Introduction

Racism has been an integral part of the Church for the longest time. It still is! This is in spite of the fact that our general reaction, particularly the victim's, to racism is one of revulsion and intolerance. The following statement is typical,

Introduction

Background
John Mbiti, in the opening line of his book, 'African Religions and Philosophy' says simply, 'Africans are notoriously religious'. Little surprise therefore, that reading the ninth edition of his 'The Interesting Narrative of the life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African', one sees that this is a deeply religious man.

A senior church leader has spoken out against the lack of unity among black-led churches and calls for an end to the policy of separate development. Mike Best reports. There is growing concern that the proliferation of black-led churches could lead to too many buildings, too few followers in each congregation, and disunity between denominations. The warning comes as new and existing denominations exploit the new phenomena as hundreds of black men and women return to church within our inner cities.

From the earliest times, thousands of Africans have lived in Europe, and not just as slaves, though increasingly many were. Africans came here as soldiers, merchants, performers, some were brought here by Arab traders, and of course many by European enslavers. But, the African did not have to come to Europe to meet the European, because the European spirit of discovery led them inexorably to the land of the blacks.

The Minority Ethnic Christian Affairs (MECA) secretariat exists to encourage the engagement of BME Christians and churches with and within the Churches Together ecumenical instruments of Britain and Ireland

Fourth talk in the Radio 4 Lent Series, 2003
Every Christian needs to embrace a mental image of Jesus, the Incarnate Son of God, as someone who looks like them. I am convinced that this is particularly true for Black people like myself, who have undergone centuries of mental conditioning of seeing Jesus portrayed as a White European, with only the devil and his imps as Black.