Monthly Archives: December 2025

After COP30: Balancing Lament & Hope

Posted on December 18, 2025 by Littlehampton United

Watching from afar through headlines and Instagram posts, I was unsure how to feel about COP30 last month. As a former youth climate striker, my teenage sense of optimism has been somewhat dampened. The more I learn about politics, negotiation, and multilateral cooperation, the more exasperated I become. It’s easy to be cynical towards COP as a … Continue reading →

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Child poverty: a step forward

Posted on December 10, 2025 by Littlehampton United

JPIT’s Paul Morrison explains the context for the response from faith leaders to the government’s child poverty strategy Today faith leaders have responded to last week’s child poverty strategy. The headline from the strategy, and the headline from the leaders’ … Continue reading →

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Child poverty strategy “a welcome step in the right direction”, say faith leaders

Posted on December 10, 2025 by Littlehampton United

Senior faith leaders have issued a joint response to the government’s recently published Child Poverty Strategy. In it, they “celebrate” the most significant policy change in the strategy, the removal of the two-child limit on benefits, which is set to … Continue reading →

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Is Tommy Robinson the person to put Christ back into Christmas?

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Littlehampton United

What will Unite the Kingdom’s rally really put into Christmas? Every year, there are calls to ‘put Christ back into Christmas’. The gospel good news message of love, peace, goodwill and hope embodied in Christ’s coming is desperately needed in … Continue reading →

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‘Good news of great joy… for all!’

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Littlehampton United

Supporting churches to respond to the co-option of Christmas by the Far Right Local churches across the UK will already have well-developed plans for celebrating Christmas – both in our church buildings and with our wider communities. Each of us … Continue reading →

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Human Rights Day

Posted on December 3, 2025 by Littlehampton United

On 10 December, people around the world mark Human Rights Day. Human rights protected by the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) include the rights to life, free elections, a fair trial, freedom of expression, freedom of thought, conscience and … Continue reading →

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Stark risks for UK’s churches, says NCT survey

Posted on December 3, 2025 by URC

In a report based on its national survey of churches in the UK, the National Churches Trust (NCT) paints a mixed picture of the state of local church buildings and the fortunes of their congregations. The survey, NCT’s first for … Continue reading →

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Northern Synod member appears on new BBC documentary

Posted on December 1, 2025 by URC

A member of the United Reformed Church has featured on a new BBC documentary about the British Empire. Empire with David Olusoga comprising, three episodes, is available on BBC iPlayer. [embedded content] Patricia Poinen, a member of Northgate United Reformed … Continue reading →

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