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Members, ministers and friends of the United Reformed Church gathered in London on 15 April to mark the denomination’s 50th anniversary. Around 1,200 people attended the rail strike-postponed celebrations at Methodist Central Hall Westminster, the same place that English Congregationalists and Presbyterians gathered on 5 October 1972 to vote the º£½ÇÖ±²¥ into being. Decorations created […]

Luton Peace Walk, organised by Luton Council of Faiths (LCoF) and Grassroots, became a winner at Bedfordshire Police Community Cohesion Awards sixth annual ceremony. The Walk won the Cohesion Award in the category of Promoting Diversity and was collected by David Jonathan MBE, a member of Bury Park United Reformed Church in Thames North Synod, […]

Christian Aid and Churches Together in Britain and Ireland (CTBI) have brought together more than a dozen leading Christian thinkers and theologians to discuss the legacy of Stephen Lawrence’s racist killing, and the current state of race-relations in church and society in Britain and Ireland. The results of these conversations are available in a stunning […]

The United Reformed Church (º£½ÇÖ±²¥) North-Western Synod has been awarded its first Eco-Synod award. It is now the º£½ÇÖ±²¥’s second synod to have reached A Rocha UK’s Bronze Eco-Synod Award status, West Midlands being the first in March 2021. To apply for the award, the Revd Daleen Ten Cate, North Western Synod’s Missional Discipleship Mentor […]

The Revd Cara Heafey, Minister of Marston and Wheatley United Reformed churches in Oxford, offers us this reflection for Easter Sunday. At Easter we celebrate that there is no darkness that love cannot reach, no tomb that love cannot break open, no depths from which love cannot raise us up. This is no superficial joy; […]

A statement signed by more than 1450 church leaders opposing the government’s Illegal Migration Bill has been handed to 10 Downing Street. The Revd Dr Tessa Henry-Robinson, United Reformed Church General Assembly Moderator-Elect 2022-2023, helped deliver the statement in which the church leaders say that the government’s proposals are “incompatible with our Christian conviction that […]