Isaac Watts at 350

29/01/2025 | Reform

Joan McGavin looks at how the hymnwriter’s place of birth marked his 350th throughout last year

Last year was the 350th anniversary of the birth of Isaac Watts in Southampton, and a number of events, long in the planning, took … Read More

Sharing services

29/01/2025 | Reform

How can the work of local churches be made more manageable? Myles Dunnett gives an update on the Church Life Review

How could a URC-wide shared services portal work? That was the question addressed by the latest event in the … Read More

Songs of Faith: Susan McCoan

29/01/2025 | Reform

Susan McCoan shares a hymn of discipleship

You may recognise Susan McCoan’s name as the co-editor of the current URC Prayer Handbook, or from her contributions to the URC’s Daily Devotions Sunday Worship. Did you know she also writes hymns?

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Chapter & Verse: Matthew 16: 2-23

29/01/2025 | Reform

Graham McGeoch sees the signs of the times. Plus Bible study questions

As you read this, I will be in Harare, Zimbabwe, for the Council for World Mission’s DARE Global Forum. ‘DARE’ is short for ‘Discernment and Radical Engagement’: a … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘Like a kindly earworm, I heard, “The light shines in the darkness”’

29/01/2025 | Reform

I made a resolution at Christmas time – not waiting for the new year. I decided that I would try with renewed effort to find the signs of light and life, and hope lying around me and in the wider … Read More

Me and Jesus and Trump

29/01/2025 | Reform

A faith that can respond to the news needs to be more than individual,argues Donald W Norwood

President Donald Trump is a Christian! Some readers might challenge the statement; his supporters in America take it for granted. No one ever … Read More