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…
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.
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…
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…
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