Mark Woods

Israel detains senior World Vision employee, raids Jerusalem office
Mohammed El-Halabi was detained on June 15 at the Erez checkpoint on his way home from routine meetings and was held without access to legal counsel or family visits.

Pastor who won assault rifle in raffle could face misdemeanor charge
Rev Jeremy Lucas of The Episcopal Church's Christ Church parish in Lake Oswego, Oregon, deliberately set out to win the AR-15 rifle.

'Some good in Judah': How a sinful king is a sign of grace
When King Rehoboam succeeded his father Solomon as King of Israel, things immediately started to go wrong

The dark secret of a great hymn: 'All things bright and beautiful'
It's sometimes assumed to be an anti-evolution hymn, written in answer to Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species.

Rio 2016: Will this Olympic Games be the most unjust ever?
Concerns are mounting that the legacy for Rio might be one of increased poverty and crime, sports facilities that will prove to be white elephants, and shocking levels of debt.

Does the Bible say Christians shouldn't marry non-Christians?
For many Christians this isn't a theoretical question, but one of burning personal urgency.

Muslims flocked to churches on Sunday after Fr Jacques Hamel murder
Muslims in France and Italy attended Catholic masses on Sunday in a gesture of solidarity.

Gunman kills one, injures three in Austin, Texas shooting
"Active shooter incident downtown, multiple victims. Stay away from downtown," Austin police said in a message on Twitter.

Why we should think twice before singing 'Great is thy faithfulness'
The hymn has blessed millions of people since it first appeared in 1923. But is it really as biblically sound as we assume?

Stand by for earthquakes: July 29 is when the world ends
Here's what I want to say to the 5 million, and to all the evangelicals â because it's mainly evangelicals â who believe in this kind of thing.

South Sudan: Hundreds of young Christians forced to flee gun battle
The battle continued until late into the night, forcing them to remain in the church until morning.

Jairus' daughter and the sick woman: What links these two stories?
There are many layers in these stories and they are very rich in meaning.

Do all religions really want peace? Why Pope Francis was wrong
Telling the world that Islamist terror is not fundamentally a war between Islam and Christianity is a good and necessary thing to do.

Obama takes fight to Trump with barnstorming convention speech
In a speech that electrified the Democratic National Convention Obama urged Democrats to enable Clinton to finish the job he started with his election nearly eight years ago.

How God's gift of a horse helped a Christian woman through the hardest year of her life
"There comes a crisis point where everything changes. To recover, my father had to go into care. It was a fork in the road."

Hillary Clinton victory heralds a new day for women, says Tony Campolo
He prayed God would "Imbue our religious leaders with your love so that they will teach us how to transcend our differences and become one people."