Gavin Ashenden

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  The cruel age of group think leaves no room for forgiveness

  Gavin Ashenden | Wed 9 Jun 2021 12:31 BST

  There must surely be a creeping anxiety spreading thoughout the English cricket team - what tweets from their teenage years lie like time bombs waiting to be discovered? What adolescent thought crimes may slip out of the long forgotten murky past to destroy their career?

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  Were we too quick to close our doors during the pandemic?

  Gavin Ashenden | Sat 22 May 2021 9:28 BST

  The government has committed itself to an inquiry examining if it got its priorities right in locking the nation down. Perhaps the churches should do the same, writes Dr Gavin Ashenden.

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  Prince Philip: a most loyal husband and consort

  Gavin Ashenden | Fri 9 Apr 2021 14:43 BST

  He exemplified patience, long-suffering, humility and kindness, when the cost of all of these virtues was demandingly high.

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  The State, freedom of conscience and civil disobedience

  Gavin Ashenden | Tue 7 Jul 2020 9:25 BST

  It is a legal and moral duty for the Church to challenge the jurisprudential and ethical authority of the state to have set a precedent in the authoritarian closing of churches and prohibition of worship.

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  The circle of royal duty that Harry and Meghan are finding difficult to square

  Gavin Ashenden | Thu 9 Jan 2020 10:11 GMT

  The announcement from Harry and Meghan will cause a variety of responses from the public. One of them will be sadness.