Each time when Britain has never felt more divided, we should draw on Christian worths to decline hate and concentrate on what unites us

When you think of the unedifying political furore regarding the open iftar held in Trafalgar Square, attempt to remember that each year on Remembrance Day– a stone’s throw from Trafalgar Square– the bishop of London leads a public Christian act of lamentation in the open air. It is an act of religious observation which happens in cities, communities and towns throughout the country. Along with the hymns sung, there are readings from the Bible and petitions made for Jesus Christ, and a true blessing invoking the divine trinity. In Leeds, where I have the honour of leading the service alongside the Roman Catholic dean of Leeds, I am come with by leaders from other faiths: Jewish, Hindu, Sikh and Muslim. We collaborate in this public, al fresco, unmistakably Christian service.Over years of attending and performing such solutions– and others like it such as those kept in memory of Queen Elizabeth II– I have never ever listened to a complaint from those of other confidences that such services stood for a” domination of the general public sphere “or that such services in our civic spaces were “an expression of power and scare tactics “. Arun Arora is diocesan of Kirkstall in the diocese

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