The Joint Public Issues Team (JPIT) has launched Faith in Politics, a new podcast series featuring special guests discussing current affairs that link with faith. The podcast was created by Helen Byrne and Rachel Allison who are working for the Church as parliamentary interns. Each monthly episode will be presented by Helen and Rachel – both avid podcast listeners […]
Archbishop of Canterbury’s sermon at Reformation 500th anniversary service Tuesday 31st October 2017 Read Archbishop Justin Welby’s sermon preached at Westminster Abbey today, during a service marking 500 years since the start of the Reformation. Romans 1:16-17; 3:21-28 John 17:20-26 ‘O God, forasmuch as without thee we are not able to please thee; Mercifully grant, that […]
Dear Friends, As the days shorten, and the leaves fall, November leads us into winter with a season of remembering. From All Saints, through Bonfire Night, to Remembrance Day itself, we look back on people and events that have inspired us and shaped us. This year our remembering started at the end of October, with […]
Reformation Sunday 29th Oct 2017 Sermon given at St. Andrew’s URC Ealing by Revd Susan McCoan Bible Reading: Romans 3:19-28 Uncovering truth For our first reflection, I’d like us to think back the Middle Ages, to what life was like in Western Europe. The vast majority of people at the time were Christian, and for […]
St. Andrew’s United Reformed Church, Ealing, has held a special service to mark Reformation Sunday, five hundred years after Martin Luther first nailed his 95 Theses to a church door and set off the Protestant Reformation. The church is remembering with sadness the bloodshed and the divisions that followed, even as it celebrates the origins […]
Sermon 17th Sept – Harvest and Constance Coltman anniversary, Revd. Sue Mccoan Deuteronomy 26:1-11 Matthew 18:21-35 Today is a double celebration: our harvest festival, and also the 100th anniversary of the ordination of Constance Coltman, the first woman to be ordained in a mainstream denomination in Britain. She was ordained into the Congregational Church, which […]
Listen to Sunday Worship which celebrated the centenary of the ordination of Congregationalist Minister, Constance Coltman, the first woman to be ordained to ministry in any mainstream church in Britain. Also to Daily Service, with Dr Janet Wootton on the same theme. Read about a celebration weekend of events. And (quite literally) buy the T-shirt […]
Sermon given at St. Andrew’s URC Ealing by Revd Sue McCoan 3 Sep 2017 Romans 12:9-21 Matthew 16:21-28 It’s over 20 years ago that Jamie and I went to Australia. We spent a week with my brother, in Perth, and then went off to do the tourist things, including two days at Uluru, then mostly […]
Imagine a church where the one and only priority was to equip disciples for their daily lives. Imagine a church where each person had confidence in the gospel; where each had a clear sense that wherever they were, whatever they were doing, they were part of God’s mission. Imagine a church that cared more about […]
One of my abiding memories of my time at Westminster College was an Old Testament lecturer who came into class one day and, instead of talking to us, broke into song. He sang all the verses of ‘Flower of Scotland’. He’s not Scottish, and it wasn’t Burns Night or anything. But when he’d finished, he […]
