A Church of England archdeacon has been labelled racist after openly calling for “anti-whiteness.”
The Ven Miranda Threlfall-Holmes, Archdeacon of Liverpool wrote on X “I went to a conference on whiteness last autumn. It was very good, very interesting and made me realise: whiteness is to race as patriarchy is to gender.”
Threlfall-Holmes, who is white, added “So yes, let’s have anti-whiteness, and let’s smash the patriarchy. That’s not anti-white, or anti-men, it’s anti-oppression.”
Anti-whiteness isn’t anti-white? What exactly is it then?
When asked to explain by The Telegraph, Threlfall-Holmes claimed that X is “perhaps not the best place for a nuanced argument,” adding “I was contributing to a debate about world views, in which ‘whiteness’ does not refer to skin colour per se, but to a way of viewing the world where being white is seen as ‘normal’ and everything else is considered different or lesser.”
The backlash was swift:
The Telegraph notes that the conference the Archdeacon is referring to was a day-long “Racial Justice Conference” in Birmingham organised by Reconciliation Initiatives, a charity working in partnership with Coventry Cathedral to help churches “contribute to reconciliation in wider society”.
The report further notes that the conference aimed “To encourage white participants to take next steps in facing their own whiteness, and in addressing institutional racism within Anglican churches and provinces.”
The group is also running a four-week long course titled “Being White” which asks clergy and lay members to consider “the ways we are caught up in a system of white superiority and white advantage in UK society.”
The Church of England has been heavily criticised recently for leaning into this kind of stuff.
The church recently announced it would be hiring a “deconstructing whiteness” officer to form part of a “racial justice unit” being set up by the Diocese of Birmingham.
In 2023 the CofE also established a £100 million fund to “address past wrongs of slavery,” even as some church buildings are literally falling apart.
In 2021, the CofE announced it was introducing quotas for black and ethnic clergy to pave the way for ‘anti-racism training’ in the Church, as well as ‘contextualising church statues that may cause offence.”
The CofE has become so infested with wokery in general to the point that it has considered dropping the phrase “our Father” from the start of the Lord’s Prayer, and instructing clergy to refrain from using male pronouns when talking about God.
Some churches have gone as far as erasing references to the nativity and Jesus in a Christmas carol and replacing them with a celebration of “queer” people.
In July last year, the Church of England refused to define what a woman was, saying they had no definition of it on their books, despite still ostensibly opposing same sex marriage.
Also last year, a vicar was officially rebuked for expressing criticism of the CofE’s decision to appoint a transgender archdeacon, after he noted that the person is “biologically, a bloke.”
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The Monarch is the Supreme Governer of the Church of England, this is what said Supreme Governance has brought things to. Britain is gone, as a nation of its own historic people, and the Monarchy which bears much of the blame will soon enough be gone too in the same sense at least.
Not very inclusive or Christian of you, Archbitch.
That’s why i wrote a book a few years back called: Church: The Secular Lord’s House
Every major Christian denomination was created by and for the State.
And protestant/evangelical churches aren’t immune. They are incorporated by a State (like the old Letters of Charter) and are run by a secular corporation vs. the Spirit of God.
…until she gets the radiator hose up her exhaust port.
The Church of England doesn’t follow Christianity.
Hmm. I wonder why church attendance is in terminal decline?
Honey, you aren’t in charge of anything in your fake “church”.
Now, shut your yap and go make a man a sandwich…on white bread.
The Leftist Patriarchy is firmly in charge and demands you adhere to their doctrine.
I never bought into the “women should keep quiet in church” teaching, believing it was Paul reflecting the social mores at the time he wrote his letters.
That is, until I read this woman’s comments. I think Paul was onto something.
Paul was writing Scripture. Peter verifies that in his epistles. 1st Timothy is specific about disallowing female pastors and overseers in the Church. The reason the Lord gives is the woman transgressed but the man was decieved.
This female archdeacon’s comments brings up an idea for the title of a new book – “Lunatics Within the Church”.
Satans smiles down upon his little stupid Slave!
(Did somebody say “Synagogue of Satan”!?)
This woman is not a Christian, the bible clearly teaches women are not permitted to hold positions of authority within the Church. And this is the clear reason
Amen!
Is anti-blackness allowed to be talked about in the C of E?