She is known only as patient 143. All we know of her is that she was 14, and has just died from cancer; that her mother hated her father and had not let him see her since she was 7; that her parents clashed in a court case in London to test the legality of her last early-teen wish, - to have her body frozen at the cost of $35,000.
Democracy is at first sight a very frightening idea. In what other context would you ask people with passionate tribal allegiances, but who clearly have…
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One of the great gifts of the charismatic movement was to reintroduce to the church the need and the ability to ‘test the spirits’. Those…
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In Toronto, Canada, two professors are having a very public row. One is a professor of Clinical Psychology and the other a professor of Physics.…
Continue reading → When refusing to call a man ‘they’ becomes a ‘hate crime’ ©Gavin Ashenden.
Having moved to England, I have retired for a second time. The first time was from being a University lecturer and chaplain, and now after…
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