All tagged race
Earlier today, the Archbishops’ Anti-Racism Taskforce, set up in 2020, released their long-awaited report, providing recommendations to the Church of England for combating racism and promoting racial justice. Fr Jonathan Jong provides commentary on this report.
Images of God in Christian art, have regularly reflected a lack of imagination when it comes to the diversity of God’s people. Art, it could be said has a crucial role to play in challenging racial prejudice in the world and in the Church today.
The Church is one of the world’s fiercest, most unrepentant and historically ignorant bastions of white supremacy. British Christianity in particular has played a central part in the violence against black bodies over the centuries by colluding with the powers of evil primarily in the form of the British Empire: in the words of historian James Walvin, the history of the Church has been a history of “God fearing men going about their godless business”
