Interview: Going for green

26/08/2016 | Reform

Jonathan Bartley, joint candidate for leader of the Green Party, talks to Stephen Tomkins and Charissa King

On 2 September, the Green Party may or may not announce its new leader. If it does not, it will make history – … Read More

Interview: 1517 and all that

06/07/2016 | Reform

Historian and TV presenter Diarmaid MacCulloch talks to Stephen Tomkins

Five centuries ago next year, a teacher at an obscure university in Wittenberg, Germany, hung 95 discussion starters on the church door for his students on the subject of the … Read More

Interview: Into the woods

27/05/2016 | Reform

The writer and community founder Tobias Jones talks to Stephen Tomkins

In 2005, the writer Tobias Jones spent a year touring alternative communities in Britain and Italy with his family, in the hope of finding a way of life free … Read More

Robert Beckford Interview: Faith, Films and Theology

03/05/2016 | Reform 1

Kay Parris meets theologian, author and Bafta-award-winning broadcaster Robert Beckford

On a grey but close day, with no windows open, the low-ceilinged lobby outside Robert Beckford’s office at Goldsmith’s College in London – at the top of what feels like … Read More

Marilynne Robinson interview: The faith behind the fiction

03/05/2016 | Reform

Multiple award-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson reflects on two related themes – the importance of religion and the mysteries of the mind.
 Interview by Kay Parris

Writing in the Times shortly after the publication of Marilynne Robinson’s third novel in 2008, … Read More

Interview: Hard love

22/04/2016 | Reform

Terri Roberts, whose son committed a school shooting, talks to Stephen Tomkins

To lose a son in a school shooting is a mother’s nightmare. But how does she cope with discovering that he was also the gunman? On 2 October … Read More