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Around the URC in seven days: 21-27 July 2025

A round-up of news from across the United Reformed Church over the past seven days: 21-27 July. North Western Synod ARC Blackburn and Darwen Asylum Refugee Enterprise (DARE) is celebrating good news. Its three-year Partnership Fund application with The National … Continue reading

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Gwen Hall, pioneering lay leader in the CCEW and the URC, 1926-2025

The United Reformed Church (URC) is saddened to share that Gwen Hall, a pioneering lay leader in its life and one of the people central to the union of the Presbyterian Church of England (PCE) and the Congregational Church of … Continue reading

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Why we handed in a letter to the Government asking them to Stop Rosebank… 

On Wednesday the 23rd July we handed in a letter at the Department of Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) to ask Sir Keir Starmer to stop the Rosebank oil field. This is the same day the International Court of … Continue reading

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Christians Urge Abandonment of Fossil Fuels

At lunchtime today a letter on behalf of 18 Christian organisations and denominations – including the Baptist Union, United Reformed Church and Methodist Church – was delivered to the Prime Minister and the Secretary of State for Energy Security and … Continue reading

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Reform magazine: Issue 5 2025

The work of “prophetic activism” runs powerfully through the latest edition of Reform. Niall Cooper, stepping down after 28 years as Director of Church Action on Poverty, argues that churches have more power to bring about change than they realise. … Continue reading

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Dancing with God: a journey to ministry training

From Edinburgh to London to Newcastle, from bank apprenticeship to PhD and university researcher, Ann Sinclair’s journey to Non-Stipendiary Ministry has been one of faith, growth, and divine choreography. Ann, a member of St Andrew’s URC Monkseaton in the Northern … Continue reading

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Reach out in peace: Positive preparation for times of unrest

When tensions rise in communities, churches can be agents of peace, compassion, sanctuary, solidarity and support. Below we suggest five ways that church leaders can prepare positively – to be ready to lead, respond and care well at times of … Continue reading

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Lobbying MPs for Climate Justice

Members of the Baptist Union, Methodist Church and United Reformed Church lobbied members of parliament for climate justice last week. On Wednesday 9 July, around 5000 people from throughout the UK came together in London to ask MPs to act … Continue reading

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Around the URC in seven days: 7-14 July 2025 

A round up of news from around the United Reformed Church over the past seven days, 7-14 July 2025.  East Midlands SynodYoung and old flocked to East Midlands Synod’s first Picnic in the Park event to enjoy worship, workshops and … Continue reading

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Young Messy Church helper gains Lundie award

Fourteen-year-old James Ineichen, from United Reformed Church Mersey Synod, has been named June’s recipient of the Lundie Memorial Award. James, who was nominated by Susan Frowe, an Elder and Messy Church leader at Christchurch Port Sunlight in the Wirral. Susan … Continue reading

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