This blog for the William Temple Foundation by Dr Sanjee Perera reflects on her research with the Minority Anglican Project and what the BAME death toll in the current COVID-19 pandemic reveals about how far both church and society still have to go. Dr Perera speaks of the Church of England’s “dark legacy of belittlement and disregard for Black lives” and how it had “long been steeped in a racialised agenda. Its theology, and its framing of biblical hermeneutics, have justified slavery and Empire within the folds of its missiology.”
Read the full post here. Read more about Dr Perera’s research into racialised micro-aggressions and their consequences in the Anglican Church here.
