Do stay for tea and coffee: ‘I’d forgotten that there on my bookshelf are countless words of inspiration’

06/09/2024 | Reform

Lately I’ve spent more money on hospital car parks than I’d like. Yes, we’re in one of those seasons. First came my own kidney issues, then came an ailing parent – entirely unrelated, but such is life. On some days … Read More

Here and now: Charlotte Samson

06/09/2024 | Reform

‘The best part about the URC is that it is made up of great people who make you feel welcome and accepted’

I moved to England from South Africa in 2022 at the age of 14. Moving is very hard, … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Genesis 12:1-9

06/09/2024 | Reform

Meg Warner on a journey with Abram

Many of us know this passage pretty well. The LORD calls Abram to embark on an extraordinary journey – away from his homeland and everything he knows – and to travel to a … Read More

Songs of faith: Stephen Best

06/09/2024 | Reform

Hymn writer Stephen Best talks to Ana Gobledale

Maybe, as he says, it’s a Welsh thing or maybe it’s his poetic gift, but ready-to-sing hymns are arising from the pen of the Revd Stephen Best, part of our United Reformed … Read More

Chapter & verse: Mark 6:39

03/07/2024 | Reform

Lance Stone walks in green pastures

It is a notable feature of the story of the feeding of the 5,000 that, apart from the resurrection, it is the only miracle that features in all four Gospels. As is usual in … Read More

Here & now: Zeerak Shahbaz

03/07/2024 | Reform

My call was nurtured in the URC, says Zeerak Shahbaz

Moving to England from Pakistan in 2006, at the age of three, I continued my faith journey in a United Reformed Church in east London. I recall attending events with … Read More