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The United Reformed Church, through Commitment for Life, has launched an appeal to support both the immediate and long-term needs of affected church communities across Jamaica following Hurricane Melissa. “The needs are monumental,” said the Revd Dr Gordon Cowans, former Moderator of the United Church in Jamaica and the Cayman Islands. “A special church team […]

Catriona Wheeler, Moderator of the United Reformed Church General Assembly, has added her voice to a statement in defence of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR). In total, 292 charities and organisations – including Amnesty, Shelter, Mind, the End Violence Against Women Coalition, and Parkinsons UK – have stated their support for the ECHR […]

URC Children’s and Youth staff and volunteers have received a special word of thanks for their work at the Greenbelt Festival over the past four years. From 2021 until this past summer, the URC Youth CYDO+ Team has been central to the youth provision and programming at the arts, politics and spirituality festival. Greenbelt’s Creative […]

The Revd Stuart P Turner, a United Reformed Church minister who has served as a British Army Chaplain since 2009, will be deployed overseas for Remembrance. In this reflection, Stuart gives thanks for those who have served with courage and selflessness — from Britain and the Commonwealth, past and present — while also lamenting the […]

The Green Party’s Carla Denyer MP is all fired up in her interview for the latest issue of Reform magazine. She tells editor Steve Tomkins she is “perpetually angry at the state of things in this country” but believes politicians can make a difference if they have a passion they want to follow. Elsewhere, Lindsey […]

In the wake of Hurricane Melissa, the United Reformed Church offers this prayer: God of Compassion, Sometimes there are no words which can truly reflect what we feel in our hearts. This is one of those moments. Yet we cry to you for Jamaica and her people during this time of devastation. We cry for […]