For ALL the saints!

I wonder why the saints in our stained glass windows are often not just European-looking, but also excessively white?

Ethnic minority ordinands reportedly say that the theology taught in our training colleges and universities is also stiflingly Eurocentric.

These thoughts were suggested to me by the person who leads the Council for Minority Ethnic Anglican Concerns (CMEAC), Dr Elizabeth Henry. CMEAC is hoping to publish a book to mark its 30th anniversary, and it will be about the saints of minority ethnic groups.

As secretary of the Churches Network for Gypsies, Travellers and Roma, I have been asked to find someone who is Romani to write a chapter about a Romani saint. If you are interested, please text message me on 0751 811 7798. Likewise if you are a Scottish, Irish or Welsh Traveller, willing to write about one of your saints.