Mark Woods

• How can an Anglican priest deny the physical resurrection of Christ?

  'It's important for Christians to be set free from the idea that the resurrection was an extraordinary physical event, which restored to life Jesus' original earthly body.'

• Why the First Commandment is crucial for religious liberty

  Those officials see very clearly that if believers are allowed to proclaim the lordship of Christ, their ultimate loyalty cannot be to the state.

• A couple wins £115 million on EuroMillions: but what does the Bible say about money?

  What they have left, however, will surely be life-changing – and not necessarily in a good way.

• 'This Is My Story': Paul Beasley-Murray on a life in ministry

  If there's a collective noun for British Baptists it would be something like 'an argument'.

• What do Christians really celebrate at Epiphany?

  This Sunday churches in the Western tradition will be marking Epiphany, traditionally the end of the Christmas season.

• Anger: Why it's an underrated Christian virtue

  Christian leaders raised their voices, unsurprisingly, to call for more civility, politeness and general niceness.

• Is this the greatest hymn of praise to Jesus ever written?

  On this day in 1792 died Edward Perronet, whose hymn is sung all over the English-speaking world.

• Who were the Magi and why did they come to worship Jesus?

  In the Western Christian tradition, they have been given names – Balthasar, king of Chaldea, Caspar, king of Tarshish, and Melchior, king of Nubia. But none of these are original.

• 'The Numinous Woman': How a Cornish poet caught the mystery of the Incarnation

  One of the most intriguing of Christmas poems is not as well known as it should be.

• What has Isaiah's Immanuel prophecy got to do with the birth of Jesus?

  What's gone before is a picture of muddle and confusion, fear, politics, war, destruction and hunger. We skip all that and go straight to the nice bit.

• The lost message of Christmas: Why we need to read Matthew 1

  One passage that's never, ever read at the carol service is Matthew 1: 1-17.

• 'Lead us not into temptation': Should the wording of the Lord's Prayer be changed?

  Pope Francis last year said it was wrong to imagine God could tempt people to do wrong