THE Very Revd Winnie Varghese, installed last weekend as Dean of St John the Divine Cathedral, New York, the largest cathedral in the United States, is hopeful, despite the challenges ahead: both in the political context of the rise of Christian nationalism and the financial challenges facing every church, and St John’s more than most, given its size and running costs. “I am those things, and in this Church I am still an anomaly: I remember the limits to my own imagination of what was possible in my life as a child, and, if it cracks open imagination for some children or young people, I’m glad. Its future existence depended on that witness, she explained: equipping people to imagine God’s dream for their lives and communities.