Can the C of E’s Ghost Ship change course over its institutional racism?
The Rev Azariah France Williams charts racism in the Church of England during a RMC zoom call. Speakers spoke of continuing campaigns and resistance to change.
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Racism in church commentators
Suggested commentators on church leaders’ statement that racism blights the life of churches in England
Toppling slave traders: we wouldn’t name a school after Jimmy Savile, would we?
By Lianne Kolirin, 16 June 2020 Statues, which have for decades, if not centuries, peered down silently on oblivious passers-by, […]
Down with a splash: who complained when Saddam’s statue was toppled?
Comment by Diarmaid MacCulloch I will lay my cards on the table straight away; I was hugely cheered to watch […]
Cof E ‘Institutionally racist’
The Archbishop of Canterbury has said the Church of England is “still deeply institutionally racist”. In an off-the-cuff address to […]
Bishop Barbara Harris on racism and sexism in C of E
Barbara Harris, the first female Anglican bishop 30 years ago, says sexism and racism remain and more women and people […]
Martin Luther King’s legacy – 50th Anniversary
On 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King Jr was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. A crowd of 300,000 attended his funeral. […]