Information White Crucifixion is the first in Marc Chagall’s series of compositions that feature Jesus as a Jewish martyr and dramatically call attention to the persecution and suffering of Jews in 1930s Germany at the hands of the Nazis. The work is startling as the crucifixion, often seen by the Jewish people as a symbol […]
Sunday Worship 7 April 2024
Sunday Worship from the United Reformed Churchfor Sunday 7 April 2024 Today’s service is led by the Revd Andy Braunston Welcome Hello and welcome to worship. In these joyful days of Eastertide we think of those early stories of disciples learning to form new communities; a scared community transformed by Jesus’ presence, a united community […]
Daily Devotion for Saturday 6th April 2024
Information Dali was inspired to paint The Ascension of Christ by a “cosmic dream’ that he had in 1950, some eight years before the painting was completed. The vivid colours of his dream led to the painting of the nucleus of an atom as both the background to the painting and as a symbol of […]
Daily Devotion for Friday 5th April 2024
Information Currently a California resident, Dr He Qi Studied at Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing Art Institute in China and Hamburg Art Institute in Germany. He has been an Artist-in-Residence at Fuller Theological Seminary (CA) and is Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Art Institute of RUC (Renmin University of China,Beijing) He was the first among Mainland Chinese […]
Daily Devotion for Thursday 4th April 2024
Information Harmonia Rosales’ does not wish to upset viewers but to balance Christian art with images of black people. She was born in 1984 of Afro-Cuban American heritage, in Chicago. As a child she was interested in classic art by the Old Masters. Rosales defines herself as a womanist – a movement of black people […]
Daily Devotion for Wednesday 3rd April 2024
Reading St Luke 23: 50 – 56 Now there was a good and righteous man named Joseph, who, though a member of the council, had not agreed to their plan and action. He came from the Jewish town of Arimathea, and he was waiting expectantly for the kingdom of God. This man went to Pilate […]
Daily Devotion for Tuesday 2nd April 2024
St Mark 16: 14 – 20 Later Jesus appeared to the eleven themselves as they were sitting at the table; and he upbraided them for their lack of faith and stubbornness, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. And he said to them, ‘Go into all the world and […]
Daily Devotion for Monday 1st April 2024
St Mark 16: 9 – 12 Now after he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. She went out and told those who had been with him, while they were mourning and weeping. But when they heard that he […]
Easter Sunday Worship 31 March
Today’s service is led by the Revd Matt Stone Call to Worship Christ is risen! He is risen indeed! Alleluia! On this glorious Easter Sunday morning, united with God’s people everywhere, we join together in our first hymn to declare and celebrate the world-changing resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. Hymn Christ the […]
URC Daily Devotion 30 March 2024
St Mark 15: 42 – 47 When evening had come, and since it was the day of Preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath, Joseph of Arimathea, a respected member of the council, who was also himself waiting expectantly for the kingdom of God, went boldly to Pilate and asked for the body of […]