Mark Woods

• Answering atheist Steven Pinker on the Florida shooting: Where was the 'benevolent shepherd' God?

  'What was the benevolent shepherd doing in Florida while the teenager was massacring his classmates?'

• Baptist safeguarding review finds ministers may have abused

  The historic safeguarding case review conducted by the Baptist Union of Great Britain examined files of past and present ministers, dating back in some cases to the 1940s.

• After Florida, will American evangelicals embrace gun control?

  The same arguments over the same issues are rehearsed in the same words by the same people, and nothing changes.

• Praying through Lent: Just say it to God

  Prayer for some people is as easy as breathing. Others find it much harder – what's it all about? How should we do it, what should we say, what happens if it doesn't work – and what does 'work' mean, anyway?

• Shrove Tuesday: Evangelicals must endure the suffering of Lent

  Pancake Day isn't much of a thing, really. Egg, milk and flour, fried, flipped and served with sugar and lemon? Forgive me for not exactly salivating.

• John Piper and mental health: Is it someone's own fault if they're depressed?

  Someone doesn't have poor mental health because they're narcissistic, self-indulgent and unspiritual. They have it because – well, they're ill, they don't need a reason.

• Evolution and religion: What did Cheddar Man believe in?

  While science can tell us a surprising amount about what these Mesolithic hunter-gatherers looked like, there are vast gaps in our knowledge about how they lived.

• Does God cause illness? How Jesus handled a tough question

  Any kind of affliction is hard to bear; it's even harder when people say it's your own fault.

• Jeremiah's hope: How we can learn from the faith of Israel's great prophet

  Jeremiah's decision to buy his family land from his kinsman was more than just a commercial transaction.

• A sabbath rest from gadgets: Why it's good for the soul

  More than half (57 per cent) of US evangelical leaders say they take a sabbath from electronic communication devices.

• Is the Acts of the Apostles a film-maker's dream?

  According to Affirm Films, Paul, Apostle of Christ is the story of Luke, who risks his life to visit Paul, 'held captive in Nero's darkest, bleakest prison cell'.

• Evangelical Anglicans warn they might walk away if CofE departs from 'apostolic truth'

  An umbrella body for evangelicals in the Church of England has issued a stark warning of consequences for Church unity if it departs from 'apostolic truth' on sexual ethics.