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Unitarians urge support for British Red Cross Appeal for Nepal

28/04/2015

Nepal Appeal photoThe Executive Committee of the General Assembly is issuing the following appeal to all congregations, districts, affiliated societies and individual Unitarians:

We have been deeply moved by the recent... Read More

New Resource: Intergen Resource Pack

14/04/2015

Full of loads of fun and inspiring activities for all ages from 7 to 70.

We hope you will find the suggestions and activities in this resource helpful. We have tried to include as much information as possible, based on our own experiences, so that you have the tools that you need in order to experiment with child-friendly worship or to set up an intergenerational group from scratch.

This is a living resource, which will be enlarged and modified according to your feedback. If... Read More

A Vision for Our Future

26/03/2015

Vision cover“A Vision for the Future” sets out some ideas for the future of the Unitarian and Free Christian Movement following the successful District consultation Day in... Read More

Annual Meetings online booking system goes live!

06/02/2015

Annual Meetings Online bookings

We are pleased to be able to announce that the new Annual Meetings online booking system has now gone live.

To use it, you will need to create a user account and log in. Some people will already have one, and will have received an email from us with details of how to change the password. If you have not, please email Andrew Mason with your name, email... Read More

2015-16 Annual Meetings details released

04/12/2014

2015 & 2016 Annual Meetings details released

Birmingham Hilton Metropole Reception

Dates

The 2015 and 2016 meetings will be held on the following dates:

2015 – Sunday 29 March to Wednesday  01 April.

2016 – Wednesday 30 March to Saturday 02 April

Venue

The venue... Read More

Website Rollback 26/11/14

26/11/2014

Unfortunately, due to an external security concern with the program we're using to produce our website, we've taken a decision to rollback our website to the backup taken on 13 October.

This sadly means that we've lost content and changes made to our webpages since then. We're going through at the moment attempting to reconstitute pages but if you spot a change that needs making, please email Andrew Mason on... Read More

Marriage for same-sex couples - all welcome

08/07/2014

Marriage for same-sex couples is now legal in England and Wales. The General Assembly was supportive of the introduction of equal marriage as the legislation went through Parliament and we worked with the Quakers and Liberal and Reform Judaism as well as other faith groups to provide a progressive religious response.

The Act provides for Churches and Chapels to "opt-in" to same-sex marriage and to appoint "authorised persons" to act as registrar and Unitarian places of worship have to... Read More

Creationism - understanding the attractions and fallacies

19/12/2013

The Lindsey Press, the publishing arm of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches, has published a book on Creationism which shows understanding of the attractions of the concept while demonstrating its fallacies.

"Creationism: Design Errors and Cross-Purposes" is by Graham Richards, formerly Professor of the History of Psychology at the University of Staffordshire and Director of the British Psychological Society's History of Psychology Centre.

The book... Read More

The Annual Meeting - April 2014

16/12/2013

The Annual Meetings of the General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches will take place from Sunday 13 April to Wednesday 16 April at Whittlebury Hall, Northampton.

The meetings will consider an emergency motion welcoming the latest United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report, Climate Change 2014 Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. The motion will be proposed by Rev Feargus O'Connor of Golders Green and St Albans Unitarians and seconded by... Read More