by Mark Woods | Nov 17, 2009 | Opinion
At the time this was written, it wasn’t quite clear who were the lucky winners of the latest EuroMillions lottery jackpot, which spans several European countries including Britain. There are two winning tickets apparently. At least one is an individual, and the...
by Mark Woods | Nov 2, 2009 | Opinion
The letter to Prime Minister Gordon Brown featured on the front page of The Baptist Times is significant not just because it is the first of its kind from BMS World Mission, but for two other reasons. First, its tone. Rather than presenting Brown with a list of...
by Mark Woods | Oct 8, 2009 | Opinion
It is hard to imagine a sadder story than that of Fiona Pilkington, who died with her daughter, Francecca, in a burning car on Oct. 23, 2007. They had suffered years of abuse from neighborhood roughs. Francecca had a mental age of only 4. Their cries for help, from...
by Mark Woods | Sep 29, 2009 | Opinion
The poor you always have with you, Jesus said. But the mark of a civilized society is that it will set a limit to that poverty. France’s Henri IV said that he would have no peasant in his kingdom too poor to have a chicken in his pot every Sunday. A modest aim...
by Mark Woods | Sep 2, 2009 | Opinion
The United States’ healthcare system is a mess, at least if you’re poor. That much is admitted even by Americans. Where they differ is on how much this actually matters. Not enough, many would say, to justify the expansion of public spending or the size of...
