Here & now: Lydia Raddings

11/03/2025 | Reform

Lydia Raddings reports on a monumental ecumenical gathering for young people

At the end of January, I and a couple of others from the URC attended an ecumenical gathering of young adults at Dearen Valley Activity Centre near Doncaster. ‘Junction … Read More

Safer spaces

11/03/2025 | Reform

In the second of two articles following the Makin Report into abuse in the Church of England, Sharon Barr, the URC’s Safeguarding Lead outlines the biblical values seen in good safeguarding practice

The Makin Report, which was an independent review … Read More

Songs of Faith: Ray Stanyon

11/03/2025 | Reform

Ray Stanyon’s sung response to sermons

It would be difficult to be more URC than Ray Stanyon. Son of a URC minister and a URC minister himself, Ray describes himself as ‘born into, baptised in, and brought up by the … Read More

Chapter & Verse: Psalm 91

11/03/2025 | Reform

Hannah Fytche hovers between art and Psalm 91

In the San Diego Museum of Art, there is a room of paintings which depict artists’ impressions of the Holy Spirit. A collage of shattered glass shines from one wall, collected from … Read More

Andrew Irvine on Everest

11/03/2025 | Reform

Will we finally find out if this worshipper at Trinity, Birkenhead, reached the peak of Everest in 1924? John Blease tells the story

The recent finding on Mount Everest of a boot and a sock belonging to the mountaineer Andrew … Read More

Where the green shoots are coming from

11/03/2025 | Reform

It is time to grow new communities. Lindsey Brown and Myles Dunnett report on the start of a conversation about new beginnings

In January, a group of 100 of the animators of the United Reformed Church met in High Leigh … Read More