Sarah Mullally says ‘national conversations… continue to divide us when our common humanity should unite us’
The incoming archbishop of Canterbury has warned in her Christmas Day sermon that “our national conversations about immigration continue to divide us, when our common humanity should unite us”.
Acting in her current role as the bishop of London, Dame Sarah Mullally told St Paul’s Cathedral: “Joy is born exactly where despair expects to triumph. As joy breaks through in our lives it gives us the opportunity to become people who make room.
“Room in our homes. Room in our churches. Room in our public conversations and in the attitudes we hold. The joy asks us to allow our lives to be interrupted by the needs of others, just as the people of Bethlehem were interrupted.”
Mullally continued: “This insight matters because our own society carries uncertainties that can wear us down. Many feel the weight of economic pressure. Some feel pushed to the margins.
