CofE to hire ‘deconstructing whiteness’ officer
by Tim Sigsworth, Telegraph:
Church accused of ‘drinking the critical race Kool Aid’ after it advertises for post in its racial justice unit.
The Church of England is hiring a “deconstructing whiteness” officer to combat racial injustice.
The £36,000-a-year role is part of a new 11-person “racial justice unit” being set up by the Diocese of Birmingham to work across the West Midlands.
The job advertisement comes just a week after the General Synod, the Church’s legislative body, approved a motion that told all parishes to draw up “race action plans”.
The Rt Rev Rose Hudson-Wilkin, the Bishop of Dover, told Synod on Feb 25 that Anglicans needed to “further embed racial justice” and should not be afraid of being called “woke”.
But critics of the new racial justice unit – which will work across the dioceses of Birmingham, Coventry, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield and Worcester – accused the Church of “drinking the critical race Kool Aid” and indulging in “student politics”.
“The irony of many of these projects is they are importing American perspectives and overlaying them on a country that is incredibly tolerant,” the Rev Daniel French, vicar of Salcombe, Cornwall, and co-host of the Irreverend podcast, told The Telegraph.
“No less than 80 per cent of the worldwide Anglican Communion is black, and their black theology is very conservative. But you never see the Church paying any attention to that.”
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