A good question: How long should a sermon be?

26/06/2023 | Reform

One question, four answers

BARNABAS SHIN‘Our body clock will get used to what we think is normal’

This question reminded me of my young adulthood when I used to sit in front of the pew on Sunday morning services in … Read More

Hear different voices

26/06/2023 | Reform

The Revd Dr Tessa Henry-Robinson is Moderator of the United Reformed Church General Assembly from 2023 to 2024. She is the first woman from an ethnic minority background to be appointed to the post. Shortly before Assembly, she talked to … Read More

Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I found a YouTube channel with roller coasters and my kids took turns sitting in a laundry basket’

26/06/2023 | Reform 1

Paul Kerensa takes a Youtube roller coaster

Going anywhere nice on your holidays? Some years we take more trips than others, so this is what our summer hols looked like a couple of years back, during that oh-so-brief umpteen-week period … Read More

On the pilgrim way: ‘We stood quietly, craning our necks’

26/06/2023 | Reform

Sheila Maxey learns lessons from the birds

As 8 July – the date of the closing service for Brentwood United Reformed Church – approaches I seem to become more and more detached, at least on the surface. Last Sunday, my … Read More

Here and now: Reuben Watt

26/06/2023 | Reform

Reuben Watt is touched by Palestinian generosity

In May, Jo Harris and I, two former URC Youth Assembly Moderators, were given the incredible opportunity to head out to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory with Christian Aid. This was part … Read More

Chapter & verse: Exodus 1:17

26/06/2023 | Reform

Phil Wall on the defiance of the Hebrew midwives

I was just six years old when my part in our church’s production of Moses and the Burning Bush gave me a lifelong love for the theatre. I played the role … Read More