The churches that make us: Messy Church

03/10/2022 | Reform

A series covering the breadth of church life in the United Reformed Church. This month Reform visits Desborough in Northamptonshire

If ever a small church punches above its weight, Desborough United Reformed Church does.

The congregation, originally Congregational, boasts a … Read More

Jubilee for the earth

03/10/2022 | Reform

Lucy Foster looks at how churches have responded to the climate crisis and what more we can do

In the United Reformed Church’s Jubilee year, awareness of the deepening climate and biodiversity crises has been brought into searing focus by … Read More

Proclaim Jubilee!

03/10/2022 | Reform

Meg Warner investigates the Bible’s idea of the 50th year

Happy Birthday United Reformed Church! Fifty years is a grand age, and Jubilee is a superb model to have chosen for the celebrations. I’ve been fortunate enough to have been … Read More

I remember it well: Memories of 1972

03/10/2022 | Reform

Stephen Tomkins interviewed scores of people for his book That They All May Be One: The story of the United Reformed Church. These are some of the memories they shared of the founding of the URC in 1972

It was … 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 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