A misguided quest for equality in the Church is driving usfurther and further away from God, writes Gavin Ashenden

As with chess, so with battles that the Church is engaged with at the hands of a hostile secular culture, there are just a few basic opening moves. In chess it’s often the “Rudy Lopez”, the “Sicilian Defense” or the “Queen’s Gambit”.

But the Church faces not so much a chess game as a struggle for the integrity of its own soul. The culture wars are a matter of spiritual life or death.