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In this reflection for New Year’s Day, Jo Harris, United Reformed Church Youth Moderator, explores what she’ll be focusing on tin 2023: Another year has been and gone and I suddenly find myself wondering what my resolutions are going to be next year. I’m pondering over the ideas in my head about what might be: […]

The Revd Dr Tessa Henry-Robinson, a URC Minister and Moderator-Elect of the URC General Assembly, the first ethnically-minoritised woman to be elected to the role, reflects on the column written by Jeremy Clarkson in The Sun about Meghan Markle, the Duchess of Sussex, which is now the most complained about newspaper article ever, and the lack […]

The Revd Clare Downing, currently Moderator for the United Reformed Church’s (URC) Wessex Synod, has been nominated as the Transitional Moderator of the North Western Synod. Clare has been the Wessex Synod Moderator since 2011, and has previously served at Braunstone and Evington Road, Leicester, and in a Special Category ministry specialising in inter-faith issues […]

The Revd Kim Plumpton has been nominated to serve as Moderator of the United Reformed Church (URC) Northern Synod after the Revd Dave Herbert retires next year. Kim graduated from Westminster College, Cambridge, and has served at Cobham United Church, Cobham Methodist and Effingham Methodist Churches since 2010. Educated in Harrogate in social care, Kim […]

In this year’s Christmas day reflection, the Revd Fiona Bennett, URC General Assembly Moderator, reads from Luke 2 (MSG), and contrasts TV advert depiction of the special day with reality and how it doesn’t always measure up to those expectations. Fiona shares with us how the true joy of Christmas runs much deeper than the […]

The Revd Fiona Bennett, Moderator of the United Reformed Church (URC) General Assembly, has joined 450 other Christian leaders in challenging the government’s decision to approve a new, deep coal mine in West Cumbria. In an open letter to Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and Secretary of State for Levelling Up Michael Gove, the Church leaders and […]