Revd Canon Grace Thomas joins AMEN ExCo

AMEN are delighted to announce that the Revd Canon Grace Thomas has been appointed as Clergy Representative for the Northern Province on the Executive Committee of the Anglican Minority Ethnic Network (AMEN). The appointment, by co-option, was agreed by the AMEN ExCo at their meeting in January and will be brought to the next AGM for reaffirmation.

On confirmation of her appointment Canon Grace said "How delighted I am to have been appointed - thank you so much, it is a real honour. The work of AMEN remains so important and relevant and I will be glad to be able to support it more".

She is Canon Missioner at Manchester Cathedral and Diocesan Environmental Officer. She teaches ecotheology and is undertaking doctoral research into climate grief, conducted through a decolonising paradigm. Grace's most recent publication is the co-edited 'Chaplaincy: Contemporary and Global Perspectives', where she also contributed a chapter on decolonising perspectives.  She regularly presents Radio 2’s Pause for Thought and Radio 4’s Daily Service and is the Chair of Greater Together Manchester.

In her sermon at Manchester Cathedral on Racial Justice Sunday she said "Echoes from the past should neither be ignored, nor should they cause us to be burdened with shame. Dwelling in shame is not acting for justice. Shame causes us to look inwardly. Justice calls us to act outwardly. To act justly is not to wallow in the harms of the past, or to deny the truths of the present, but instead to allow ourselves to be transformed by the Holy Spirit in order to act for a better tomorrow, to pray that on Earth it shall be as it is in heaven. The work of justice is the work of reckoning, the work of allowing ourselves to be disturbed"

You can read the whole sermon here:

Racial Justice Sunday 2026 Revd Canon Grace Thomas.pdf

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