The cross is not a sword- it is the key that open the human heart. ©Gavin Ashenden.
I was walking through Gatwick airport at about the same time as the bombs were going off at Brussels’ airport. The people who died in…
Page 151 of 154
Dr Gavin Ashenden A brief biography
Gavin Ashenden lives partly in Shropshire and partly in Normandy. He was until 2016 a part time parish priest, looking after a small parish on…
Good News-Evidence that biological death is not the end. © Gavin Ashenden
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.
Holiness lasts longer than politics-the limits of democracy. © Gavin Ashenden
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…
Continue reading → Holiness lasts longer than politics-the limits of democracy. © Gavin Ashenden
Answering heresy amongst the bishops of the Church of England. © Gavin Ashenden
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…
Continue reading → Answering heresy amongst the bishops of the Church of England. © Gavin Ashenden