URC head aims to reconcile 'Reformed' with 'spirituality' in new book

The General Secretary of the United Reformed Church (URC), the Rev Dr David Cornick, said he is attempting to redress the imbalance in the URC between 'Reformed' and 'spirituality' in a new book published last week.

The two words have not sat easily together within the URC, he said at the recent launch of his book 'Letting God be God', conceding that most Reformed people thought spirituality was something that others did

Dr Cornick said he wanted to show through his book "how the Reformed way of being Christian has received its own gifts from God, and to offer those gifts to fellow pilgrims of other traditions".

He added that although the book had been shaped by his experiences within the URC, it was not specifically about the URC.

Rather, it was about the Reformed tradition and "the way of being Christian that began in blitzkrieg reformations of the Swiss city states in the 1520s and eventually spread across the world".

Dr Cornick moves on from the URC in March to become the General Secretary of Churches Together in England, cementing the United Reformed Church commitment to ecumenism.

For more on "Letting God be God. The Reformed tradition" go to http://books.urc2.org.uk/