Same-Sex Marriage Ten years on

02/09/2026 | Reform

Reformed looks back with John Bradbury, URC General Secretary

It is ten years since the United Reformed Church, at the 2016 General Assembly, became the first mainstream Christian denomination in the UK to allow churches to offer same-sex marriages. The … Read More

Holy Days

12/08/2026 | Reform

Directed by Nat Boltt Certificate 12a 101 minutes Released 14 August

New Zealand, 1974. A young boy, Brian (Elijah Tomati) is sent round to the nuns for ‘blasphemery’. The kindly Sister Agnes (Judy Davis) hands him to the lively Sister … Read More

Help is here!

12/08/2026 | Reform

Introducing the new Shared Resources Hub

Life could be getting easier for churches: the first of the Church Life Fund’s shared services, the URC’s Shared Resources Hub and Helpdesk launched on 30 June. The Hub is an easily accessible website … Read More

A Private Life (Vie Privée)

17/06/2026 | Reform

Directed by Rebecca Zlotowski Certificate 15 107 minutes Released 26 June

This film defies easy categorisation. For a start, it is a French production in the French language with the main character played by a Hollywood star acting on the … Read More

How to respond to Christian nationalism

13/05/2026 | Reform 1

In Britain, 2025 was the year when some prominent figures started identifying themselves as Christian nationalists; and the year the UK Church woke up to the issue. The term is used by different people in different ways – by some … Read More

Forget-me-not café

29/04/2026 | Reform

Visitors feel the love at an award-winning dementia café in Leeds

At Andrew’s United Reformed Church in Roundhay, Leeds, has long had a community café, the Clocktower Café, a place for people to meet once a week. It is popular … Read More