Mark Woods

• Church of Scotland apologises for discrimination against gay people, moves toward accepting gay marriage

  The General Assembly of the Church of Scotland has approved an apology to gay people for the history of discrimination they have faced in the Church.

• Billy Graham chaplains respond to Manchester bombing

  Among the Christian responders to Monday's Manchester bombing are trained chaplains from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

• What's really wrong with what Katie Hopkins said about Manchester

  Katie Hopkins is a TV personality and newspaper columnist of a kind more common in the States than in Britain.

• The one thing we need to pray for after Manchester

  As things stand, it appears to have been a suicide bombing. Someone thought so little of his own life and the lives of his victims that he saw them as disposable.

• Children among 22 dead in Manchester Arena suicide attack

  Greater Manchester Police said the lone male attacker, who died in the blast, was carrying an improvised explosive device which he detonated.

• 500 years of Reformation: Luther's home town launches anniversary celebrations

  The ancient city of Wittenberg in Germany's Saxony-Anhalt, home of Martin Luther, hosted the launch of the official celebrations marking 500 years since the Reformation at the weekend.

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  How Martin Luther changed the world: 500 years of Protestantism

  Luther came to a different understanding altogether: it wasn't the Church that dispensed forgiveness at all. Salvation was by faith alone. It was personal, between the believer and God.

• Murdered missionary's widow felt 'empty' after his death

  The widow of a German missionary murdered in Turkey by Islamist extremists has described feeling 'empty' after his death.

• 'I have failed,' says new Bishop at Lambeth – but I am a loved child of God

  Good news means not just the news that makes you smile but the Good News, the news that transforms lives and turns the world upside down.

• Why did Jesus really ask the Samaritan woman for a drink?

  One of the great 'meeting Jesus' stories of the New Testament is in John 4, where he encounters the woman at the well.

• What's wrong with slavery, anyway? Why reading the Bible sometimes isn't enough

  The Catholic Church regards the Bible as one source of revelation rather than the only one, which tends to be the Protestant view – and in evangelical discourse, it is very definitely the assumption.

• Olive trees are a sign of hope as rebuilding starts in devastated Nineveh towns

  Ceremonies in three Christian towns in Iraq's devastated Nineveh Plain on Monday marked the start of work to rebuild up to 13,000 homes damaged or destroyed by fighting.