Art in focus: September 2019

27/09/2019 | Reform

The Ancient of DaysWilliam Blake, etching and watercolour

It’s a very bold thing to do, to picture God. But this didn’t deter the visionary artist William Blake. He made this image of the Ancient of Days – the title taken … Read More

Interview: A liberal helping

23/08/2019 | Reform

Tim Farron MP talks to Stephen Tomkins

Tim Farron became Leader of the Liberal Democrats in 2015, to pick up the pieces after the party was decimated in a general election that reduced its Westminster seats from 57 to eight. … Read More

Compassionate communities in Coventry

23/08/2019 | Reform

Hospital chaplains in Coventry are taking the services they offer out of the hospital into the wider community. Paul Holmes, Chaplaincy Team Leader, reports

In recent years, the chaplaincy at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire has extended its work with … Read More

A letter from… Budapest

23/08/2019 | Reform

Balázs Ódor writes from the Church in Budapest, Hungary

It is deucedly difficult to tell a lie when you don’t know the truth,’ reads the opening sentence of a rather famous book, Celestial Harmonies, by the Hungarian writer, Péter Esterházy. … Read More

Chapter & verse: Luke 16:1-13

23/08/2019 | Reform 1

Rosalind Selby grapples with a puzzling parable

This parable can only be found in Luke’s Gospel, and it’s a parable many of us might feel puzzled mightily by. Unlike, say, the parable of the good Samaritan, where it’s rather clearer … Read More

I am… a haemophiliac

23/08/2019 | Reform

Olly Black on living with haemophilia

I kept getting bruises all over when I was six months old. My dad’s mum thought my mum and dad were beating me. They took me for tests, and found out I had genetic … Read More