Monthly Archives: October 2018

View in browser   |   Forward to a friend 18 October 2018 Hello everyone and welcome to The Week Ahead. This week we are marking Green GB Week and One World Week. Mike Ivatt will be staffing the out-of-hours media emergency support line … Continue reading →

Moderators of the United Reformed Church General Assembly joined four other Free Church leaders at three political party conferences this autumn. At each conference, the delegation spoke to MPs and Lords about issues of concern to Christians, prayed with and for political leaders at a dedicated prayer breakfast, and sought to listen and learn from… Continue reading →

Have you ever picked up a copy of the United Reformed Church’s (URC) prayer handbook and thought you could write prayers just as good as, or maybe better than, these published within it? If so, now’s your chance to put pen to paper and write a prayer or two, to three or four, for the… Continue reading →

Joint Public Issues Team Blog The things you need to know about Universal Credit Posted: 11 Oct 2018 08:45 AM PDT Universal Credit: the bad, the worse and the ugly Universal Credit has been failing badly. Over the past few … Continue reading →

View in browser   |   Forward to a friend 11 October 2018 Hi everyone and welcome to The Week Ahead. This week we are marking Prisons Week and the Week of Prayer for World Peace. Andy Jackson will be staffing the … Continue reading →

View in browser | Forward to a Friend October 2018, issue 179 Welcome to The Buzz!       The Buzz brings all members of the Methodist Church in Britain together by sharing your good news from across the Connexion. Your stories tell … Continue reading →

Joint Public Issues Team Blog Conservative Party Conference: the pastoral and the political Posted: 08 Oct 2018 08:53 AM PDT Send your spirit upon them Lord, strengthen them for the task to which they are called. But let us not … Continue reading →

The Methodist Church October 2018 Can’t read this? Click here World Church Relationships A Life-changing experience in Rwanda by Jasmine Yeboah, Methodist Youth President I saw the film Hotel Rwanda in my RE class in secondary school. As I sat with tears in my … Continue reading →

UK churches have welcomed a report calling for radical economic change. Prosperity and Justice: A plan for a new economy concludes the work of the Institute for Public Policy Research Commission on Economic Justice which has analysed every aspect of the UK economy since autumn 2016. The report argues that the economy is not working… Continue reading →

‘Practising this habit is particularly important because it can literally make the world of difference,’ says Andrew Roberts, author of Holy Habits, as he introduces the United Reformed Church’s film, ‘The Holy Habit of Sharing’. This film is the third in a short series that explores each theme featured in Mr Roberts’ book. Read More… Continue reading →