The view from Wales

03/10/2022 | Reform

Leaving the URC to join a Wales-wide body remains a possibility, says Robert Pope

It is sometimes claimed that the United Reformed Church, having 13 synods, has at least 13 ways of doing things. That said, there appears on the … Read More

I remember it well 2

03/10/2022 | Reform

Geoffrey Roper recalls 1972

For years we had been issued pamphlets in blue (Presbyterian colour) or brown (Congregational) setting out principles, proposals, drafts and finally the Scheme of Union and parliamentary bill. These were discussed and debated (sometimes heatedly, sometimes … Read More

I am… still a congregationalist

03/10/2022 | Reform

Margaret Morris explains not joining the URC

Greetings from members of the Congregational Federation to the members of the United Reformed Church on your 50th anniversary! This from a Congregationalist who has been a member of a church affiliated to … Read More

Here & now Victoria Turner

03/10/2022 | Reform

Victoria Turner calls on the URC to make a noise

I decided to scare our Reform editors and write this ‘Here & now’ the day after attending my first Greenbelt Festival – which was also the final content deadline day! … Read More

I remember it well 3

03/10/2022 | Reform

Gwen Hall, a member of the Joint Negotiating Committee, looks back to 1972

My husband Richard was the Minister of Emmanuel Congregational Church, Cambridge, in 1969, and I been doing things with the women and students in the church. There … Read More

We are what we sing

20/09/2022 | Reform

In her new book, Fifty Hymns for Fifty Years, Anne Sardeson explores the story of the URC, one hymn at a time. She talks to Laurence Wareing about her life-long love of singing, writing hymns for the moment, and the … Read More