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[@lynnemccarthy4064]

What a wonderful group; what a wonderful conversation; what wonderful truths arising from faith in Christ. thank you!

[@caz9825]

Such a well thought out discussion. Thank you for creating this film

[@oyinladeoladipo]

I am pleased with this.

[@campbellpaget453]

This was very welcome and from some most inspiring individuals. Yes, there were a few non sequiturs and unconscious or conscious assumptions that were somewhat misleading and a little too general, but no church could be anything but impressed by the desire shown here for our churches and Christians to be more faithful to the biblical vision of humanity. It was unfortunate that in setting the scene the chairperson fell into the trap of quoting statistics and ratios. A statistic or a ratio on its own is not enough: it can and does here present a misleading and unhelpful impression. One has to look at the context and ask how that statistic is being used. Quoting the government's Race Disparity Audit's figures on poverty and arrests as examples of injustice and inequality without explanation, context, and apposite comparisons only serves to create guilt and fear. This is also true when talking about 'representation''. According to the last census, the UK was 87% white and 3% black: this has certain consequences with regard to representation. It would also have been of help in surveying the scene and the problem if the participants had said something about the hugely significant factors of culture, class, and circumstances which, as leading black intellectuals in the US have stressed, are responsible for many of the injustice and poverty outcomes the responsibility for which others would prefer to lay at the feet of such scientifically and academically unsound but politically and emotionally attractive concepts as 'systemic racism', 'white privilege', 'unconscious bias', etc. So whilst being 'wise' regarding 1 John 4: 1, we need always to keep 1 John 4: 11 in the vanguard of our thoughts and actions.