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About Mark Woods
Rev Mark Woods is a Baptist minister and Managing Editor of Christian Today.
Mark Woods
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Pakistan's blasphemy law and Asia Bibi: Why does religion go bad?
All the world – at least all the right-thinking part of it – rejoices at the acquittal of Asia Bibi by Pakistan's Supreme Court.
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After Jair Bolsonaro's outrageous statements, why was he so popular with evangelicals?
Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro swept to power in part because of the support of Brazil's powerful evangelical movement.
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What Eugene Peterson taught me about preaching
'Everybody sounded the same in her lectures, all presented as neatly labeled specimens, butterflies on a mounting board on which a decade of dust had settled.'
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Witches are aiming to hex Brett Kavanaugh tomorrow. He'll be fine.
But will it work? The shop hosted three hexes last year on President Trump, who seems to be doing just fine.
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Why the neglect of Britain's prisons needs to end: An ex-chaplain speaks out
Sometimes an 'overdose of love' is the only thing that will turn people around.
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Ruth, The Musical: How an ancient story of women's courage is being told for a new generation
The biblical story of Ruth has inspired poems and paintings for generations. Musicals, not so much.
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Debt Saviours: Why for Christians Against Poverty, clients are never just a number
Bradford-based Christians Against Poverty has grown from one man's vision 22 years ago to be a nationally-recognised force for good.
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What a 19th-century moral failure tells us about the future of missions
The Bristol Baptist College building in the mid-80s, when I trained for ministry there, had a rather remarkable feature.
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In praise of peace and quiet: why lively churches aren't for everyone
While attendance is patchy in other parts of the church, there's one indisputable growth area.
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Patriarchs in conflict: Could Ukraine's divisions cause a schism in the Orthodox Church?
In the context of a shooting war that has left thousands dead and brought lasting poverty and instability in its wake, the struggle for control of Ukraine's churches might seem trivial. But it's being bitterly fought, and is inseparable from the wider conflict.
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What does the British Social Attitudes survey really say about Anglican decline?
The number of Brits who self-identify as Anglicans has halved in the last 15 years, and our national church now claims the allegiance of only 14 per cent of us.
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Lucy Berry: Making things happen, one poem at a time
She's a subtle observer of life and Christian life, able in a few lines of verse to reveal the pressure point where faith meets hypocrisy, or to nail a profound truth with a single striking image.
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Archbishop Welby is right: Social justice is a thoroughly Christian thing
There's a deliciously synchronicitous irony about the release of two statements on social justice, both authored or part-authored by Christians, on either side of the Atlantic, within a day of each other.
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In an age of social media, why St Birinus just might be a saint for our times
'A good and just man, who in carrying out his duties was guided rather by an inborn love of virtue than by what he had read in books.'
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Telling a better story: How India's Christians are fighting for dignity for Dalits
The caste system, identified most obviously with Hinduism but present in Islam and Christianity as well, is at the root of some of the deepest and most pernicious forms of discrimination.
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