

James Bond, the not terribly secret agent, has existed as a film hero … Read More

Editorial: The voice of disruption

24/09/2021 | Reform

I ended last month’s editorial on the climate crisis with the conclusion that ‘I need to put my history books to one side and take to the streets’.

Saying I’ll do something doesn’t always make it happen, but this time … Read More

Editorial: Putting the history books to one side

31/08/2021 | Reform

What does it say about me, that when anything huge happens on a national or international scale, I think about it in terms of what questions kids will have to answer about it in the history exams of the future? … Read More

Editorial: Where does hope come from?

29/06/2021 | Reform

Before the G7 summit in Cornwall in June, religious leaders, as we report in News (pages 5–7), put all the pressure that they could on the politicians involved to achieve constructive agreements to take action on things that matter.

They … Read More

Editorial: Something to say

28/05/2021 | Reform

When I became editor of Reform in 2013, the team and I reworked the design and content of the magazine. The one idea I had that no one went with was dropping the editorial. I figured no one particularly wanted … Read More