Further to Professor Linda Woodhead’s comments (Letters, 30 January), I do not recognise our Anglican churches as “sectarian” in any sense. In the last week, we have run a lunch club for the elderly, shared cooking skills between a diversity of women, attended to the needs of asylum seekers and refugees, taught conversational English, housed at least seven rough sleepers, helped with basic literacy for children, housed four sessions of a municipal library, and much more. We also made bread. Few of the people involved in these activities identify as Christian or belong to our inner-city churches. However, in one of the poorest neighbourhoods of the UK – where Muslims mightily outnumber Christians – one of our churches is growing. Just this week we had sev