Move over Equality, Equity is the new kid in town: Here’s what it means
Tom Underhill
Over the past few years, corporate HR departments and public bodies have quietly been wielding their Tipp-Ex in a bulk deletion of the letters ‘a’ and ‘l’. ‘Equality’ has been changed to ‘equity’ in a mass rebranding of EDI (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion) departments and initiatives.
Or maybe it wasn’t quiet: perhaps in your experience it was heralded with great fanfare. Either way, this deletion represents a significant extension of the EDI mission, now almost synonymous with the one term, Equity. So what is Equity, what does this change imply, and how should we think Christianly about these matters?
Bible Teaching Trust
Tom Underhill
Date posted: 1 Mar 2017
Dear Sir,
The February en reported that Rupert Bentley-Taylor was planting a new church in a working-class area of Bath. In fact, while Rupert is an active member of a new church (Emmanuel) in a socially diverse area of Bath, he works entirely in an itinerant ministry, teaching across the UK and beyond at churches, conferences etc.