Racial Justice Sunday is on 12 February. It is for all churches to reflect on the importance of racial justice, to give thanks for the gifts and beauty of human diversity, and to commit to end racism and acts of discrimination.
Richard Reddie from Churches Together in Britain and Ireland says that this Sunday represents “a call for Christians to engage in the righteous struggle for racial justice because racial justice is everyone’s business”. The gospel calls all Christians continually to confront the idolatry of racism and the evils in our world and to proclaim justice and mercy as we seek to walk with our God (Micah 6:8). Our worship unites us to Christ, transforms us in Word and Sacrament, and sends us out into the world to uphold the dignity of all in Christ.
Racism and racial discrimination are issues of justice because they deny basic human dignity to men and women made in God’s image. Wherever and whenever we treat another “as lesser, or other, our theology fails to celebrate the dramatic nature of our transformation as people who find their primary identity in Christ.
In Christ, our differences are not simply erased but rather embraced, valuing the unique ways we each reflect the image of God”
Merciful God, you are righteous and love justice:
stir the hearts of your people that, rejoicing in our diversity,
we may repent of the wrongs of the past,and, by your grace, seek
the peaceable kingdom of your Son, our Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen.
