Breaking bread. The Lord’s Supper. Holy Eucharist. The body and blood. The Mass. Communion. Every Christian tradition has some kind of relationship to this special act that Jesus commanded us to observe. Why did Jesus institute the practice, and what exactly happens when we eat and drink the elements referred to as Jesus’s body and blood? Prof. Wright explores this most central of traditions as a means of sharing in Jesus’s death and expressing our unity with God’s purposes.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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Fire, in the Bible, is an element of paradoxes. Fire burns up, but also purifies. It judges, but also refines. The Bible uses the connection between God and fire not as a simple sign of anger, but as an appropriate warning that because God loves creation and people, God wants the very best for both. Prof. Wright contends that this requires a purging of everything less than the very best. In the end, all will encounter God’s fire. But this won’t be a simple case of God casting off everything and starting from scratch. That which desecrates God’s creation will be destroyed, but that which honors God’s creation, rather than being destroyed by the fire, will be purified, like precious metal, to shine out as more truly that which it was created to be.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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Anyone who has been a Christian for any amount of time will recognize an apparent mismatch between their beliefs about God’s goodness and their experience of the world’s evil. Fortunately, the Bible fully testifies to this dissonant reality, even offering a model for how to faithfully hold this paradox together. It’s called lament, and it’s a vital, but often underappreciated component of Christian life.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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For the final episode in our series “Thinking Through Salvation,” we revisit our opening assumptions about the link between salvation and common conceptions of heaven. If our standard idea of an otherworldly, disembodied heaven isn’t the biblical picture, is there anything wrong with hoping for something of that sort? What might we be missing out on by concentrating on that picture?To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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How, in the span of a generation, did the cross go from an obvious sign of failure, punishment, and brutality to one of victory, glory, and love? In this video, Prof. Wright explores the many meanings of the cross as history’s definitive turning point and a guiding symbol for millions of people around the world.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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Most Christians recognize prayer as a vital part of the spiritual life and desire to know not only how to pray effectively but also what our prayers actually accomplish. As for how, the Bible, somewhat unhelpfully, answers, “Constantly!” To really understand that, we’ll need to rethink what the mystery of prayer really means.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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This episode rounds out the basic questions of salvation by asking who gets saved, when that happens, and why salvation occurs and is necessary. Most Christians probably have ready answers to these questions, but Prof. Wright unpacks the deep resonances behind each of these, unfurling a robust vision of salvation for this present life.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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The Bible highlights imagery of reproductive vegetation throughout its narrative. Not only this, but it builds on this imagery to speak of God’s promises of abundance. In this video, Prof. N.T. Wright unpacks the uses of seed language in the Bible, which is often downplayed in English translations, in order to draw a throughline of God’s purposes from creation to new creation. God has put the principle of ongoing life into the world, in order to work in the world, through the world.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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“Church” can refer to the universal body of believers, individual communities, and the buildings they gather in for worship. So how should we think about the point of church, and whether or not it’s necessary, especially in a post-pandemic world? According to Prof. N.T. Wright, the being there is the point. Church is less about what we receive from going than it is about how the church benefits from our participation.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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In this episode, Prof. N.T. Wright explores the what, where, and how of salvation. Salvation is first and foremost God’s rescue plan for creation, accomplished through Jesus’s activity of embodying the Messiah vocation.To support this ministry financially, visit: https://www.lightsource.com/donate/1749/29

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