Dates for your diary – July Thursday 2nd
Visitation of the Virgin Mary
Friday 3rd
Saint Thomas the Apostle
Sunday 5th
7.30 pm Greenbelt Group virtual meeting:
‘No Justice, No Peace: Religion and Protest’.
Sunday 12th
Sea Sunday
Wednesday 22nd
Mary Magdalene
Thursday 25th
Saint James the Apostle
Remembering anti-slavery campaigners
On 30th July, the Church of England remembers William Wilberforce (d.1833), Olaudah Equiano (d.1797) and Thomas Clarkson (d.1846), antislavery campaigners.
Wilberforce’s life is wellknown. Equiano puchased his freedom from slavery, lived in London and was part of an abolitionist group composed of Africans living in
Britain. His powerful autobiography depicted the horrors of slavery. Clarkson continued to campaign for the abolition of slavery worldwide to the end of his life.
Greenbelt Group on-line meeting, Sunday 5 July 7.30 – 9.00pm. Christianity has had a complicated relationship with both black oppression and black liberation. The Bible has been used to justify slavery but has also been the script of the civil rights movement. ,Which side do US and UK churches sit? What role do they have now in the fight for racial justice? Join us to listen to and discuss a BBC recording, ‘No Justice,
No Peace: Religion and Protest’, a thoughtprovoking conversation chaired by Chine McDonald, Greenbelt trustee, with the Rev. Canon Broderick Greer, Canon Precentor at Saint John's Cathedral in Denver, Robert Beckford, Professor of Black Theology at The Queen's Foundation, and other guests. All welcome. Zoom meeting ID 842 0804 3698. Password 384539
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