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Gavin Ashenden
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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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Is the Church of England's church-planting vision realistic?
Civil war, of the politest kind, has been declared in the Church of England over its parish system.
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The Church of England's historic parishes deserve better
Having a vision for a new way of doing church would be more impressive had it included a way of renewing, as well as funding the old way of doing Church; and had a coherent ecclesiology that linked them.
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Why the fuss about Latin Mass?
Everyone knows that faith in general and Christianity in particular faces the most serious of crises at the beginning of the 21st century. The argument about the Latin Mass also represents two very different diagnoses of what the problem is, and what the solution might or ought to be.
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Has the Church of England become just as afraid of speaking about death as everyone else?
There was a time when the role of the Church was to help people prepare for the good death. But now the Church appears to be as afraid of talking about the taboo as anyone else.
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