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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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Do traditionalist Catholics really want the Pope dead?
Far from wanting him dead, it is more likely that faithful Catholics are praying for their Pope to become as alive in prophetic discernment as he is tender in compassion.
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The Church should be at the forefront of a passionate opposition to assisted suicide
There are two possibilities to legalising assisted suicide which are clearly foreseeable and which on their own ought to cause the most serious hesitations.
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What should we make of the Church in Wales' gay marriage blessings?
The Church is indeed divided. But the division is not between old and new, but between a secularised sub-Christianity that prioritises sex, romance and the human appetite, and an orthodox Christianity contoured by the Bible, tradition and the Holy Spirit rather than a secular spirit.
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Nottingham University's illiberal censorship of Christianity
Nottingham University has cancelled a pro-abortion priest - and it does not bode well for the liberty of Christians.
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What do Jesus, Muhammad and Marx have to do with the turmoil in Afghanistan?
Islam, Marxism (as a form of utopian totalitarianism) and Christianity are reacting, indeed struggling, with and against each other in different configurations across the globe.
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