Art in Focus – June 2020

26/06/2020 | Reform

Die Speisung (The Feeding)Nikola Saric, watercolour on canvas

The Serbian German painter Nikola Sarić came to sudden prominence in 2015 because of his Icon of the Holy Martyrs of Libya (see ‘Art in focus’, Reform, September 2018.) Sarić was horrified … Read More

Use well the interval

29/05/2020 | Reform

The pandemic is an opportunity to change things permanently, argues Jill Segger

We are in a strange land. A place of quarantine, self isolation, shielding, social distancing and loneliness. We are exiles from our normal lives and from much which … Read More

Consider the birds

29/05/2020 | Reform

Your mind does not have to be confined when your body is. A true story from the Second World War by Dixe Wills

Being in lockdown is a bind, isn’t it? All those activities we could have been getting on … Read More

Bacon sandwich, chocolate biscuits and us

29/05/2020 | Reform

Kath Sharman reflects on faith amid difficult family life

I wasn’t prepared for the phone call from Dad on that bright and breezy morning in March, asking where Mum was. At one time, I would have had a flippant answer … Read More

Chapter & Verse: 2 Corinthians 1:3

29/05/2020 | Reform

John Proctor revisits the wisdom of 2 Corinthians

I worked for several months of my ministerial training on the Second Letter to the Corinthians. Not the easiest book of the Bible, it has stayed with me across the decades and … Read More

Commitment-Phobe: Locked in

29/05/2020 | Reform

Navigating self discovery in lockdown

I am writing this in early May, after seven weeks of lockdown in the UK. But by the time you are reading this, lockdown may be over and social distancing will be easing. Or not. … Read More