by Mark Woods | Nov 8, 2010 | Opinion
The tragedy in Baghdad, resulting in the loss of so many innocent lives, has focused attention once more on the plight of the Christian population of Iraq in particular, and of the Middle East in general. Once unchallenged as an integral historical part of the...
by Mark Woods | Oct 18, 2010 | Opinion
Fairness is one thing, equality quite another. Prime Minister David Cameron has talked about fairness, describing it as “giving people what they deserve – and what people deserve depends on how they behave.” This cannot, of course, be a complete definition...
by Mark Woods | Sep 24, 2010 | Opinion
We have grown so used to tales of gloom and doom about the future of the church that when someone brings us some good news the impulse is to disbelieve it. Surely, we think, they can’t all be wrong, all those learned scholars who predicted the imminent...
by Mark Woods | Sep 14, 2010 | Opinion
The forthcoming visit of the Pope to the United Kingdom seems to be generating far less interest than organizers had hoped, which is a pity. We do not have to be Catholics to recognize that with all his human fallibilities – though the word is rather provocative, come...
by Mark Woods | Aug 17, 2010 | Opinion
The numbers being quoted about the Pakistan floods are mind-boggling. They’re inflating so rapidly that there is no point in repeating them here; they will be out of date by the time these words are read. So many millions homeless, so many evacuated, so many...
