TIMES are changing. Two of my great heroes have recently been banned from speaking on university campuses. Twenty years ago they were firebrand radicals, alarming…
Continue reading → In Defence of Freedom of Speech. ©Gavin Ashenden.
“The end is Nye.” Except that it is not. A few weeks ago, Mr Nye, a Church civil servant, stepped into the arguments about whether…
Continue reading → The End is ‘Nye’….The culture war in the C of E. © Gavin Ashenden
: Events have moved swiftly in the week before Christmas. After the shock of the assassination of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, and the murders…
Continue reading → Hope in the shadows of the solstice -Ankara, Berlin & Bethlehem. © Gavin Ashenden
There used to be just truth and lies, but it's got more complex of late. Some people are talking about our being in an age…
The thought of leaving Canterbury, spiritually or emotionally, breaks my heart. I grew up there. I spent five years in the school built around its…
Continue reading → Leaving home – the future of the Christian faith in England.