by Mark Woods | Jul 25, 2011 | Opinion
Things are moving so fast in the world of News Corp. and the phone-hacking scandal in Great Britain that what we write today will be out of date tomorrow. But now Rebekah Brooks has been arrested, two senior Met policemen have resigned, the British prime minister is...
by Mark Woods | Jul 20, 2011 | Opinion
“The poor you will always have with you,” Jesus said. For most of Christian history, that has been regarded either as a statement of melancholy but unalterable truth or as a declaration of divine intent: “The rich man in his castle, the poor man at...
by Mark Woods | Jul 12, 2011 | Opinion
Readers of The Baptist Times won’t find many editors more indifferent to sport than this one. The new London Baptist Association Olympics Games coordinator, David Pile, has a mountain to climb if he’s to get me interested. Golf is a waste of a good walk,...
by Mark Woods | Jun 23, 2011 | Opinion
It’s true if we’re honest: Baptists can get a bit complacent over the fact that we have not suffered the precipitous decline of other denominations. Perhaps, our thinking goes, it’s because there’s something in the nature of our structures that...
by Mark Woods | Jun 15, 2011 | Opinion
A recent front-page story in The Baptist Times spoke of a project in Birmingham, England, that seeks, in the words of Chelmsley Wood’s minister, Neil Roberts, to “grow spirituality within the community, giving people opportunities and skills to seek out...
