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The weekly podcast that connects you to NT (Tom) Wright’s thought and theology by allowing you to ask the questions. Presented by Premier Unbelievable? in partnership with SPCK and NTWrightOnline. www.premierunbelievable.com

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#186 Has the resurrection b...

09.21.2023

From 2020: It’s Eastertide so Tom is answering questions on the resurrection, including one listener who believes that the evidence of the women at the empty tomb has been debunked by modern scholarship. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright ...

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09.21.2023 #186 Has the resurrection been debunked? (Replay) From 2020: It’s Eastertide so Tom is answering questions on the resurrection, including one listener who believes that the evidence of the women at the empty tomb has been debunked by modern scholarship. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright ...
09.14.2023 #185 Questions on Crucifixion and Atonement (Replay) From the archives: Just in time for Easter we bring you a show (recorded before lockdown) in which Tom answers listener questions on the crucifixion, the nature of atonement and forgiveness. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: ...
09.07.2023 #184 An Evening With NT Wright live in London (Replay) From the archives, from 2020: In a bonus podcast special we bring you ‘An Evening with NT Wright’, hosted by SPCK and recorded live at Westminster Chapel London with an audience Q&A. Tom speaks on ‘Jesus, Paul & the question ...
08.31.2023 #183 Pastoral questions on porn, personal tragedy and coming back to faith (Replay) From March 2020: Tom answers listener’s pastoral questions including a man racked by guilt over whether his wife’s miscarriages were a judgment on his porn addiction, a family wrestling with the death of a family member, and someone on a ...
08.24.2023 #182 Questions about marriage and divorce (Replay) From Feb 2020: Tom answers listener questions about marriage including: What will our married relationships look like in the new creation? What advice do you have for someone about to get married? What do you think about divorce? Can I ...
08.17.2023 #181 The charismatic gifts of the Spirit (Replay) From Jan 2020: Tom answers question on whether gifts of prophecy and tongues are for today, the roles of signs and wonders, and talks about his own experience of the Holy Spirit. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything ...
08.10.2023 #180 Satan and the powers of evil (Replay) From Jan 2020: Are we supposed to believe in a literal Satan? What do the New and Old Testament say about the devil? In what ways does Jesus counter the forces of evil in his ministry and at the cross? ...
08.03.2023 #179 Can I trust the Old Testament? (Replay) From Dec 2019: Tom answers questions about when the Book of Daniel was written, is the book of Job historical and does studying the Old Testament undermine faith? • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More ...
07.27.2023 #178 Bible Translations and Controversies (Replay) From Dec 2019: Listeners ask questions on which Bible translations are best and Tom’s own translation of scripture ‘The Bible For Everyone’. What makes a good translation, why doesn’t Tom capitalise ‘holy spirit’, and what does he make of Pope ...
07.20.2023 #177 Am I Unequally Yoked? (Replay) From Sept 2019: Am I unequally yoked to my wife? What’s the biblical view of singleness? Was Jesus at my mother’s deathbed? What’s the point of it all? Tom answers the personal, pastoral and puzzled questions of listeners. • Subscribe ...
07.13.2023 #176 Free will and Problem of Evil (Replay) From Sept 2019: An atheist listener asks a question about free will and the problem of evil. Will it be possible for there to be another ‘fall’ in the new creation? And the hosts of the Libertarian Christian Podcast have ...
07.06.2023 #175 Pastor losing faith writes in; personal Questions; Tom plays guitar! (replay) Replay from June 2019: In a special pastoral Q&A edition Tom responded to various questions on difficult family situations, unforgiveness and a church pastor who doesn’t know if he believes any more. Plus, Tom whips out the guitar again for ...
06.29.2023 #174 Do I have to agree with St Paul? (replay) From July 2020. Tom answered listener questions on the life of the Apostle Paul, whether he wrote all the letters attributed to him, and whether contemporary Christians need to agree with all the views he gives. • Subscribe to the ...
06.22.2023 #173 Will there be animals in heaven? (replay) From June 2020. Tom answered listener questions on heaven and new creation. Will free will still exist? Do near Death Experiences tell us anything about it? Will we be reunited with our loved ones… and even our pets? • ...
06.15.2023 #172 Is the World doomed? (replay) From May 2020. In another show recorded pre-lockdown, Tom answered questions from listeners on whether the world is getting better or worse, on poverty and economic justice, and what climate change activism means for the theology of new creation. • ...
05.25.2023 #171 Tom answers Personal Qs on favourite preachers, authors and his own faith (replay) From 2019. Listeners want to know about Tom - Who are his favourite authors? If he could have dinner with anyone from the 20th Century who would it be? Why is he an Anglican? Has he ever struggled with his ...
05.18.2023 #170 Tom on his life and faith, and the meaning of the cross First broadcast in 2017, NT Wright talks to Justin Brierley about his early life and how his faith developed over the years, before turning to the question of what the atonement means, as laid out in his book The Day ...
05.11.2023 #169 Broken Signposts and questions on forgiveness and salvation From 2020: Tom talks about his book "Broken Signposts" and answers listener questions around how God forgives, conversion and how you can be sure you’re saved. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free ...
05.04.2023 #168 Questions on the life of St Paul, justification and predestination From 2019: Tom Wright talks to Justin about his book Paul: A Biography and takes listener questions on ‘justification’, election and salvation and what three things he would ask Paul if he were alive today. • Subscribe to the Ask ...
04.27.2023 #167 Questions on Mission, Evangelism, Islam and other religions First broadcast in 2019: Tom Wright fields listener questions on evangelism in a post-Christian world, returning to a message of repentance, whether we can know that Jesus is the only way to God, and how to talk about Jesus with ...
04.20.2023 #166 Justin Brierley asks Tom Wright his own personal questions Justin Brierley is moving on from hosting the Ask NT Wright Anything show. Before the baton gets passed on to fresh hands, he sits down with Tom to ask him the questions he would like to hear answered, including: What ...
04.13.2023 #165 A pastor losing his faith writes in, plus more pastoral questions In a special pastoral Q&A edition Tom responds to various questions on difficult family situations, unforgiveness and a church pastor who doesn’t know if he believes any more. Plus a musical treat from Tom. An archive show first broadcast in ...
04.06.2023 #164 Easter questions on the resurrection of Jesus As Easter approaches Tom answers a variety of listener questions on the Biblical resurrection accounts, the nature of the resurrection body, why Jesus didn’t stay with us, and also shares his thoughts on popular psychology professor Jordan B Peterson. First ...
03.30.2023 #163 Theology of worship, church and unity Do you have to go to church to be a Christian? What should our theology of worship be? How do we know we are in the ‘correct’ denomination? Tom Wright answers these and more questions from listeners about Christian unity. ...
03.23.2023 #162 Questions on sexuality and LGBT In this replay podcast from 2019 Tom answered listener questions on how to have better conversations on sexuality in the church, co-habitation, whether the New Testament understanding of homosexuality was different to today and his thoughts on Transgender following a ...
03.16.2023 #161 Housebound prayers, computer programming, art and music - what counts as kingdom work? Tom answers practical questions about the role of those unable to be physically active - does their prayer and meditation make a difference in the kingdom? A computer programmer questions whether his work is a worthwhile activity in Kingdom terms? ...
03.09.2023 #160 Why bother improving the world? Can Christians attain perfection? Why bother with earth and not just create heaven? Why try to make the world a better place if God is going to fix it? Is the world getting better or worse because of Christianity? Can Christians achieve perfection in ...
03.02.2023 #159 What difference does prayer make? Tom shares his prayer habits Tom answers listener questions on prayer including: 'Is prayer just telling God what to do?' and 'What difference does prayer make if God has already decided what to do?'. Kelly is nervous about praying out loud before a meal in ...
02.23.2023 #158 Why don’t I hear from God any more? CORRECTED AUDIO UPLOADED! Tom and Justin are back with a fresh batch of questions from listeners who are having trouble hearing from God. Nicole asks why 'Ask and you shall receive' doesn't seem to work in practise? Shelagh says she ...
02.16.2023 #157 Making sense of Adam, Eve and the Genesis creation story Tom Wright joins Justin to answer listener questions on how to interpret the early chapters of Genesis, what he believes about the nature of Adam and Eve, whether suffering and death existed before the fall and much more… He also ...
02.09.2023 #156 Have you ever struggled with your own faith Tom? Listeners want to know about Tom - Who are his favourite authors? If he could have dinner with anyone from the 20th Century who would it be? Why is he an Anglican? Has he ever struggled with his own faith? ...
02.02.2023 #155 Making sense of Old Testament violence Tom responds to listener Qs on Andy Stanley ‘unhitching’ Christianity from the Old Testament, the historicity of the Exodus, and the way that Greg Boyd interprets violent portraits of God in ‘The Crucifixion Of The Warrior God’. First broadcast in ...
01.26.2023 #154 Tom answers Qs on universalism, hell and salvation In an extended edition of the show originally broadcast on the Unbelievable? podcast, Justin asks a variety of listener questions on dispensationalism, John’s gospel, inerrancy, salvation, hell, universalism and Tom’s favourite books, music and much more… First broadcast in 2016. ...
01.19.2023 #153 Is the Bible inerrant? Is ’Sola Scriptura’ correct? What about verses endorsing slavery? How should we treat the Bible? Inerrant? Infallible? Does it contain errors? Tom answers questions on the nature of the Bible as well as related issues such as whether the Reformers were right to concentrate solely on scripture rather than ...
01.12.2023 #152 - Can women lead in church? Why does 1 Timothy tell women to ’be silent’? Tom answers questions on what the New Testament says about the role of women in church leadership. Does 1 Tim 2:13-15 forbid women from preaching? What does he make of complementarian vs egalitarian theology? How does he treat passages such ...
01.05.2023 #151 NT Wright Q&A with Bishop Joseph D’Souza on global mission - Oxford Conference Session 3 Tom Wright and Joseph D'Souza host a Q&A at the Reimagining Global Mission conference in Oxford covering questions on the theology of mission and discipleship. NT Wright was keynote speaker at an Oxford conference on Reimagining Mission in the Global ...
12.29.2022 #150 NT Wright on the multi-ethnic mission of the church - Oxford Conference Session 2 In this second lecture from the Reimagining Global Mission conference in Oxford, Tom speaks on the multi-ethnic, multicultural, polychrome mission of the church. NT Wright was keynote speaker at an Oxford conference on Reimagining Mission in the Global South, hosted ...
12.22.2022 #149 Can we trust the Christmas story? Responding to Bart Ehrman Tom Wright talks to Justin about Christmas and the birth narratives, and answers listener questions on the reliability of the gospels, Bart Ehrman on textual transmission, the dating of the gospels, and whether The Ascension happened as described. Replay of ...
12.15.2022 #148 NT Wright on Reimagining Mission in the Global South - Oxford Conference Session 1 NT Wright was keynote speaker at an Oxford conference on Reimagining Mission in the Global South, hosted by Bishop Joseph D'Souza of the Good Shepherd Church network in India, in partnership with Premier. In this opening lecture from the conference ...
12.08.2022 #147 Catholics have questions Catholic listeners have sent in some questions for Tom, including: Will the elusive dream of Catholic and Anglican unity ever be possible? I'm reconsidering my conversion to Catholicism... should I take my 6 year old daughter out of the church? ...
12.01.2022 #146 Can a Christian vote for Biden? Can faith be disentangled from left vs right politics? Tom is joined by Texan Bible scholar Justin Bass as they respond to questions from US listeners about right wing politics and faith. Where does patriotism fit with Christian worship? What do I say to family members who say I ...
11.24.2022 #145 Should I use the word ’heaven’? Will we know everything in the new creation? A listener wants to know if the suggestion of Old Testament prophets being raised from the dead presents a problem for the uniqueness of Jesus' resurrection? Is 'heaven' the in-between-state before new creation? Will we know everything once we are ...
11.17.2022 #144 Why is John’s Gospel so different? What did Paul know about Jesus? Tom Wright and Justin Brierley are back with a fresh batch of listener questions on the gospels this week including: How do I reconcile John's portrayal of Jesus with the other gospels? Are the timings of the crucifixion accounts in ...
11.10.2022 #143 The bedrock facts of the resurrection - NT Wright & Justin Bass Justin Brierley and Tom Wright are joined by New Testament scholar Justin Bass, author of ‘The Bedrock of Christianity: The unalterable facts of Jesus’ death and resurrection’. They discuss why the appearances of Jesus and the rise of Christianity count ...
11.03.2022 #142 What did St Paul believe about justification, election and salvation? Tom Wright talks to Justin about his book Paul: A Biography and takes listener questions on ‘justification’, election and salvation and what three things he would ask Paul if he were alive today. From a show first broadcast in 2019. ...
10.27.2022 #141 How do I talk to Muslims about Christ? Is Jesus the only way? Tom answers questions on evangelism in a post-Christian world, returning to a message of repentance, whether we can know that Jesus is the only way to God, and how to talk about Jesus with a Muslim in a show first ...
10.20.2022 #140 Q&A on racial reconciliation and female leadership with Pastor Miles McPherson Pt 2 Tom speaks on the role of the church in racial reconcliation in the USA and why he believes the Bible affirms the leadership roles of both men and women. This is the second part of Tom's on-stage interview with Pastor ...
10.13.2022 #139 Q&A on New Creation & Salvation with Pastor Miles McPherson Pt 1 NT Wright was interviewed by Pastor Miles McPherson at Rock Church San Diego. They talk about Tom's work to redescribe the gospel in terms of new creation, and what that means for the concept of 'getting saved'. Recorded in 2019. ...
10.06.2022 #138 An evening with NT Wright at The Rock Church Recorded at The Rock Church, San Diego, Tom Wright challenges us to think like first-century Christians, to imagine Jesus and the early church within the history, culture, and religion of Second Temple Judaism and the Greco-Roman world. Recorded in Nov ...
09.29.2022 #137 Atheist asks: Was Jesus’ death just a ’bad weekend at human camp’? Tom Wright talks about his book The Day The Revolution Began and answers listener Qs on Penal Substitution, the Old Testament sacrificial system, Christ’s ‘descent to the dead’, and an atheist’s claim that Christ’s death was ‘just a bad weekend ...

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