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About Mark Woods
Rev Mark Woods is a Baptist minister and Managing Editor of Christian Today.
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'This Is My Story': Paul Beasley-Murray on a life in ministry
If there's a collective noun for British Baptists it would be something like 'an argument'.
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What do Christians really celebrate at Epiphany?
This Sunday churches in the Western tradition will be marking Epiphany, traditionally the end of the Christmas season.
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Anger: Why it's an underrated Christian virtue
Christian leaders raised their voices, unsurprisingly, to call for more civility, politeness and general niceness.
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Is this the greatest hymn of praise to Jesus ever written?
On this day in 1792 died Edward Perronet, whose hymn is sung all over the English-speaking world.
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Who were the Magi and why did they come to worship Jesus?
In the Western Christian tradition, they have been given names – Balthasar, king of Chaldea, Caspar, king of Tarshish, and Melchior, king of Nubia. But none of these are original.
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What has Isaiah's Immanuel prophecy got to do with the birth of Jesus?
What's gone before is a picture of muddle and confusion, fear, politics, war, destruction and hunger. We skip all that and go straight to the nice bit.
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'The Numinous Woman': How a Cornish poet caught the mystery of the Incarnation
One of the most intriguing of Christmas poems is not as well known as it should be.
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The lost message of Christmas: Why we need to read Matthew 1
One passage that's never, ever read at the carol service is Matthew 1: 1-17.
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'Lead us not into temptation': Should the wording of the Lord's Prayer be changed?
Pope Francis last year said it was wrong to imagine God could tempt people to do wrong
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Review: The Evangelical Alliance's 'Transformed' transgender resource
What to do with transgender people? It's one of those very modern issues that evangelical Christians face with bewilderment.
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The tragedy of murdered missionary John Allen Chau: Some questions
It's impossible to look at a photograph of John Allen Chau, the young American killed by tribespeople on North Sentinel Island, without sadness.
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Pastors in peril: Can power rewire their brains?
Powerful people stop being able to empathise with others because their brains actually change.
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What do the CofE's Statistics for Mission say to the Church?
It would take a quite extraordinary amount of optimism for anyone to feel actually cheerful about what's revealed in the Statistics.
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Did Britain refuse asylum to Asia Bibi? Some questions
'How on earth could we let ourselves we browbeaten by these fanatics?' was the cry.
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Why your church leader matters less than you think
All of them had the quality of caring more than others than they did about themselves, and of being personally nurtured and upbuilt by giving rather than receiving.
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Why the appointment of the next Archbishop of Canterbury may prove challenging
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In these dire times for the Church, Paul's attitude and example in 2 Timothy are inspirational
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Priests suspended after review into Church of England's abuse failings
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Persecuted Christian children remembered on Red Wednesday
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How the Bible unravels one of the strongest arguments for abortion
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Free speech is under serious threat in the UK - and Christians should be concerned
