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Gavin Ashenden
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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Gavin Ashenden on why he has withdrawn his application to be ordained as a priest in the Catholic Church.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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Asking questions doesn't make me a 'climate denier'
Those who question the ecological line become 'climate deniers'. But science depends on people testing theories in order to falsify or confirm them.
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With the growth of Islam and secularism, how Christian will Britain's next coronation be?
The coronation of King Charles III will provide a testing moment of truth for what have become the new stresses, strains and fault lines of Western culture in today's United Kingdom.
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The paradox of Halloween
When so many people want just comfort and pleasure in life, why engage with a public festival at the end of October that courts horror and death?
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The Queen and her Christian faith
The strange paradox is that the Queen's virtues are admired on all sides, but stripped of the recognition that they are profoundly Christian in character.
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The impact and significance of Michael Nazir-Ali's conversion to Catholicism
This is without doubt one of the most politically and theologically significant changes of allegiance in the Christian world for some time.
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What might St Michael have to say about being re-named 'St Mike'?
However well-meaning it is intended to be, and despite a laudable ambition to get down with the kids, changing St Michael's to St Mike's might miss the point.
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