by Mark Woods | Aug 18, 2009 | Opinion
Philip Sampson, author of Jubilee Center’s report “Sustaining Democracy,” argues that secularism has become religious, arrogating to itself the privilege of judging what are acceptable beliefs and seeking to marginalize the views and values of...
by Mark Woods | Jul 30, 2009 | Opinion
To hear some Christians talk, it would appear the church in contemporary Britain is under attack from every side. If that is so, why the surprise? Christianity began with a man under fire. So did the Baptist cause. Four hundred years ago the early British Baptists...
by Mark Woods | Jul 1, 2009 | Opinion
Encounters between Christianity and Islam are increasingly common and complex, as members of both faiths increasingly live side by side. When any faiths have to occupy the same geographical space, there is bound to be tension. For Christians and Muslims, the nature...
by Mark Woods | Jun 18, 2009 | Opinion
“For evil to triumph, it is only necessary that good men do nothing,” said the famous 18th-century politician Edmund Burke. That is the tradition, anyway; in fact exhaustive searches of his works have failed to turn up that exact expression. But it has...
by Mark Woods | Jun 10, 2009 | Opinion
A recent front-page story in The Baptist Times is, though we say it ourselves, exceptionally interesting. Most Christians in the United Kingdom – 65 percent – think attendance in their own churches will rise over the next 20 years, either dramatically or somewhat....
