Christians should avoid “Eurocentric” prayers in order to be more inclusive, according to guidance from a Church of England diocese. The Mail has more.
In what is believed to be the first example of Church of England prayer being subject to diversity plans, the Diocese of Norwich has issued parishes with an “anti-racist toolkit”.
The toolkit tells priests to ensure prayers are not “entirely Eurocentric”.
It says: “Invite people to say the Lord’s Prayer in their own language and ensure that intercessions are aligned with the concerns of the congregation and are not entirely Eurocentric.”
The guidance for around 650 churches, mostly in rural East Anglia, also says churches should seek to “include different languages and topics in the prayers” and “display images that reflect diversity in the Body of Christ”.
It also tells churches to recognise special days which people from ethnic minorities may celebrate, such as Racial Justice Sunday.
Using different languages in songs and hymns to improve “linguistic diversity and intercultural worship” in music is encouraged. …
The advice, written by the Norwich Diocese’s Racial Justice Action Group, says that the diocese is “very white in terms of population, but the schools are becoming more and more diverse.
“It’s quite likely that in a few years, the ethnic makeup of some of our churches will start to reflect this.” …
It tells “mono-cultural” parishes to be particularly receptive to diversity, even if there is none in the parish.
“We should find ways to reflect that in our churches, even if someone from a different culture is not physically present,” it adds.
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As a committed evangelical of over 50 years following Jesus, it looks to me like the only people not included here are Christians.
Sheep and goats, evidenced by their deeds and the fruit that follows.
Looking at the CofE leadership from a distance (having never been a member) I must admit that it seems to me that they are a bit ashamed of being associated with Jesus.
“Such old fashioned ideas… Sin, that’s so judgemental… Jesus being the only way, that’s so un-inclusive… Homosexuality being wrong, how absurdly heteronormative… Marriage for life, how bizarre…”
I think that they would probably be much happier being in charge of some “progressive” NGO, where the ideas are more fashionable: climate change, anti-racism, reparations, pro-Palestine movement, whatever.
Saducees, Pharisees and Hypocrites.
Christians being slaughtered, raped, sex enslaved in Africa and Asia – crickets. Christians in the UK going to jail, losing their jobs, being censored just for their faith or being pro-life – crickets.
1000 murdered on Thurday (Lenten season) in Aleppo called ‘Alawites’ by the fake news. Yes they are, but most importantly they were Christians slaughtered by Muslims as many of us predicted would happen, after the Assad clan was deposed.
These hypocrites constantly feel the need to ‘liberalise’ our theology while ignoring what is happening to Christians. Pathetic weasels.
Well done for reminding people that President Assad and his father drove The Muslim Brotherhood out of Syria, and did their best to protect Syrian Christians from Muslim and Kurdish attacks. All that protection is gone now.
Yesterday in the Premier League, marches were stopped mid-game for players to “break fasting”. In other words, for Muslim players observing Ramadan to have a quick drink of water.
I don’t know how many Muslim players observing Ramadan were on the pitch at that moment, but during a football match a player has multiple opportunities to slip away for a second to get a drink of water. There was no need to stop the game and announce on the big video screens that it was time time breat the fast.
The whole thing was a completely gratuitous, virtue signalling display of “inclusivity”.
The British establishment hates British people and wants to bludgeon them into submission. Submission into what? It actually doesn’t matter. It will actually change over time, the goalposts will keep moving, today it’s Islam and gay and trans culture, tomorrow it will be some variation or evolution of the theme. The essence isn’t the set of beliefs, the essence is the hatred of the people and the desire to extract submission from them.
What would you expect from the Premier League and other bodies like UEFA who seem to find a whole host of stupid things to have a minute’s silence for at the start of games most of which have no relevance to anybody on the pitch or in the ground. It will be because somebody’s dog has died soon although I would not be surprised if a person commented that they had already done that.
I’m not an expert but aren’t Muslims supposed to abstain from food and drink during Ramadan?
I had an observant Muslim colleague some years ago and during Ramadan by about 4 pm he used to look like death warmed up.
Hours of daylight only , I think.
Did all the infidels have to kneel while the Muslims were “breaking their fast”?
Islam means submission. Charlie-Boy has already submitted.
The advice, written by the Norwich Diocese’s Racial Justice Action Group, says that the diocese is “very white in terms of population, but the schools are becoming more and more diverse.
Why does the Norwich Diocese employ teams of people occupied with abusing the existing congregation because of the skin colour of most its members?
Isn’t the Bishop of Norwich in the running for the vacant seat of AoC, vacant being a very appropriate adjective?
“It’s quite likely that in a few years, the ethnic makeup of some of our churches will start to reflect this.” …
And we will all be supporting Alan’s Snackbar.
Utter idiots who have no understanding of Christianity or what it stands for.
Recommended route to an inclusive congregation made up of nobody.
Seems to me that the C of E is not far from handing over all its churches to the child raping muslim murderers so they can practice their evil.
Not just the churches, but even English castles are allowing the Muslim Caterwauling Call to Prayer inside their walls, not realising that Muslims are taught that anywhere they are allowed to read from the Koran or perform the Caterwauling Call, has thereby submitted to Islam and becomes part of the Global Caliphate territory forever. That means they’ve just claimed Windsor Castle.
King Charles’s role called into question over ‘Islamic call to prayer’ at Windsor Castle
Imagine having to listen to this five times a day. No wonder Muslims go crazy:
Muslims break their fast at King Charles’ Royal Windsor Castle – YouTube
A few weeks ago the prayers of intercession in the church I was visiting, asked us to repent of the devastation caused by climate change. I slammed down my prayer book (not The Book of Common Prayer, of course which manages to be pretty timeless in its prayers) in frustration. Please could we be allowed to exercise our own discretion and conscience on all things climatic, ecological etc while the churches help us to keep our minds on things spiritual as appropriate, because if they don’t, who will?
Righteous wrath is a wonderful thing.
Many Handwringing Christians forget about Jesus getting angry, violently overturning the tables of the moneychangers in the Temple, and using a whip to kick them all out!
Climate change “repentance” prayers are a blasphemous insult to Almighty God, telling Him that He made a mistake in designing the planet, and needs paltry humans to sort it out for Him.
I agree absolutely
Any comments on political matters in sermons irritate are offensive
I attended a service a couple of Sundays ago to celebrate the achievements and work of Essex County Council. The sermon started with a quick quiz: “Who can identify the speaker from this quote?” The first two were easy: Martin Luther King and Sir Winston Churchill. The next two were Greta Thunberg and some female US cleric bewailing the election of Donald Trump. I was gratified to see that only one or two people knew those ones. The preacher went on to say how pleased she was to live in a good democracy like the UK, unlike the US. Had I not been there as part of a choir, I’d have walked out in protest. Not only was it an unwanted and ill-informed excursion in to US politics, it was also gratuitously disrespectful to the organisation that had given her that platform.
And here she is in charge of it all:
“I am pleased to be sharing an exciting update. Danielle Chavrimootoo [from Mauritius], the Church of England’s newly appointed Racial Justice Learning and Development Specialist in the Racial Justice Unit, has been working with colleagues to develop a foundational anti-racist e-learning module housed on Moodle with Marshalls Learning, a specialist in equality and diversity learning and development https://marshallelearning.com.”
An update from our Racial Justice officer for the Diocese of Norwich – Diocese of Norwich
Right now I’m hoping for a ban on all religion.
Will you be banning Atheism?
I wonder how ‘diverse’ the Norwich Diocese’s Racial Justice Action Group is?
The only mission the C of E seems to be on these days is a mission to destroy the Church of England ….. rather like the rest of the Establishment is on a mission to destroy the nation which created it.
… and let me take this opportunity of warmly welcoming our bretheren who have come all the way from Haiti to join us in prayer. Afterwards, I am certain you will be enthralled to learn, they will give us a wonderful demonstration of sacrificing a live chicken, a first in the Church of England…
Yes, remember this?
Justin Welby: African dancers, bongo drums and Punjabi hymn for Britain’s new Archbishop of Canterbury | Daily Mail Online
Cultural Marxism is taking over the C of E can’t you see you’ve been infiltrated? The only way out is to shove these obscene people out from the top down. Sorry but it looks like you’ll need to be brutal about it too as there’s only one language these people understand!
Leaving aside the whole issue of celebrating wokery in our prayers… The CofE, like many other churches, has a set liturgy. Of course it has evolved over the centuries, and there are a limited number of recognised variants to forms of worship, but the key thing is that worshippers can go to any church in the country and have a pretty good idea what will happen in a service, in what order, and be able to join in. As soon as you ask a multiracial congregation to say the Lord’s Prayer in whatever language they like, the corporate aspect of worship is broken. The congregation fragments along linguistic lines, and the sense of unity is lost. It provides a dramatic illustration of multiculturalism in action.