by Mark Woods | May 14, 2009 | Opinion
A fairly small minority of Baptists actually attend the annual Baptist Assembly, the joint gathering of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and BMS World Mission. This year’s event was held May 1-4 in Bournemouth. While many if not most churches are represented,...
by Mark Woods | Mar 17, 2009 | Opinion
Sunday marked the bicentenary of the abolition of the slave trade in the United Kingdom. What is surprising about the observance is the heat the issue raises, even so long after the event. White British people had perhaps assumed that they were entitled to a degree of...
by Mark Woods | Mar 12, 2009 | Opinion
News that even in these straitened times international donors have responded so generously to the needs of Gaza is very welcome. Not just the ravages of the recent war (if so one-sided a conflict can be given that name) but years of economic decline need to be put...
by Mark Woods | Mar 1, 2009 | Opinion
The strong support for a role for religion in UK public life shown in a recent BBC poll should in some ways at least come as no surprise. The sort of aggressive atheism promoted by figures prominent in culture and intellectual life is very much a minority sport,...
by Mark Woods | Jan 26, 2009 | Opinion
It is not at all surprising that as The Baptist Times goes to press, the eyes of the world are fixed on Washington. It would be churlish – and foolish – to wish to deny Barack Obama his triumph, or to refuse to recognise the validity of the wave of emotion...
