The shortage of minority ethnic senior leaders in the Church of England which has been identified for over 30 years – is symptomatic of a wider problem,which will not be solved by continuing our focus on senior leadership development as our major challenge (Church acts to put minorities in senior roles, 26 December).
The bishop of Truro is legal to recognise that, and rather,the heart of the problem is at the parish level, though calling for “wider doors” is too unspecific to be itself a solution. Multi-ethnic parishes raise specific challenges: on the one hand of identifying and countering the ways racism in its various forms nullifies our ministry; and on the other hand, or of needing to develop the “cultural intelligence” to reply to very varied expectations of church (as evidenced in the account of the United Pentecostal Faith church in Lambeth).
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Source: theguardian.com