Choosing between Jesus and Mohammed.
I need to put the record straight. It’s all too easy for clergy to suffer from pomposity. I’m often describe as the Queen’s chaplain, whereas…
I need to put the record straight. It’s all too easy for clergy to suffer from pomposity. I’m often describe as the Queen’s chaplain, whereas…
(Aleppo Cathedral - open for worship again- Christmas 2016- after being vandalised by the Muslim occupiers.) I have just returned from Paris where I was…
: 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
On New Year’s Day, President al-Sisi of Egypt made a remarkable speech . How, he asked, could belief in Islam make Muslim nations a “source…
Continue reading → Islam and Violence: Op Ed column in the London Times- Dr Gavin Ashenden.