The 2027 Racial Justice Sunday (RJS) resources have the title ‘Being Peacemakers and Justice Seekers Where We Live’. It is a call to Christians and churches to explore what it means to pursue these virtues in the places and spaces where they reside.
Our world is overburdened by war and conflict, we can start to believe that war, rather than peace, is the natural order of things. To paraphrase Revd Dr Martin Luther King Jr, we live in a world where people study war, instead of investing in peace. Yet Christians are called by Jesus, the Prince of Peace, to be peacemakers (Matthew 5:9). The Racial Justice Sunday resources invite us to be ‘salt and light’ where we live, to become a people who, in the well-known words of the noted Catholic friar St Francis of Assisi, are ‘channels of [God’s] peace’.
