Ask NT Wright Anything

When is Jesus going to return?

15 Jun 2025
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What does it mean to live faithfully in a politically divided world? How should Christians respond to immigration and power? And what do Paul’s views on time tell us about the return of Christ?Tom Wright and Mike Bird explore the tensions between fai...

Will the resurrection be for all, or just for believers? NT Wright Answers

8 Jun 2025
1992

What is the 'divine council' in the Bible? Who receives a 'resurrection body'? And how can Christians be sure of their salvation?In this episode of Ask NT Wright Anything, Tom Wright and Mike Bird tackle some of the most fascinating and personal ques...

Is abortion ever justified? Can Lucifer be forgiven? NT Wright answers your questions

1 Jun 2025
2087

Is abortion ever ethically justifiable? Could Lucifer ever be forgiven? And how do Romans 8 and Galatians 4 shape our understanding of grace, law, and inclusion? What an episode! This week on the Ask NT Wright Anything, Tom Wright and Mike Bird addre...

Suicide and Salvation: What does NT Wright say?

25 May 2025
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How should Christians think about suicide and heaven, baptism and christenings, and the biblical teaching of the Trinity? In this episode of Ask NT Wright Anything, Tom Wright unpacks your questions on some of the most sensitive and foundational que...

"I am a transgender man, can I get married to a woman?"

19 May 2025
2822

How should Christians think about transgender identity and faith? What does it mean to deconstruct and reconstruct belief in today’s world? And how do we understand Jesus’ prophecy about the end times?In this episode of Ask NT Wright Anything, Tom Wr...

Will God resurrect my cremated body?

11 May 2025
2057

Cremation, grace & Resurrection:. This week Tom tackles what does grace really mean in the Bible? Does cremation affect the Christian hope of resurrection? And how should we understand Jesus’ relationship to the Old Testament law? In this episod...

Jesus' Jewish identity, Paul's commands to women and Bonhoeffer's dilemma: Tom Wright answers

4 May 2025
1698

Tom Wright and Mike Bird delve into the Jewish identity of Jesus in this week's episode of the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast. They respond to a listener's question about Paul's instructions in 1 Corinthians 11 and reflect on the moral dilemmas faced...

Does Tom Wright consider belief in the bodily resurrection of Jesus essential to Christian faith?

27 Apr 2025
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What is church membership really for? Why does the bodily resurrection matter so much to Christian faith? And how should Christians respond to the suffering in Gaza? In this episode of Ask NT Wright Anything, Tom Wright and Mike Bird explore the the...

BONUS Subscriber only Easter Show: What does Easter mean for the mission of the Church today? Tom Wright and Mike Bird

21 Apr 2025
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A Tom Wright seminar with Mike Bird on what the Resurrection has to say to the Church and its mission with Tom Wright and Mike Bird

NT Wright on the Resurrection: History, Theology & Why It Still Matters with Tom Wright and Mike Bird

20 Apr 2025
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Welcome to a special Easter edition of Ask NT Wright Anything, where we dig into the historical and theological foundations of the resurrection of Jesus. New Testament scholar Mike Bird joins Tom Wright to raise some tough questions - like why, histo...

Sin, Sex, and Salvation? NT Wright on Contraception, the Cross, and the Church

13 Apr 2025
2851

Is contraception a theological issue? Can we trust the Gospels as historical documents? How should the church respond to political idolatry? And what really happened on the cross? In this episode of Ask NT Wright Anything, Tom Wright and Mike Bird ta...

God’s Love: Universal, Personal, or Both? NT Wright Answers

6 Apr 2025
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Does God love us personally or just humanity as a whole? How do we experience His love in a broken church? How do marriage and parental blessings fit into faith? Tom Wright and Mike Bird explore God’s love, the challenges of church community, and how...

Were Adam and Eve doomed to sin, or did their sins doom humanity? NT Wright and Mike Bird on questions of sin and universalism

30 Mar 2025
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Did Adam and Eve doom humanity? NT Wright and Mike Bird on questions of sin and human nature In this episode of Ask NT Wright Anything, Tom Wright and Mike Bird tackle the complexities of salvation, the meaning behind Revelation’s vivid imagery, the...

Between death and resurrection - where was Jesus? NT Wright explains

28 Mar 2025
1974

Did Jesus really descend into hell? What does ecumenism mean for Christian unity? Can non-Messianic Jews be saved? In this episode of Ask NT Wright Anything, Tom Wright and Mike Bird tackle these complex theological questions, exploring the early chu...

What happens when we die? NT Wright on the Afterlife and NDEs

23 Mar 2025
1770

Are near-death experiences real? Do they give us a glimpse of the afterlife, or should we approach them with caution? What does it mean to live faithfully as a Christian? And who really has the authority to forgive sin— the individual believer, the p...