by Mark Woods | Jun 7, 2011 | Opinion
The capture of Ratko Mladic begins at least to bring to a close some of the unfinished business remaining from the terrible Bosnian War. Forty years after the end of World War II, which saw the Balkans drenched in blood, the old demons had risen again. Tito’s...
by Mark Woods | May 31, 2011 | Opinion
Not many readers of The Baptist Times will have lost any sleep over the predictions of the 89-year-old U.S. radio show host Harold Camping that the elect would be snatched up to heaven on May 21, and that everyone else would be in deep trouble. It cannot be denied...
by Mark Woods | May 25, 2011 | Opinion
There are plenty of holiday tours that will take you to the Seven Churches in Revelation. The sites are easily identifiable, and some of them at least retain an air of mysterious sanctity. Go to Ephesus, for instance, and you are in deep time, at least until another...
by Mark Woods | Apr 20, 2011 | Opinion
Research claiming to explain the relationship between low rates of churchgoing and longer life spans makes fascinating reading. It can never be the whole story, as there is always the United States exception – high churchgoing, long lives – and there are other ways of...
by Mark Woods | Apr 5, 2011 | Opinion
Those who attended the demonstrations in London on March 26 must have felt they were too large to ignore. Perhaps as many as 400,000 people marched against the British government’s cuts, and this before they have really begun to bite anything like as hard as...
