Richard Reddie

George Floyd and the church – five years on: justice or jargon?

14 May 2025I would argue that at the time, British and Irish churches were playing catch-up on racial justice and so were unable to shape or lead the conversations on those equality-related issues which came into focus after May 2020. Nature abhors a vacuum, and with regard to racial justice, into this vacuum we witnessed several secular organisations, of differing ideologies, positing their panaceas to address the problem. One of the many great things about Dr Martin Luther King Jr and his generation of…