Gavin Ashenden

From ‘Miracle in Darien’ to demolition: the rise and fall of St Paul’s

xThe former St Paul’s Episcopal Church building in Darien is to be demolished and its 14.4-acre campus prepared for sale for residential development, bringing a physical end to the home of the charismatic renewal once celebrated as the Miracle in Darien. Darien’s Planning and Zoning...

St Helen’s Bishopsgate in talks with ‘heretical’ bishops over REACH ordinations

The Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate, the Revd William Taylor, has revealed that he is in talks with a Church of England archbishop and three other bishops about regularising the alternative ordinations of conservative evangelical ministers by the Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South...
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From ‘Miracle in Darien’ to demolition: the rise and fall of St Paul’s

xThe former St Paul’s Episcopal Church building in Darien is to be demolished and...

St Helen’s Bishopsgate in talks with ‘heretical’ bishops over REACH ordinations

The Rector of St Helen’s Bishopsgate, the Revd William Taylor, has revealed that he...

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