Monthly Archives: May 2018

The Methodist Church 17 May 2018 Can’t read this? Click here  The Week Ahead   Hello everyone, and welcome to The Week Ahead from the Methodist Church Media Office. This week, we continue our ten days of prayer with Thy Kingdom Come; we mark … Continue reading →

Joint Public Issues Team Blog Response to the Government’s announcement on gambling machines Posted: 17 May 2018 01:31 AM PDT   The Government’s announcement on gambling machines – a response from the Baptist Union, the Church of Scotland, the Methodist … Continue reading →

The United Reformed Church has joined a group of churches and faith-based organisations and issued a welcome to the government’s response to the review of fixed odds betting terminals (FOBTs). In a statement, the URC, The Salvation Army, The Methodist Church, The Church of Scotland, The Baptist Union of Great Britain, the Evangelical Alliance UK,… Continue reading →

The Methodist Church May 2018 Can’t read this? Click here World Church Relationships In this edition of World Church News, we read of times of joy and pain in Papua New Guinea, moving moments in Jerusalem, promising change in Pakistan and more. Joy and pain … Continue reading →

Joint Public Issues Team Blog Asylum Applications and Christian Belief The starless midnight of Gaza – praying for peace Pulling the plug on the Iran deal Power posing: cause for concern? Good Ruddance to the hostile environment? Minimum Unit Pricing … Continue reading →

The Revd Philip Brooks, United Reformed Church Secretary of Ecumenical and Interfaith Relations, visited Israel last month and took part in an Israel-Palestinian task group to learn about and educate the denomination on issues affecting Israel and Palestine ahead of a denominational tour in 2019. He reflects on his trip in the wake of the… Continue reading →

For the past two years, the Revd Kevin Watson and Mr Alan Yates, Moderators of the United Reformed Church, have chaired General Assembly and other meetings, and travelled around exploring local congregations. As they approach the end of their term, in an interview with Reform magazine, the Moderators look back on whether the past two… Continue reading →

The Methodist Church 10 May 2018 Can’t read this? Click here  The Week Ahead   Hi everyone and welcome to The Week Ahead. Today, we celebrate Ascension Day and the beginning of Thy Kingdom Come. Mike Ivatt will be staffing the out-of-hours support line … Continue reading →

The Methodist Church View this email in your browser News release 10 May 2018 Ascension Day statement on overcoming religious intolerance Facebook Twitter The President and Vice-President of the Methodist Conference, the Revd Loraine N Mellor and Jill Baker, have … Continue reading →

Figures released by The Trussell Trust – Britain’s largest foodbank network – show that more families are being forced to use foodbanks to meet their day-to-day needs. Analysis of foodbanks in areas where there has been full Universal Credit (UC) rollouts, show that these projects experienced an average increase of 52% in the 12 months… Continue reading →