A good question: Did Jesus and Paul preach the same Gospel?

28/11/2022 | Reform

One question, four answers

ROSALIND SELBY‘They speak to different contexts’

Yes. No. Maybe. It depends on the context.

This isn’t very helpful, so let me try and unpack it.

Gospel (literally ‘good news’) is first used to proclaim God’s saving … Read More

Transforming our communitites: Fixers or empowerers?

28/11/2022 | Reform

Concluding a two-part series, Simon Hawking asks what makes our communities change

It feels like each day brings another daunting headline in the news. Wars and rumours of wars, the plight of refugees, rising costs, ecological disasters and disease. There … Read More

Swapping clothes, changing the world

28/11/2022 | Reform

Pre-loved school uniforms show love for the planet in an award-winning exchange project. Laurence Wareing reports

It began with a couple of old choir robe rails in the vestibule. Three years on and St Columba’s URC in Wolverhampton has given … Read More

Supervision is a freedom

28/11/2022 | Reform

Lucy Berry celebrates the United Reformed Church’s new supervision for every minister

In July 2020 the United Reformed Church made a decision that would send ripples through the whole denomination. It stated that all active URC ministers would be expected … Read More

Chapter & verse: Luke 2:8-20

28/11/2022 | Reform

Matt Stone unwraps the joy of Christmas

I want to focus on one word: the word ‘joy’, for joy is a theme that runs through the Christmas story. Zechariah is told that he and his wife Elizabeth will have a … Read More

All are welcome? Poverty

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I can’t afford the church collection

I wonder what feeling genuinely welcome means to you. In this column I am speaking to a range of people from around the United Reformed Church about their experiences of church and what welcome … Read More