Author Archives: URC

The United Reformed Church (URC) has joined Let’s End Poverty, a major new social movement launched to help bring an end to poverty experienced throughout the UK. The campaigns urges people to call for politicians to make the end of … Continue reading →

Your prayers for the United Reformed Church 2025 Prayer Handbook, with the theme Immersive Joy, are now invited. Wherever you are, wherever you have been, whatever the journey which moves you to write, we would love to hear from you. … Continue reading →

Thanks to grants from the United Reformed Church (URC) Children’s and Youth Work (CYW) Team, 15 clubs were supported this summer with a grant of either £50 or £100. For some churches, this was their first holiday club while others … Continue reading →

Last Updated on 8 November 2023 by Ann-Marie Nye A round-up of news from around the United Reformed Church over the past seven days: 9-15 November. Mersey Synod Christ Church United Reformed Church in Port Sunlight, with the assistance of … Continue reading →

Last Updated on 6 November 2023 by Ann-Marie Nye As he came near and saw the city, he wept over it,  saying, “If you, even you, had only recognized on this day the things that make for peace!Luke 19 v41-42 … Continue reading →

Padre David C Haslem, a United Reformed Church minister serving within the Royal Air Force reflects on Remembrance 2023: Lest we Forget are the words chiselled on the first main Cenotaph following the First World War. The building of The … Continue reading →

Last Updated on 2 November 2023 by Ann-Marie Nye A round-up of news from around the United Reformed Church (URC) over the past seven days, 2-8 November 2023. A Bake-Off style competition and charity cake sale was held at United … Continue reading →

Last Updated on 31 October 2023 by Ann-Marie Nye Newport Pagnell United Reformed Church alongside its community project, The Mead Centre, have become official Guinness World Record breakers. On 16 October, the church and community project alongside 250 organisations, collectively … Continue reading →

Last Updated on 31 October 2023 by Ann-Marie Nye Christian Aid and more than 20 church leaders and Christian organisations are calling for a ceasefire and all governments with influence to bring an immediate end to the violence in Israel … Continue reading →

In the November edition of Reform, Stephen Tomkins speaks to Anthony Reddie, recently appointed Oxford University’s first ever Professor of Black Theology. They talk whiteness, the Church’s role in empire-building, and the decision to roll out anti-racist training across the … Continue reading →