Mark Woods

• Review: The Evangelical Alliance's 'Transformed' transgender resource

  What to do with transgender people? It's one of those very modern issues that evangelical Christians face with bewilderment.

• The tragedy of murdered missionary John Allen Chau: Some questions

  It's impossible to look at a photograph of John Allen Chau, the young American killed by tribespeople on North Sentinel Island, without sadness.

• Pastors in peril: Can power rewire their brains?

  Powerful people stop being able to empathise with others because their brains actually change.

• What do the CofE's Statistics for Mission say to the Church?

  It would take a quite extraordinary amount of optimism for anyone to feel actually cheerful about what's revealed in the Statistics.

• Did Britain refuse asylum to Asia Bibi? Some questions

  'How on earth could we let ourselves we browbeaten by these fanatics?' was the cry.

• Why your church leader matters less than you think

  All of them had the quality of caring more than others than they did about themselves, and of being personally nurtured and upbuilt by giving rather than receiving.

• Pakistan's blasphemy law and Asia Bibi: Why does religion go bad?

  All the world – at least all the right-thinking part of it – rejoices at the acquittal of Asia Bibi by Pakistan's Supreme Court.

• After Jair Bolsonaro's outrageous statements, why was he so popular with evangelicals?

  Brazil's Jair Bolsonaro swept to power in part because of the support of Brazil's powerful evangelical movement.

• What Eugene Peterson taught me about preaching

  'Everybody sounded the same in her lectures, all presented as neatly labeled specimens, butterflies on a mounting board on which a decade of dust had settled.'

• Witches are aiming to hex Brett Kavanaugh tomorrow. He'll be fine.

  But will it work? The shop hosted three hexes last year on President Trump, who seems to be doing just fine.

• Why the neglect of Britain's prisons needs to end: An ex-chaplain speaks out

  Sometimes an 'overdose of love' is the only thing that will turn people around.

• Ruth, The Musical: How an ancient story of women's courage is being told for a new generation

  The biblical story of Ruth has inspired poems and paintings for generations. Musicals, not so much.