What is the URC?

Where do we come from? The United Reformed Church is one of the smaller mainstream denominations – but although it is small it plays a dynamic and challenging part in the British Christian community. It was formed in 1972 by English Presbyterians and English and Welsh Congregationalists – that is 40 years ago. In 1981 this […]

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A Faith For Today – Windermere Centre, end of August 2013

A Faith for Today The Christian faith today is under threat intellectually by the aggressive atheism of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, and by secular materialism which seems to have no place for God. As some Christians respond by retrenching into ever more conservative expressions of belief, while others appear to fall off the liberal […]

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Bolton News tribute to Kath Tyldesley

TRIBUTES have been paid to a charity champion who strived for better care for dementia patients. Kath Tyldesley, the chairman of Bolton’s The Dementia Support Group, died aged 84 at Bolton Hospice on Wednesday, June 12 following an illness. Mrs Tyldesley, from Sharples, became involved with the charity 14 years ago as her late husband, Norman, suffered from […]

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