Choosing anti-truth. The 3 Syriac bishops, the Home Office and Nissar Hussain. © 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…
Leaving home – the future of the Christian faith in England.
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…
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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…
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…
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…
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