Racial Justice Sunday is on February 8 2026.
Resources for churches: Racial Justice Sunday – CTBI
Why should it matter to us in Norfolk and Waveney? Why is Racial Justice Sunday important? Revd Canon Karlene Kerr is the Rural Dean of Lynn and Chair of the Racial Justice Action Group, she explains in this helpful short film. If you prefer to read, the text is below the video.
Hello,
My name is Karlene and I believe that Racial Justice Sunday is important, because as Christians we worship a God who says of himself, I am a God of Justice.
And this means that justice should also be our focus. It also means that we can’t be selective when it comes to justice.
We can’t on the one hand support economic and environmental justice, but dismiss racial justice because we may deem it unnecessary or because it may make us uncomfortable.
Racial Justice Sunday is important because the effects of the transatlantic slave trade is still being felt in our churches today, in the attitudes and assumptions we carry, about who leads and who must be led, who is deserving of our automatic acceptance and respect and whose competency and authority is often doubted and even questioned.
Racial justice, indeed justice of any kind, demands that we adopt the posture of Zacchaeus. We must strive to meet Jesus. We must accept his invitation and offer him our repentance, restitution and reconciliation. For it is then Jesus promise will hold true for us. Salvation has come to this house.
Revd Tim Yau is a Pioneer Missioner and Interim Team Minister in the Sprowston team in Norwich. He explains the effects of racism on his family growing up in rural Lincolnshire.
This video was filmed in 2023.
Revd Cheryl Ramballi is Associate Priest of the Blofield and Broadside benefices and a member of the Racial Justice Action Group in the Diocese of Norwich. She has written this helpful article
On Sunday 8th February the eight churches in the Blofield and Broadside benefices will come together for a service to commemorate Racial Justice Sunday.
We will hear stories from members of the ministry Team whose mission took them to places like India and Romania of racial injustice towards them as Caucasians in trying to help the local people, showing that racial injustice rears its head in many different forms.
The importance of Racial Justice Sunday is that it makes a space in the church calendar to tell the stories in the way that Jesus did. Using examples that people can connect with and so help them to better understand that there are injustices that we as brothers and sisters in Christ should challenge, because Jesus has asked us to.
Jesus said love your neighbour and then told the story of the Good Samaritan to help us all to better understand how important it is for us to care for one another irrespective of colour, creed or race.
Racial Justice Sunday offers a space for the parish church to re-iterate Jesus’ commandment in their locality and to bring the conversation right where they are placed, potentially to dispel the myth that racial injustice is something happening elsewhere and not in our backyard, so it’s nothing to do with us. But is that the truth?.
The parish church can reach so many people across the nation so is it not incumbent on church to recognise the importance of Racial Justice Sunday and use the time to address this important issue.
In offering us one of the greatest and divine directives to build a world that knows love, peace and joy, Jesus said Love your neighbour.