Sitting at the kitchen table in her home, a newly renovated apartment at the top of the Old Deanery, in the shadow of St Paul’s Cathedral, Sarah Mullally, the Bishop of London, is reflecting on the role the church should be playing for those who don’t have one.
“There is no doubt that, for people who do not have the stability of a home, there is a connection to instability in their life,” she says. “This winter a lot of churches will be opening their doors at night to provide shelters. In some places that will mean providing night shelter or food, in others it will be giving shelter for young people to go to between school and their home meal, to protect their vulnerability.”