A good question: Etes-vous Charlie?

24/02/2015 | Reform

Each month we ask one question and get four answers. This month, after protesters and politicians expressed solidarity with the cartoonists killed in Paris with the slogan “Je suis Charlie”, we ask: Are you Charlie?

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Reviews – March 2015

24/02/2015 | Reform

The true King

Selma Directed by Ava DuVernay Certificate 12A, 128 minutes Released 6 February

This account of the epoch-making march at Selma, Alabama, deserves comparison to films that were cinematically epoch-making themselves, including Gandhi and Schindler’s … Read More

Pope Francis interview: When in Rome

24/02/2015 | Reform

An extract from Pope Francis: Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio

Pope Francis has defied expectations. He has not behaved as we expect popes to behave, but carries his own bags and shunned the Popemobile in favour of buses. He has not … Read More

A grief supported

24/02/2015 | Reform

How can a family be sustained through the loss of a child? David Ireland reflects on the ministry of bereavement support

Bereavement support is about listening carefully, never assuming that you understand someone’s situation, being alongside but never being directive … Read More

There for me

24/02/2015 | Reform

Madeleine Davies remembers the help she received after she lost her mother at the age of 12

Mothers who die young, leaving behind small children, are quite common in literature. I grew up reading Anne of Green Gables and What … Read More

A Bleak Hat

24/02/2015 | Reform

A poem by Lucy Berry

“Doctors have performed the first organ transplants from a newborn in the UK. In a procedure described as a milestone in neonatal care, a six-day-old baby girl’s kidneys and liver cells were given to two … Read More