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Pentecost Sunday, which falls 50 days after Easter, doesn’t get quite the attention that Easter and Christmas do, but traditionally it is just as important. Christians often refer to it as the “birthday” of the church, when frightened and cowering disciples were converted by the power of the Holy Spirit into fearless evangelists. They would be the missionary martyrs who would carry the Christian faith, as the scripture puts it, to the ends of the earth.
Pentecost 2021 is not a happy birthday for the Christian churches in Canada. From the seven months and counting abolition of religious liberty in British Columbia, to severe restrictions on worship elsewhere, Christian disciples may well feel, as their ancestors did at the first Pentecost, huddled together, fearful of the authorities.
February is celebrated as Black History Month and this February, the
Anglican Journal makes note of that tradition by turning its attention to Black and African Christians inside and outside of the Anglican Church of Canada.
Journal spoke with Lutheran and United Church of Canada leaders who have worked to disconnect words like “dark” and “black” from evil and “light” and “white” from goodness. We look again to the United Church as we report on a public conversation between its general secretary, the Rev. Michael Blair, and National Indigenous Anglican Archbishop Mark MacDonald about how the church can decolonize itself around issues affecting Black Canadian Christians, including theology grants and the creation of an African-Canadian theological institution.
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Black faith has held North American church and society to account for worldly injustice, theologians say
The chief influence of Black Christianity on the wider North American church has been to hold it to the idea of freedom in the here and nowâwith gains that arenât going to wilt at resistance from the dominant culture, according to Black church leaders the
Anglican Journal interviewed.
âThe Black faith tradition has always been that prophetic, if you will, witness to the liberating Godâthat tradition that has tried to speak truth to power,â says Canon Kelly Brown Douglas, dean of the Episcopal Divinity School at Union Theological Seminary in New York City and the author of several books.