Kingsway-Lambton is committed to becoming an anti-racist denomination in all areas of life and work, including worship.

The United Church of Canada’s anti-racism policy, That All May Be One, names four key areas of work:

  • Organize for the full participation of all peoples.
  • Organize for diversity by supporting anti-racism work and promoting positive relationships among diverse peoples.
  • Act justly within the church’s structures, courts, policies, and practice.
  • Speak to the world by supporting anti-racism work within broader society.

Our commitment to racial justice includes building right relationships with our neighbours, particularly reconciliation between non-Indigenous and Indigenous peoples. It means engaging in interfaith dialogue and speaking out against violence and discrimination rooted in racial and religious bigotry, including Islamophobia and antisemitism. It finds expression in our intercultural vision. It means having the courage to talk about racism and White privilege in our church and in our society.

As Moderator Jordan Cantwell put it in 2017, “We need to name and examine our fears, prejudices, and assumptions. The privilege that many of us are born with may desensitize us to the injustice, exclusion, and hate that some in our community experience on a daily basis.” Only in that way can we build, as “That All May Be One” envisioned, a church and society “where all are welcome, where all feel welcome, and where diversity is as natural as breathing.”

 KL has created an anti-racism group, which has offered several "listening circles" and other events. For more info, or to contact us, our email address is arlskluc@gmail.com and our Instagram acct is: kl_arls.