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When Her Majesty the Queen celebrated her Platinum Jubilee in June, United Reformed Churches and LEPs rolled out the red, white and blue carpets to welcome members and friends for hundreds of activities over the extra-long Bank Holiday weekend. Andy Jackson found some jubilee gems: St Columba’s URC, North Shields, offered a fabulous recreation of […]

91ÖÆƬ³§ (URC) is deeply saddened to hear about the sudden death of the Revd Elizabeth Clark, who served as the National Rural Officer for both the URC and the Methodist churches until her retirement in August last year. An announcement from The Arthur Rank Centre, the ecumenical charity which resources, trains, and […]

‘It should feel costly.’ This month, Reform is asking the question facing the United Reformed Church at General Assembly: how should the Church respond to the legacies of slavery? Our interviewee, Cole Arthur Riley, creator of ‘Black Liturgies’, says that we should give dear enough reparations that ‘it should feel like a loss.’ Others have […]

A Harwich-based Church Related Community Work project is set to receive £100,000 in increased funding. The Lounge in Esplanade Hall, which provides a shared space for local people who are particularly isolated or vulnerable is led by Mark Tubby, Project Community Worker for Dovercourt Central Church, who works alongside the Salvation Army and Church of […]

Greenbelt Festival is set for a jubilant return this year with a long weekend of artistry, activism and belief right here in the East Midlands in the beautiful grounds of Boughton House. Musicians Brian Eno, Martyn Joseph and The Magic Numbers and speakers Simon Armitage, John Bell, Caroline Lucas, Renni Eddo-Lodge and Rowan Williams are […]

The Revd Kirsty Thorpe, Minister of Wilmslow United Reformed Church, with the support of the Revd Mike Walsh, Special Category Minister for Chorlton and Whalley Contemporary Spirituality, offers this prayer to mark the fifth anniversary of the Manchester Arena Bombing where 22 people died and 1,017 injured as a result of a suicide bombing: Five […]