Racial Justice Blog

Welcome to the Baptists Together Racial Justice Blog, a new space to hear from and reflect on a range of Christian voices on issues of racial justice. The idea for this series of reflections was conceived by our Racial Justice Hub in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the worldwide protests that followed. 

In his introduction our Justice Enabler Wale Hudson-Roberts explains more:  

At the heart of this new series of blogs will be a space to listen. Writers from many different perspectives will present their stories. Some will re-visit their own part in creating and maintaining discrimination. Others will recount their experience of being on the receiving end of the very same discrimination. These are all stories that need to be heard.

These blogs will encourage followers of Christ to grapple with fundamental issues of truth: what it is like living as a person of colour in the UK in 2020, and what is like from a white perspective to begin, under The Rule of Christ, to address the distortions created by unchallenged privilege and power. 

It is unlikely that these blogs will make easy listening, but this is a matter of justice that is deliberately designed to challenge our intuitive preference for ease. Our hope, in the Racial Justice Hub, is that these blogs and the stories they tell will kindle and sustain new and continuing commitments to justice, both in our churches and in society more widely. 

Read Wale's longer introductory piece here. 

New blogs were published throughout Autumn 2020, beginning at the start of Black History Month on 1 October. Each is listed below, and there is an opportunity to comment at the end of each:
  
These blogs have also been published as a booklet which can be downloaded from our Resource Library.

Click here if you have questions or would like to contact our Racial Justice Hub.