Mark Woods
How to recognise spiritual abuse: 8 warning signs for churches
Often it's church leaders who abuse, or people with influence in the church. And it's not all one-sided â church leaders can be abused too.
Thanksgiving: Why God deserves more than a thumbs-up emoticon
It's January 8; we have all run out of excuses for not having written those thank-you cards by now.
Birds of the Bible: How they teach spiritual truth
In the Bible, birds are often mentioned because of some spiritual or poetical significance.
New Year's resolution to pray more? Three questions to help you
The idea that the eternal God would intervene in the small doings of his creatures is too hard for us to grasp.
These Muslims gave Christians a Christmas gift â and went to the heart of the gospel
Look back on 2017, and one of the most alarming things about it has been the rise of the far right.
Senior CofE bishop to front campaign for LGBT inclusion
One of the Church of England's senior bishops is to chair a new charity aimed at promoting greater acceptance of LGBT people by working with religious organisations around the world.
The fascinating stories behind these 3 famous carols
Carols, many of them familiar from childhood days, are a huge part of Christmas.
No room at the inn? Why Jesus wasn't really born in a stable
Everyone knows Jesus was born in a stable and laid in a manger because there was no room at the inn.
A Christmas based just on Mark's Gospel â challenging, but it could be done
Back when I was in pastoral ministry I developed the habit of preaching through the Passion story using one Gospel at a time, and going all the way through Lent up to Easter.
Can the secular media ever understand religion? Why it's harder than it looks
What often seems to be lacking in how religion is spoken about in the secular media is any sense of how it's actually experienced in the lives of believers.
Who is Sarah Mullally, the new Bishop of London?
The current Bishop of Crediton and future Bishop of London spent most of her career â 35 years â working in the National Health Service, having initially trained as a nurse.
Anglican Communion head slaps down rebel bishops
The Secretary General of the Anglican Communion, Dr Josiah Idowu-Fearon, has hit back at a suggestion by the chair of the conservative GAFCON group that to be part of the Anglican Communion is 'not determined simply by relationship with the Archbishop of Canterbury'.
Bishop who railed at 'middle class Church' sees boost to urban estates work
A project aimed at helping reverse the 'withdrawal' of the Church of England from its urban estates is to be launched in the Diocese of Blackburn.
What does Roy Moore's defeat say to evangelicals?
In the normal way of things, an election for a random US Senate seat would be of very little interest in the UK.
Father, Son and Holy Scripture: Do evangelicals read the Bible too much?
Discipleship involving deep engagement with the Scriptures, private and group study, the comparison of texts and a semi-academic reading, would have been not just odd but impossible for the vast majority of Christians in any period except the relatively modern.
World Evangelical Alliance under fire for too close links with Roman Catholic Church
The World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) is under pressure from member bodies in Catholic majority countries accusing it of abandoning its historic opposition to Roman Catholicism and theological liberalism.