ABSTRACT
During the 1960s Kenneth Slack made ‘a unique contribution’ to the negotiations between the Presbyterian Church of England and the Congregational Church in England and Wales which led to the formation of the United Reformed Church in 1972. Recognition of WKLVFDPHLQKLVQRPLQDWLRQE\WKHMRLQWFRPPLWWHHWREHWKHÀUVWIXOO term Moderator of the United Reformed Church, for 1973-1974. In those years he was among those who encouraged the infant United Reformed Church to engage in consultations about further ecclesiastical unions.1
