The impending closure of Heythrop College (Letters, 25 July) is not just a blow for the Jesuit order, but for the Christian cause in England and Wales. The decision to establish a Jesuit place of philosophical and theological dialogue in the centre of London has benefited and encouraged many of us outside the confines of the college itself. We all of us stand to lose. I hope the Jesuits and the Church in England and Wales will not treat this as a little local difficulty. The consequences are wider than that, and so is the fund of support and good will available to be drawn on in the search for a solutionJohn Wilkins, London SW1I am a minister of the United Reformed Church, who studied at Heythrop for the Master of Theology Degree in the Philosophy of Religion. As such I am “from the