{"id":10263,"date":"2023-01-14T12:04:38","date_gmt":"2023-01-14T12:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10263"},"modified":"2023-01-14T12:20:25","modified_gmt":"2023-01-14T12:20:25","slug":"racial-justice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/2023\/01\/racial-justice\/","title":{"rendered":"Racial Justice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 fusion-flex-container hundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--link_hover_color: #245e29;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row fusion-flex-align-items-flex-start fusion-flex-content-wrap\" style=\"width:104% !important;max-width:104% !important;margin-left: calc(-4% \/ 2 );margin-right: calc(-4% \/ 2 );\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-flex-column\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-width-large:100%;--awb-margin-top-large:0px;--awb-spacing-right-large:1.92%;--awb-margin-bottom-large:20px;--awb-spacing-left-large:1.92%;--awb-width-medium:100%;--awb-order-medium:0;--awb-spacing-right-medium:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-medium:1.92%;--awb-width-small:100%;--awb-order-small:0;--awb-spacing-right-small:1.92%;--awb-spacing-left-small:1.92%;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-column-has-shadow fusion-flex-justify-content-flex-start fusion-content-layout-column\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload size-medium wp-image-3681 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cathy-O-BLM-Portrait-225x300.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cathy-O-BLM-Portrait-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27150%27%20height%3D%27200%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20150%20200%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27150%27%20height%3D%27200%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cathy-O-BLM-Portrait-157x210.jpg 157w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cathy-O-BLM-Portrait-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cathy-O-BLM-Portrait-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cathy-O-BLM-Portrait-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/Cathy-O-BLM-Portrait.jpg 899w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>With increasing numbers of people from other countries joining our congregation we have invited The Revd Cathy Okoronkwo, Racial Justice Adviser in our Bristol Diocese, to lead two Unconscious Bias training sessions on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monday 13th February 11-12.30pm on <b>Unconscious Bias<\/b> &#8211; in the Community Centre.<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday 14th February 2pm -3.30pm on <b>Welcome and Hospitality<\/b> &#8211; in the Large Meeting Room or in Christ Church if numbers are large.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I very much hope that you will be able to attend both sessions. This will be very helpful in enabling us to develop and grow our ministry this year on solid foundations.<br \/>The sessions will be open to our whole congregation and to friends from across the Old Town Partnership. Please pass the word around.<br \/>An RSVP would be appreciated. Simon (<a href=\"mailto:simon@christchurchswindon.co.uk\">simon@christchurchswindon.co.uk<\/a>) 529166<\/p>\n<h5>Church Commissioners Report<\/h5>\n<p>The Church Commissioners of the Church of England have published their full report into historic links to Transatlantic Slavery. They have also announced a new \u00a3100m funding commitment in response to the findings, saying &#8220;The Church Commissioners\u2019 Board has committed itself to trying to address some of the past wrongs by investing in a better future. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofengland.org\/media-and-news\/press-releases\/church-commissioners-publishes-full-report-historic-links\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read it here.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,10,9,13,5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cc-home-page","category-church-family","category-community-networks","category-mission-evangelism","category-events","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10263"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10267,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10263\/revisions\/10267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.christchurchswindon.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}