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''Reform'', also referred to as ''Reform Magazine'', is an editorially-independent subscription magazine published ten times a year by the United Reformed Church (URC). The editorial team is based at URC House in London. ''Reform'' was first published in the year the URC was formed, 1972. The magazine explores theology, ethics, personal spirituality and Christian perspectives on social and current affairs. Articles are written by journalists, academics, politicians, campaigners, scientists and religious leaders. As well as interviews, features and book, music and film reviews, ''Reform'' carries regular lighthearted and anecdotal columns, a crossword, poetry and letters. It is currently edited by Stephen Tomkins. ''Reforms interviewees have included: former
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Jonathan Bartley Jonathan Charles Bartley (born 16 October 1971) is a British politician and was Co-Leader of the Green Party of England and Wales, a position he shared with Caroline Lucas and then, from 4 September 2018, with Siân Berry. He was the Green P ...
, poets
Benjamin Zephaniah Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958)Gregory, Andy (2002), ''International Who's Who in Popular Music 2002'', Europa, p. 562. . is a British writer and dub poet. He was included in ''The Times'' list of Britain's top 50 post-w ...
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Stewart Henderson Stewart Henderson (born 5 June 1947) is a Scottish former footballer who played in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion and Reading Reading is the process of taking in the sense or meaning of Letter (alphabet), letters, symbols, e ...
, Bafta-award-winning broadcaster
Robert Beckford Robert Beckford (born 1965) is a British academic theologian and currently Professor of Black Theology at The Queen's Foundation, whose documentaries for both the BBC and Channel 4 have caused debate among the Christian and British religious ...
, novelist
Marilynne Robinson Marilynne Summers Robinson (born November 26, 1943) is an American novelist and essayist. Across her writing career, Robinson has received numerous awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2005, National Humanities Medal in 2012, and ...
, cofounder of Hillsong Church Bobbie Houston, historian
Diarmaid MacCulloch Diarmaid Ninian John MacCulloch (; born 31 October 1951) is an English academic and historian, specialising in ecclesiastical history and the history of Christianity. Since 1995, he has been a fellow of St Cross College, Oxford; he was form ...
, and theologian Paula Gooder. Though published by the URC, it has readers of all faiths and none.


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