Rosemarie Mallett: ‘Jesus calls us to bring about justice. But we can’t do it without him’

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.