Nicky Gumbel: ‘If we want to see revival, we must address the sin of racism’

The rejection of the Windrush Generation was a self-inflicted wound from which the Church is still recovering, says Alpha pioneer, Nicky Gumbel

According to David Baddiel, I’m not white, I’m minority ethnic. I’ve never really experienced racism for being Jewish, but the impact of the racism that my father experienced has had a huge, indirect effect on my life. I lost a lot of my family in the Holocaust. The fact that my father was traumatised had an impact on my upbringing. The way I brought up my children was probably impacted by the relationship between me and my father. These things last for generations.