Stuart Gunn

Galatians 3:28 (Good News Bible)

So there is no difference between Jews and Gentiles, between slaves and freemen, between men and women; you are all one in union with Christ Jesus.

It seemed to be important to me when I was teaching equal opportunities as part of a PGCE teacher training programme for University of Plymouth. There was great emphasis on this whole idea of equal opportunities within education and indeed within the wider society. It also felt as if we were teaching concepts about relationships between people which were quite new and even novel! I often drew my colleagues' attention to this Bible reading as an example of Christ's wisdom and his concern that people of all types and conditions should be treated with respect and fairness - a very early equal opportunities creed!