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Youth Mods take to the road

12 Aug 2026
The United Reformed Church is marking International Youth Day by launching its first ever Youth Moderator’s Blog. The URC’s Youth Moderator, Kacie Hodgson, and Youth Moderator Elect, Alex Clements, have teamed up to write a monthly blog for the URC website. They say, “we want to take you along on our journey – sharing our […]

URC Racial Justice Advocates urge Andy Burnham to honour Windrush pledge

11 Aug 2026
The United Reformed Church’s (URC) Racial Justice Advocates (RJAs) are calling on the new Prime Minister, Andy Burnham, to honour promises made to the Windrush generation. The RJAs are also backing an open letter signed by 70 public figures supporting the Windrush Justice Community Collective (WJCC) campaign for a radical overhaul of the Windrush Compensation […]

German Bible story

11 Aug 2026
A Bible that tells the story of a special Anglo-German relationship has been presented to the URC’s Offices of the General Assembly in London. The striking, illustrated Bible was brought to London by Catriona Wheeler, the immediate past Moderator of the General Assembly, from Trinity URC in Lincoln, which closed in January this year. The […]

Around the URC: Stories from our churches: 10 August 2026

10 Aug 2026
A selection of news and stories from churches and communities across the United Reformed Church Yorkshire Synod Who needs just one scarecrow when you can have a congregation of them instead? In time for Harvest, the famous Bridge Church Scarecrows have planted themselves around Otley Bridge URC church lawn and are set to remain there […]

Rainbow over Leeds

10 Aug 2026
Rainbows across Leeds city centre looked down over a vigil for Berlin victims on 5 August The congregations of Stainbeck and St Andrew’s Roundhay United Reformed churches were among those represented at a vigil held for victims of the attack that took place during a Pride celebration in Berlin’s Tiergarten last month. The vigil was […]

Mourning Dunwich Heath

07 Aug 2026
Neil Thorogood, Moderator of the United Reformed Church’s General Assembly has very personal reasons to mourn the loss of wildlife and habitat in the recent UK wildfires. In the second of his “Moderator’s Blogs”, Neil describes the carnage wrought by wildfires across over 350 acres of Dunwich Heath on the coast of Suffolk. He says […]
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