Community project awards: Food with friends

23/07/2025 | Reform

An ecumenical project in Flintshire shows the benefit of keeping things simple

Food with Friends has kept going for nearly ten years, thanks not least to its simple premise: a meal every Tuesday for whoever wants it. The simplicity does … Read More

Age to age

23/07/2025 | Reform

Sam Richards reports from a meeting of minds on intergenerational church

I had the privilege of travelling to Asbury, Kentucky for the fifth biennial Intergenerate USA Conference in June 2025. It is an event about bringing the generations together in … Read More

Scottish Connections: Twenty-five years of the National Synod of Scotland

09/06/2025 | Reform

On 14 June, the URC’s National Synod of Scotland celebrates 25 years since the formation of the United Reformed Church as we now experience it – when the URC in the UK and the Congregational Union of Scotland united. Lindsey … Read More

Rejoice and Sing, Past and Present

09/06/2025 | Reform

Andrew Satchell, David Jenkins, David Thompson and Stephen Orchard, members of the committee which created Rejoice and Sing in 1991, join with Anne Sardeson and Dominic Grant to discuss the story of the hymnbook

Stephen Tomkins: What memories come to … Read More

The season of creation

09/06/2025 | Reform

How will you mark the season? Roo Stewart gathers great green ideas

Each year, a growing number of URC congregations plan services and activities focused on caring for the environment in the time from 1 September to 4 October, the … Read More

Travelling together

09/06/2025 | Reform

Lindsey Brown reports on an ecumenical dialogue group pilgrimage to Rome

Hurtling at 300km an hour through the Italian countryside, my head was full of the previous 72 hours. We had just begun a 14-hour train journey from Rome to … Read More