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The United Reformed Church (URC) has made a confession and apology for the role of its antecedents in transatlantic slavery and its continuing complicity in the legacies of the trade today. At its General Assembly, held from 8-11 July at The Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick, the URC passed two resolutions pertaining to the topic. […]

The Revd Helen Everard, Chaplain to the Moderator, led prayers on the fourth day of Assembly at The Hayes Conference Centre in Swanwick. Session ten Remaindered business Paper B/D/M 1 Assembly Accredited Lay Pioneers and the Newbigin Pioneering Hub This paper, having been remaindered from session one to give the committee involved in the Hub time […]

Worship on the third morning of General Assembly was led by the Revd Helen Everard, Chaplain to the Moderator. Meg Warner, Lecturer in Old Testament and Biblical Hebrew at Northern College, Manchester, led a second Bible study on Leviticus 25 – some of which, she warned is very difficult for us to deal with as […]

Worship on the second morning of General Assembly was led by the Revd Lindsey Sanderson, Chaplain to the Moderator. Meg Warner, Lecturer in Old Testament and biblical Hebrew, led a Bible study on Leviticus 25. Ms Warner received ironic cheers from the Assembly audience when she announced, ‘We’re going to be spending a lot of time […]

The United Reformed Church General Assembly has made history by electing its first woman BAME Moderator-Elect. The Revd Dr Tessa Henry-Robinson, Minister of Wanstead URC, Trinity Walthamstow URC, Grange Park URC, and Gants Hill URC in the Thames North Synod, was elected URC General Assembly Moderator-Elect 2022-2023 at its annual meeting, which took place from […]

The 2022 General Assembly of the United Reformed Church (URC), meeting both in-person and online, started with worship led by the Revds Helen Everard and Lindsey Sanderson, Chaplains to the Moderators 2021-2022 and 2022-2023. Worship included the hymn God of the Pilgrim Way, by the Revd Colin Thompson, one of the winners of the URC’s […]