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Gavin Ashenden
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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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The problem with the 'born gay' theory
Was Christianity always wrong? Or has progressive Protestantism lost its moorings and slipped inexorably away from the astute spiritual analysis of the Christian tradition to become indistinguishable from secular liberalism?
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The pandemic has been a missed opportunity for the Church
If the churches were seriously committed to the welfare of our neighbours in general, why did they not speak up on behalf of those being killed by lockdown?
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On the Joe Biden question, the US bishops are right
Gavin Ashenden on why he thinks US Catholic bishops would be right to prevent access to communion for Joe Biden because of his stance on abortion.
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The cruel age of group think leaves no room for forgiveness
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?
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
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
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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