The Art of Welcome

25/04/2025 | Reform

If a welcome was what you were looking for, it was easy to find at the 2025 URC Youth Assembly

‘All are welcome’ was the theme for the 2025 URC Youth Assembly – held this year in a new venue, … Read More

Travel in Hope

25/04/2025 | Reform

In February, representatives of different Churches and nations visited the Holy Land, responding to a call for solidarity. Here, some of those who took part report and reflect

Kevin SnymanURC Programme Officer for Global Justice and Partnerships

At the end … Read More

Give my Spirit Voice

25/04/2025 | Reform

As the URC celebrates 35 years of Rejoice and Sing, Stephen Tomkins hears from David Thompson the story of creating the hymnbook at the heart of the Church

The idea of producing a hymnbook for the United Reformed Church was … Read More

On the pilgrim way ‘It was a coming together of a part of the Church which had now dispersed’

25/04/2025 | Reform

Sheila Maxey enjoys a Church reunion

It is 20 months since Brentwood United Reformed Church closed. Last Christmas I received an email from C who, with her husband and son, moved away from Brentwood about two years before the closure. … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Psalm 23

25/04/2025 | Reform

Stephen Tomkins finds fresh consolation in the best-loved scripture of all

What is there to say about the best-loved scripture of all? One thing is that it is also the most intimate. Other scriptures tell me God is our father … Read More

Songs of Faith: Stephen Newell & Naomi Sharp

25/04/2025 | Reform

Stephen Newell and Naomi Sharp on hymn writing as a team

Good things are coming out of north east Bristol! Stephen Newell, URC minister and guitarist, and Naomi Sharp, Methodist lay worker and musician, are collaborating on ‘New Praise Hymns’. … Read More