by Mark Woods | Apr 13, 2010 | News
How should individuals react when their consciences come into conflict with the law of the land? There are some circumstances where the issue is pretty clear. We can categorically say – from a safe distance in time and space, at least – that the German churches should...
by Mark Woods | Apr 8, 2010 | Opinion
There’s an oft-told story about Nikolai Bukharin, the Communist propagandist. Addressing a huge rally in Kiev in 1930 on the subject of atheism, he spent an hour ridiculing Christianity. It was a religion for weaklings, he ranted, morally flawed, scientifically...
by Mark Woods | Mar 1, 2010 | Opinion
Evangelistic initiatives come and go. They are remembered and forgotten according to their impact not only on the community at large, but also on those who took part. Every time there is a new national movement in Britain, mistakes are made and lessons learned. Some...
by Mark Woods | Jan 31, 2010 | Opinion
The row over Conservative Party plans to give tax breaks to married couples has made headlines in a way that shows it has touched a few nerves. Conservative Party leader David Cameron believes that marriage is an institution that the state should support. Marriage...
by Mark Woods | Jan 19, 2010 | Opinion
Now the whole earth had but one language and few words. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and settled there. … Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the...
