Rt Rev Dr Graham Tomlin delivered the Premier Lecture on Wednesday night with a stark warning that we could see something similarly tragic happen again unless we rethink what it looks like for people to live together in society.
While saying there is a need to hold people to account, he called for a societal change which sees people loving their neighbour whatever their social standing.
“If the Inquiry produces its results, culprits are identified and perhaps given prison sentences, that would satisfy a certain need for justice, or even revenge, but it still would not resolve anything fundamental.
“If we allocate blame, punish the guilty, and then carry on as before, then there is no guarantee that something like this will not happen again, or even more, we will perpetuate the deeper conditions and attitudes that led us to this point.
“We might even issue new types of building regulations, or safety measures in construction, but even that I suggest would not be enough.
“The kind of repentance that Jesus calls for, and indeed the Grenfell Tower fire calls for is deeper – a radical look at the way we live together in our society.”
Next week marks the first anniversary of the fire.
Bishop Graham was speaking as the public inquiry into the fire is in full swing.
He suggested there were many reasons for the fire…
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