Posted on 07/12/2021 6:14:28 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Church of England has abandoned a proposal to appoint 42 "racial justice officers" across the country, one of the recommendations from its report on tackling racism in the institution.
The Archbishops' Anti-Racism Taskforce in April made 47 proposals to address institutional racism and improve diversity in an attempt to end a "rut of inaction" spanning several decades, with the Archbishop of Canterbury conceding people of colour had been "bullied, overlooked, undermined and excluded" within the Church.
With the taskforce warning a failure to act against racism would convince people the Church was "not serious about racial sin", one recommendation was for paid, full-time racial justice officers to be employed in every diocese for a five-year term.
However, the idea has been scrapped, reportedly due to financial reasons.
The Daily Telegraph reports that when asked about the idea by a lay church member, the Archbishop of York, the Rt Rev Stephen Cottrell, said: "The Archbishops' Council has concluded that it cannot support this recommendation in this formulation at this time, given the need to reduce costs in diocesan and national administration.
"The council understands the rationale for this recommendation and will do more work on how best to support racial justice across the country through a network of officers who would be suited to different contexts.
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IOW, the woke brigade is becoming as welcome as skunks in the Sanctuary.
Possibly the drop in funds as parishioners end donations is a reason.
Their church has been corrupted by social justice, given that they were setting up religious officials to hunt for heresy not against Christ but social justice.
Ageing Church of England ‘will be dead in 20 years’(2032)
The Church of England will cease to exist in 20 years as the current generation of elderly worshippers dies, Anglican leaders warned.
By Tim Ross
People will naturally gravitate to groups their more comfortable with. They’ll live in their own ‘hoods and go to their own churches.
It was dead when I lived there. I was a member.
There was a BBC show called “Songs of Praise” that featured our parish. They would bring in (probably paid) “parishoners” to fill the pews to film. It was disgraceful.
We had (at most) 40 people there on a Sunday.
The Church of England died at 11:00 AM on the 11th of November, 1918 from disillusionment.
Has common sense prevailed for once?
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