When it goes live near the end of December, the reconstructed national website of the United Church of Christ, ucc.org, will feature more than just a new look, according to staff members who have worked on it.
A series of United Church of Christ YouTube videos and coming seminars focus on generosity as a spiritual practice -- something that can invigorate a local church.
A congregation brightens up its community with a 171-foot lighted tower, a forest of Christmas trees, giant animal puppets roaming the church grounds, live music – and an invitation to support a local agency helping kids in crisis.
I will never forget the night when I sat in the damp and cold dungeon known as Missouri’s death row.
A United Church of Christ congregation in Chicago is making this Christmas a memorable one for more than a dozen social justice organizations by donating 10 percent of the net proceeds from the sale of its historic church.
As part of its 60-year-old mission in pursuit of media justice, OC Inc., the UCC media justice ministry, filed in the Supreme Court on Dec. 16 to block further consolidation of radio and television stations in the United States.
A sports team’s nickname, opposed for decades by Indigenous groups, United Church of Christ bodies and other justice proponents, is another step closer to changing.
Daily activities will be offered for youth and young adults during the United Church of Christ's first-ever online General Synod in July 2021, and a T-shirt design contest is underway.
A spike in the pandemic undoes even the most careful, COVID-safe Christmas Eve plans of a United Church of Christ congregation in Dallas.
Across the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting beloved Advent and Christmas traditions. As congregations adapt, some are discovering that “different” isn’t all bad.
A North Carolina congregation hopes to provoke thought and offer inspiration this Christmas though its somewhat untraditional nativity scene set up along a highway in front of the church.
I’ve only been arrested twice in my life, and both times were for disturbing the peace.
Sometimes ministers need to laugh together. Or cry. They did both during recent online, United Church of Christ-led ecumenical meetings to celebrate, commiserate and plan ahead as the first calendar year of the COVID-19 pandemic neared its close.
A longtime United Church of Christ leader has been honored by the Virginia Council of Churches for her distinguished ecumenical work.
Messages of concern, grief, love and prayers are being shared with the people of Middle Collegiate Church after a massive fire gutted the historic structure in New York City’s East Village early Saturday morning.