Dear Friends, Happy Easter to you all! I hope you are enjoying the longer days and the warmth of the Spring sunshine. This week, as part of my online teaching commitment, I was in conversation with some ministerial colleagues. Holy Week is a busy time: one friend had eleven services and a wedding. I haven’t […]
Join us for worship at 1030am Apr. 2 PALM SUNDAY led by Revd. Maggie Hindley Apr. 9 EASTER Communion led by Revd. Sue McCoan
The United Reformed Church (URC) is delighted to announce a new date for its 50th Anniversary Service of Thanksgiving and Celebration. The new date is Saturday 15 April 2023 and the Open Church House event at 86 Tavistock Place, WC1H 9RT, will also take place on the same date from 10am-12pm. A few things to note: Tickets […]
Dear Friends, What’s the first sign that Christmas is really on its way? Not the cards and gift-wrap, which have been on sale since August. Not the weather which, as I write, is still unseasonably mild. No; one of the sure signs has to be the launching of the big stores’ Christmas Adverts. These lavish […]
Dear Friends, Less than a month ago, as I’m writing, we marked the funeral of our late Queen Elizabeth II. Whatever your views on the monarchy, it was an impressive occasion: ten days of pomp and pageantry, liturgy and logistics, all meticulously planned and impeccably executed. Alongside all the formal proceedings, and equally impressive, was […]
So here we are, the United Reformed Church! Only we were never meant to reach this milestone. The great hope in creating the URC was that churches would learn how to do the process, how to have the conversations, so the other churches could join in in a great snowball effect. What we actually learnt […]
In May, Jamie and I joined a party of URC people, led by Michael Hopkins, to see the Oberammergau Passion Play. The play was devised as an act of thanksgiving by the village of Oberammergau after they were spared from the Plague in 1633, and has been performed every 10 years since 1680. It was […]
In April, Revd Maggie Hindley spent a month with CPT in Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. Maggie’s reports on their work, witnessing to the daily deprivations of the Palestinian people, were circulated by email and on the church notice boards. Maggie also sent us this prayer for Hebron, written by the first foreigner to […]
