Ask NT Wright Anything

Presented by Justin Brierley

#15 A pastor losing his faith writes in. Tom responds to personal questions

7 Jun 2019
42:55

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,Tom whips out the guitar again for a Leonard Cohen classic. For...

#14 The Church, worship and unity

21 May 2019
27:54

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, and chats with host Justin about Christian unity....

#13 Christian sexual ethics, homosexuality and transgender

10 May 2019
31:44

In this edition of the podcast Tom answers 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 Transgend...

#12 Genesis, evolution, Adam and Eve and The Fall

24 Apr 2019
35:20

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 pulls out the guitar...

#11 Easter, the resurrection and thoughts on Jordan Peterson

9 Apr 2019
33:45

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...

#10 Tom answers Personal Qs on favourite preachers, authors and his own faith

27 Mar 2019
29:16

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? For prize draws, bonus content and to ask a...

#9 Old Testament violence, Andy Stanley and Greg Boyd

12 Mar 2019
31:15

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’. For prize draws, bonu...

#8 Resurrection, hell, universalism, dispensationalism (and much more)

26 Feb 2019
01:02:16

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...

#7 Bible infallibility, Sola Scriptura and slavery

12 Feb 2019
31:26

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 church tr...

#6 Female church leadership, complementarity and marriage

30 Jan 2019
30:40

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 as Ephesi...

#5 Qs on the life of St Paul, justification and predestination

16 Jan 2019
31:07

Tom Wright talks to Justin about his new 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.  For prize draws, bonus content and to ask a quest...

#4 Qs on Mission, Evangelism, Islam and other religions

1 Jan 2019
31:25

In this episode 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 a Muslim. And Tom gets his gui...

#3 Qs on Christmas, the historical Jesus, Bart Ehrman & The Ascension

11 Dec 2018
30:12

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. Fo...

#2 Qs on sacrifice, crucifixion and atonement

27 Nov 2018
31:32

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 at hu...

#1 Qs on Heaven, the Kingdom of God and the return of Christ

13 Nov 2018
32:13

In the first full episode of the show, Tom Wright answers listener questions on how to teach children about new creation, where our loved ones go after they die, and responds to a critique from William Lane Craig.  BONUS CONTENT:  To enter the draw f...