On 5 November, the Church of England published a report for the Archbishops’ Commission for Racial Justice, Behind the Stained-Glass: A Report on the Participation of UK Minoritised Ethnic People in the Ministry and Leadership of the Church of England. The report by a team led by Professor Paul Miller concludes that although the study did not set out to prove or disprove the presence or absence of institutional and/or structural racism within the Church of England, on balance, the evidence confirmed the existence of both structural and institutional racism within the Church.

Its overall findings are as follows: Continue reading →