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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 […]

Good Friday is the saddest day of the Church’s year when we remember the execution of Jesus after a rushed, illegal, night-time trial. We stand at the Cross bewildered at it all, trying to find meaning but appalled at the injustice and hatred of it all. The United Reformed Church’s Minister for Digital Worship, the […]

Today we remember Jesus sharing in the simplicity of a meal with his friends, where he offered himself in the simple things of bread and wine – and continues to offer himself to us in bread and wine in the Communion service.  We also remember Judas betraying Jesus with the simplicity of a kiss. The […]

A round-up of news from around the United Reformed Church over the past seven days. Young Leicester church member donates hair for charity Upon learning that many children living with cancer lose their hair during treatment, nine-year-old Etta-Mae, from Abbots Road URC in Leicester, decided to do what she could to help. Inspired by her […]