{"id":148535,"date":"2026-11-04T17:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148535"},"modified":"2026-11-04T18:25:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:25:25","slug":"church-times-justin-welby-says-slavery-reparations-would-amount-to-group-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148535","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Justin Welby says slavery reparations would amount to \u2018group punishment\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reparations for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/slavery\">slavery<\/a> would amount to a \u201cvast fine on the entire British people for a crime they did not commit\u201d, the former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/archbishop-of-canterbury\">Archbishop of Canterbury<\/a> the Rt Revd <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/justin-welby\">Justin Welby<\/a> said this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYou may be able to fine individual people for their conduct, but not everyone for their nationality,\u201d he wrote in <em>T<\/em><em>he Independent<\/em> on Tuesday. \u201cGroup punishment is a moral evil. It mixes up the guilty and the innocent even when it is about contemporary times, let alone two centuries past.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The article was published on the same day as a speech made by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/the-king\">King<\/a> at the opening of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/commonwealth\">Commonwealth<\/a> Heads of Government Meeting in St John\u2019s, Antigua. The transatlantic trade in enslaved persons was a \u201cshameful chapter of history\u201d that \u201cfills my heart with horror and my soul with the most profound personal sorrow\u201d, the King said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The UK Government has so far resisted calls for reparations, although the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/topics\/prime-minister\">Prime Minister<\/a> has indicated that a formal apology may be forthcoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2026\/6-november\/news\/uk\/justin-welby-says-slavery-reparations-would-amount-to-group-punishment\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reparations for slavery would amount to a \u201cvast fine on the entire British people for a crime they did not commit\u201d, the former Archbishop of Canterbury the Rt Revd Justin Welby said this week. \u201cYou may be able to fine<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148535\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175,186,324,199,168,120,108,441,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-church-history","category-church-of-england","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-racerace-relations","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148535"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148539,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148535\/revisions\/148539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}