The Patrick Coffin Show podcast features weekly interviews with A-list influencers and outliers in the effort to recover the Judeo-Christian roots of the culture. Patrick is the Canadian-born former host of Catholic Answers Live, and he has raving fans around the world. He injects these fascinating interviews with his own distinctive blend of depth and levity. If you’re tired of politically correct media speak, you want to see God back in the public square, and you’re not allergic to having a laugh, this is the place to be.
Gavin Ashenden
His official title was Honorary Chaplain to the Queen (QHC), kind of a big deal for any Anglican clergyman. Then Rt. Rev Gavin Ashenden held the position from 2008 until 2017, when he left following, inter alia, a public liturgical reading in a Glasgow cathedral from the Quran that denied the divinity of Christ. A good Protestant, he protested. And then he parted ways with the established church.
The rest of the story is told in this interview with England’s highest-profile Catholic convert, received into the Catholic Church in December 2019.
In This Episode, You Will Learn
- The main influences in his spiritual life and the incident that triggered his conversion
- His thoughts on the Alpha Program
- Why he didn’t join the Anglican Ordinariate, erected by Pope Benedict XVI
- How nationalism, hyper-intellectualism, and collective pride have co-opted the Protestant world
- Why he stayed outside the Church for so long while understanding her better than many Catholics
- The strange rage from friends and family that so often gets unleashed at Catholic converts
- Ashenden’s plans for the future
Resources Mentioned
- The excellent blog of Dr. Gavin Ashenden
- Priestesses in the Church? Original essay by C.S. Lewis
https://www.patrickcoffin.media/from-chaplain-to-the-queen-to-catholic-convert/
