by Mark Woods | Nov 2, 2011 | Opinion
The headline in a national newspaper declared that students in Great Britain were scared off by university fees reaching nearly $14,500. The story was that British universities were facing their biggest fall in applications for 30 years, with a 10 percent drop. Well,...
by Mark Woods | Oct 26, 2011 | Opinion
The news that the Angus Library in Great Britain has secured funding to help make Baptist history more widely known is very welcome. As a nation, Britain seems to be obsessed by history – partly, perhaps, because we are taught it in such a disconnected fashion at...
by Mark Woods | Oct 18, 2011 | Opinion
The Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams pulled no punches in his sermon to 15,000 Anglicans in a sports stadium in the capital of Zimbabwe on a recent Sunday. The archbishop is often accused of obscurity, usually unfairly, by people who cannot be bothered to...
by Mark Woods | Oct 4, 2011 | Opinion
The series of catastrophes that has already pummeled the world’s economies, and which is not over yet by any means, has focused the minds of our policy-makers in a wonderful way. We would all agree that this is overdue; most of us have very little expertise in...
by Mark Woods | Sep 20, 2011 | Opinion
What links: famine in Somalia, youth unemployment, and slavery in the British town of Leighton Buzzard? No, this is not part of the Round Britain Quiz. These are three issues that have been featured in the news recently. Indeed, they have no causal link that I know...
