Dr Gavin Ashendon was the Queen of England’s personal chaplain from 2008 until he resigned from the progressively wokeifying Church of England in 2017 as a matter of conscience. So he knows full well the mud wrestling which Fr Calvin Robinson had to endure in seeking his own ordination in that denomination.

Calvin is a strong, conservative Christian and had his own show on GB News before he was cancelled for criticising the platform’s capitulation to the Woke mob.

Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson were both suspended last week pending internal investigations that have now concluded. As of today, GB News has ended its employment relationship with Laurence Fox and Calvin Robinson. The internal investigation into Dan Wootton continues.

— GB News (@GBNEWS) October 4, 2023

Calvin was asked to speak at a Christian conference in America on ‘critical theories are antithetical to the Gospel’. Calvin gave an excellent speech addressing the roots of the problem, rather than the symptoms. His thesis is that the ground conceded to feminism in too many Christian denominations has resulted naturally in gender theory, queer theory, and critical race theory also becoming prevalent.

Whether or not one personally believes in the ordination of women to the priesthood, it is an unremarkable proposition that turning thousands of years of orthodox doctrine on its head has been more than coincidentally parallel with feminist activism in culture, and became a precedent for further arguments of eroding orthodoxy.

Someone got offended.

And so, in the middle of the conference, Calvin Robinson was cancelled, again, from the rest of the conference! It actually served to prove his point. He was privately rebuked for his talk (which was within the brief he was given) and was told he would not be welcome on the stage for the panel discussions yet to come in which he would have added needed but subsequently missing perspectives as one of the few conservatives there.

Dr Gavin Ashendon has produced an informative and insightful, third-party discussion of the issues debated, and readers may watch it here.

But the big question for the world now is, where is left for Fr Calvin Robinson? Where will he still be welcome after being assiduously snubbed by the Bishops of The Church of England, being fired by GB News, and being cancelled by a major Christian conference in America?

And the answer is the Antipodes! Fr Calvin Robinson is a keynote speaker at the seventh annual Australian Church And State Summit in Brisbane on Friday 8 March. I am that conference’s director, and I sincerely hope Fr Calvin is able to offend at least a few people with his preaching, because that’s precisely what Christians need when we’ve strayed from the straight and narrow.

The whole theme of the Summit is Reformation, in the sense of spiritual, cultural, and political reformation which leads us back to what is true and unpolluted. Even when our doctrine is good and uncompromised, it is incredibly healthy to be open to being confronted by sincere, loving, established teachers in the faith, as well as trusted believers we are in relationship with. We must deeply reflect on whether we are being conformed to the world, or whether we are being transformed by the renewing of our mind as Scripture commands, so we may test and approve what is the good and perfect will of God.

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— Dave Pellowe (@DavePellowe) December 22, 2023

How do we heal, preserve, and season our culture like salt does if we have lost our saltiness – as we do when our denominations instead endlessly drift toward the culture?

Far from cancelling Fr Calvin in the middle of the conference, what should have happened was a sincere and charitable debate over doctrine if any of the other speakers felt he was way off base. That’s exactly how Paul and Peter conducted themselves publicly in the early Church, instead of getting all huffy and toxic like, well, feminists!

Spectator Australia readers are invited to use the code FW20 to save 20% off their General Admission tickets when they register for the Church And State Summit. Further conference events are scheduled around Australia this year, and the Summit will also be broadcast live on ADH.TV. Get more information and save your seats right now at ChurchAndState.com.au.