this is the first christmas season for the new dean of westminster abbey, dr david hoyle.been crowned and poets celebrated, it is at the heart of our nation, a nation that he says is bitterly divided. i see the divisions everybody else sees. i feel them. i get angry. and i get disturbed. i live in westminster, where i bump into it all the time. we need some hope in all of this. i think we've become angry and i think we've become despairing. dr hoyle says that we need an intervention from outside and that the message of christmas offers the possibility of genuine engagement without hostility. peace isn't the moment when the arguments stop. peace is the moment when we can contain our arguments. and that's where we are really struggling at the moment, it seems to me. we can't enjoy our variety. you have to be this or that. i think the gospel suggests this and that, they are both god—given. we can do this together. the story of a child refugee born in perilous circumstances is not the image depicted on most christmas cards. and yet, as the dean of this historic abbey makes cle

this is a first christmas season for the new dean of westminster abbey, dr david hoyle, an ancient cathedralpoets celebrated, it is at the heart of our nation, a nation that he says is bitterly divided. i see the divisions everybody else sees. i feel them. this — i get angry and i get disturbed, and i live in westminster, where i bump into it all the time. we need some hope in all of this. i think we've become angry and i think we've become despairing. dr hoyle says we need an intervention from outside and that the message of christmas offers the possibility of genuine engagement without hostility. peace isn't the moment when the arguments. peace is the moment when we can contain our arguments and that's where we're really struggling at the moment, it seems to me. we can't enjoy our variety. we have to be this or that. i think the gospel suggests this and that, they're both god—given. we can do this together. the story of a child refugee born in perilous circumstances is not the image depicted on most christmas cards, and yet, as the dean of this historic abbey makes clear, redemption and re