by Mark Woods | Jan 4, 2010 | Opinion
On Christmas Eve, we marked the 95th anniversary of an event that has passed into national legend: the Christmas truce of 1914. In a few places along the Western Front, a temporary peace broke out during World War I. British and German soldiers swapped cigarettes and...
by Mark Woods | Dec 30, 2009 | Opinion
The latest British Social Attitudes Survey is interesting, though perhaps not quite as informative as its compilers believe. Religious faith, they claim, has declined sharply in Britain over the last two decades. Now only 50 percent of people describe themselves as...
by Mark Woods | Dec 15, 2009 | Opinion
Democracy, Sir Winston Churchill is said to have remarked, is the worst form of government, except for all the others. The American statesman Benjamin Franklin is often wrongly credited with the saying, “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have...
by Mark Woods | Dec 3, 2009 | Opinion
It will come as a surprise to legislators in the United Kingdom to realize that protections afforded to India’s Dalit people, formerly known as “untouchables,” are not applicable in the U.K. Discrimination on the grounds of the caste system, which is...
by Mark Woods | Nov 26, 2009 | Opinion
The United Kingdom’s first Interfaith Week wrapped up on Nov. 21. While it is too early to describe it as a custom more honored in the breach than in the observance, it’s unlikely to draw a warmly enthusiastic response from many Baptist churches....
