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Gavin Ashenden
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Critical race theory should not be taught in schools
It is time that the Church, and especially its bishops, clergy and educators, repudiated and rejected critical race theory.
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Hollywood, exorcisms and evil
Hollywood's relationship with evil is a complex one.
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An Easter special that breaks through the cancellation of Christianity in the public media
In a small but evocatively beautiful church in Tottenham, London, an Easter celebration hosted by Calvin Robinson that GB News is streaming on Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday, brought together four gifted, competent and attractive exponents of the Christian faith.
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The cancelling of Fr Pullicino should mark the beginning of the fightback
Christians are at last beginning to stir from their post-linguistically-mugged lethargy, and fighting back.
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The case for leaving the Church of England
The shock of a Church deciding to bless sin has caused many evangelical Anglicans to re-think whether they can stay. Can they honourably serve God in an institution that some think has come close to the sin against the Holy Spirit?
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The Church of England's moral drift will not stop here
Now the battle for gay blessings has been won, it will move on to gay marriage within a fairly short period.
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The choice to the Church: speak up or keep your head down
Gavin Ashenden on why he has withdrawn his application to be ordained as a priest in the Catholic Church.
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The pressures to change the Coronation oath
A change in the Coronation oath would have major implications.
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Will the Western Church go the same way as the Conservative party?
The Conservatives are watching their own demise with all the horror and fixated despair that a slow train crash would bring on. The Church should, as Jesus often suggested, learn to read the signs of the times with the intention of avoiding the same fate.
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God save the King
If King Charles means what he says in his oath to act as Defender of the Faith, he may find that he places himself in both the spiritual and political firing line in the culture wars.
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Mourning the loss of our Queen and all that she embodied
The mourning that will accompany the Queen's passing will be a grief not only for a remarkable woman, a treasured mother, a dignified grandmother and a much-loved Queen, it will also include a sorrow for the passing of a Christianised culture whose deepest and most noble virtues she represented and embodied, writes her former Chaplain, Gavin Ashenden.
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Meeting Jordan Peterson
One question the Peterson phenomenon poses to the Christian community is how is it that an agnostic psychologist with a penchant for Pelagianism can hold the attention of the young in their scores of thousands as he explores the psychological depths and authenticity of the books of Genesis and Exodus, and yet the clergy cannot?
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Melvin Tinker and the flaws of evangelical Anglicanism
The challenge his passing leaves the Anglican evangelical community is to renounce party spirit, repent of social snobbery and face the implication of his judgement that the Church of England is 'beyond repair.'
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Melvin Tinker: a tribute
Gavin Ashenden remembers Melvin Tinker as "one of the most outstanding evangelical clergy of his generation".
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What does Christianity have to do with human rights?
To the extent that the Church loses its confidence in the experience of the miraculous, the holy and the supernatural, it will have nothing to say that distinguishes itself from well-meaning humanism.
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