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The Revd Jenny Mills, United Reformed Church Secretary for Education and Learning, offers this journey-themed prayer to mark Epiphany. A journey. From the East. Strangers, travelling, following a star….til it stopped. Finding the unexpected. And stopping, to pay homage. The rich encountering the ordinary. And bowing in praise. Sensing that this was something that would […]

Andy Jackson and Carol Rogers pays tribute to Reform’s Editor from 1977 to 1995 Norman Hart, the Editor of Reform for 18 years from 1977 to 1995, died on 19 September on his 91st birthday. Beginning his career in 1953 as a graduate trainee with the Liverpool Daily Post, Norman found a love of ‘light’ […]

In this reflection for New Year’s Day, the Revd Alex Clare-Young, a Pioneer Minister in the United Reformed Church, offers this comic script depicting a conversation between two characters along the themes of newness, transformation, and the opportunities that celebrating the URC’s 50th jubilee presents for this. Triangle Character: Happy New Year! Circle Character: Well, What’s […]

It is so hard to not get caught up in the commercial side of Christmas. Reuben Watt, Moderator of the United Reformed Church Youth Assembly, asks: “What happens if we stripped back the lights, the carol singers, the Christmas tree and go back 2000 years to Jesus laid in a manger surrounded by his parents? […]

It is with deep sadness that the United Reformed Church (URC) announces the death of Peter Pay, Moderator of the URC General Assembly, a former Synod Clerk and an Assembly Accredited Lay Preacher who was a member of Salisbury URC. Mr Pay had been living with a malignant brain tumour for some time and had […]

The United Reformed Church has created a special intergenerational book to help celebrate the URC’s 50th anniversary. Celebrate Together is a lively, colourful picture book designed for families to share together, and is being made available free of charge for all members of, and those connected to, the URC. The story, written by the URC’s […]