by Mark Woods | Mar 22, 2019 | Opinion
Editor’s note: This article first appeared on May 17, 2007. Mark Woods was editor at The Baptist Times, the newspaper of the Baptist Union of Great Britain, at the time of publication. It is republished today, a few days before the anniversary of the British...
by Mark Woods | Oct 6, 2015 | Opinion
There’s always a trade-off between what we might want to achieve and what we can actually do. Former United Kingdom ambassador and career diplomat Christopher Meyer emphasized this point in his book, “Getting Our Way,” subtitled “500 Years of...
by Mark Woods | Dec 29, 2011 | Opinion
British Prime Minister David Cameron made all sorts of headlines recently with a speech in Oxford in which he unapologetically asserted the notion of Britain as a “Christian country.” It is saying something when this could be regarded as news. In America,...
by Mark Woods | Dec 6, 2011 | Opinion
There are no great expectations that the U.N.-led Durban Climate Change Conference currently being held in South Africa will produce any significant outcomes. Awareness of climate change has increased, but the will to act has not. We should note that churches around...
by Mark Woods | Nov 9, 2011 | Opinion
The resignation of Graeme Knowles as the dean of St. Paul’s Cathedral caps – if it does not yet complete – a remarkably tumultuous period in the cathedral’s history. It is really too soon to pronounce on exactly what has gone wrong and right, and who are...
