Rosemarie Mallett: ‘Jesus calls us to bring about justice. But we can’t do it without him’
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Megan Cornwell2023-06-05T10:12:00
The Bishop of Croydon on slavery, racism and the role of repentance
Rt Rev Dr Rosemarie Mallett, Bishop of Croydon, describes herself as “one of the left-behind children” – minors who stay with family members while their parents seek economic opportunities elsewhere. As a child, she remained in her home country of Barbados – then a British colony – while her mother and brothers travelled to the UK as part of Generation Windrush. They were reunited in 1966, by which time her parents had settled in Coventry.
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