A theatre of healing

28/02/2024 | Reform

As playwright and performer Jo Clifford prepares to take her one-woman show, The Gospel According to Jesus, Queen of Heaven, to America, she reflects on the need for healing and empathy to be practiced in the theatre and Church alike … Read More

Reviews March 2024

28/02/2024 | Reform

Scarred for life

Silver HazeDirected by Sacha PolakCertificate 15, 102 minutesReleased 29 March

As a small child in real life, the actor Vicky Knight was burned in a fire. Today, her body still bears the physical scars of the trauma … Read More

Editorial: Attitudes to wealth, poverty and class

28/02/2024 | Reform

What do these words all have in common? Villain, rascal, knave, clown, blackguard, mean, vulgar, churlish, boorish, vile…

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This is an extract from an article published in the February 2024 edition of Reform

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Art in Focus: March 2024

28/02/2024 | Reform

Self Portrait as a Shopping TrolleyOil on canvas, 2021Kate Wilson

If you were asked to think of yourself as an everyday object, what would it be?…

Art in focus is curated by Meryl Doney

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A good question: Christianity: Left? Right?Neutral?

28/02/2024 | Reform

One question, four answers

Peter Knowles‘Identifying faith with party is too easy’

It is wildly obvious to most writers for this magazine, and preachers and prayer writers in our tradition, that Christianity leans to the left….

Peter Knowles is a … Read More

The kindness of strangers

28/02/2024 | Reform

Colin Thompson tells the remarkable story of a Jewish girl saved from Czechoslovakia in 1939

My mother, Hertha, celebrated her 100th birthday on 17 July last year. The story of how she came to be in this country at all … Read More