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About Mark Woods
Rev Mark Woods is a Baptist minister and Managing Editor of Christian Today.
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The Royal wedding: How it preached the gospel to the world
And Christians have a particular reason to be deeply grateful that this wedding was what it was, where it was, and led by who it was.
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Joy @ Kempton Park: How a Surrey church is taking the gospel to the racetrack
'Be bold, stop faffing about and crack on for Jesus. That's my message to the global church.'
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Harry and Meghan's wedding won't be quite perfect – and that's good
Harry and Meghan's wedding reminds us that for most of us, perfection is unattainable.
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A story for our times: Jesus, friendship and a hole in the roof
One of the most moving healing stories in the Gospels is the healing of the paralysed man.
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How can the Southern Baptists solve their Paige Patterson problem?
Patterson has been under heavy fire since a recording emerged from 2000 where he appears to argue that abused women should stay with violent husbands and submit to them.
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The great evangelical silence: What the church should say about Gaza
There's a chilling disjunction between the glossy celebrations and political love-in on show yesterday as the US embassy in Jerusalem opened, and the carnage just a few miles away in Gaza.
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Indonesia's family suicide bombers represent spiritual forces of evil
The suicide bombers of our days are different. They don't die out of love, but out of hate.
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Extreme baptism: Does this Orthodox priest go too far?
This Orthodox baptism has caused no small amount of online outrage, with one Twitter user likening the priest's technique to 'child abuse'.
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TEC presiding bishop Michael Curry named as Royal wedding preacher
Michael Curry, primate of the US Episcopal Church (TEC), has been named as the preacher at the Royal wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle next week.
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Tim Farron pulls out of Christian conference saying he's 'deeply concerned and saddened' by publicity material
Former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has pulled out of speaking at a Christian conference citing concerns about promotional material he has seen.
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#ThyKingdomCome: Why should we do evangelism?
A far better motive for evangelism is to think, 'We have something that's worth sharing with the world. Let's pray that others will find it through us.'
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Trump and the Iran deal: Can chaos diplomacy succeed where reason failed?
The story is about the disruptive effect of someone who is completely unfettered by logic, who has no regard for consequences – and who has enormous power at his fingertips.
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Should pastors be political? How to change the world without losing your congregation
Evangelicalism has been tied, in the public mind, to right-wing causes for a good while. And yet it seems that the more headway these causes make, the more atheists they create.
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Should you be offended by the 'blasphemous' Catholic-themed Met Gala?
There's been a predictable Christian outcry against the theme of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute ball – the Met Gala – last night.
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Thousands of Southern Baptists call for Paige Patterson to go
The college headed by prominent Southern Baptist Paige Patterson is to hold a crisis meeting of trustees in the wake of a wave of negative publicity regarding comments he has made about women.
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