Gavin Ashenden
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- Sep 28, 2026
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- Jul 22, 2026
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Michael’s question: ‘Who is like God?’ (opens the original)
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The feast of St Michael the Archangel either presents an invitation to engage with the world of the spirit and the supernatural, or becomes essentially an embarrassing festival of nostalgia about an outworn cosmology which, in the mind of the modernist, threatens to delegitimise faith rather than infuse it with new vigour. People without etymology or Hebrew may have become so used to the name Michael that its embodiment as a theological question passes them by. But it shouldn’t, because as a the
Betraying the abolitionists (opens the original)
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William Wilberforce and his fellow abolitionists, including the group known as “the Clapham Sect”, achieved something that seemed almost impossible: they ended Britain’s pernicious and lucrative transatlantic slave trade. With the energetic, valiant and self-sacrificial help of the Royal Navy, they enforced that abolition on the high seas. The economic cost alone was enormous. The courage required was substantial. The present Archbishop of Canterbury, however, has gone on a tour of Africa during
Genesis, Einstein and the Light of the World (opens the original)
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When viewed through the combined lens of Genesis and Einstein, Jesus’s claim to be “the light of the world”, rather than the space or time of the world, takes on an unexpected depth. Oddly enough, it was the recent excitement about extraterrestrial life that sent me back to the opening chapter of Genesis. I greatly enjoyed Prof Hannah Fry’s explanation of why contact with alien civilisations is so unlikely. Even if intelligent life exists elsewhere, the speed of light and the vast timescales ove
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