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The United Reformed Church (URC’s) Black History Monthly continues on 20 September, from 7.30-8.30pm on Zoom, with this month’s theme ‘Media and Imagery: The Impact of Representation’. Drawing on a short video talk by Aisha Thomas, Assistant Principal at City Academy in Bristol, and one of only 26 Black secondary school teachers of 1,346 in […]

The Revd Clare Downing, Moderator of the United Reformed Church General Assembly, has joined more than 350 church and civil society leaders in expressing concern about government proposals to restrict protest and increase police powers. In an open letter to the Home Secretary and Lord Chancellor, released last weekend, the leaders voiced concern about several […]

More than 150 people, including the deputy Mayor of Liverpool Cllr Jane Corbett, attended the induction of the Revd Geoff Felton as Moderator of the United Reformed Church (URC) Mersey Synod. Other denominational heads including the Rt Revd Paul Bayes, the Anglican Bishop of Liverpool; the Rt Revd Julie Conalty, Bishop of Birkenhead; the Most […]

August’s Lundie Memorial Award goes to Andrew and Daniel Shaw, from St Columba’s United Reformed Church (URC), Wolverhampton. The brothers, aged 15 and 13, are dedicated volunteers at the Community School Swap Shop which is part of the church’s eco-church work. They sort clothes, find and bag up the correct uniform and sizes for people […]

As the 20th anniversary of September 11th approaches, the United Reformed Church joins with the Revd Jennifer Mills-Knutsen, Senior Pastor of the American International Church in London, in offering this reflection: I wish I could remember this event as the tragedy it was, rather than the tragedy it still is. The 2,977 souls who lost […]

The United Reformed Church (URC) has launched an appeal to help Haitians whose country has been devastated by a catastrophic earthquake and tropical storm. The appeal aims to raise £2,000 to help people affected by the 7.2-magnitude earthquake which struck Haiti at Les Cayes, 75 miles west of the capital of Port-au-Prince, on 14 August. […]