Ask NT Wright Anything

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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. Produced by Premier Unbelievable and hosted by Mike Bird.

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Jan 27, 2025 · 35 min
Questions about Heaven, Hell and the Rapture?!
Tom Wright dives into heaven, the rapture, and the nature of hell through the lens of Christian eschatology in this thought-provoking episode. They address the dangers of sensationalism in interpreting scripture and emphasize the importance of viewing these topics within the broader narrative of God’s new creation. 💡 Does God send sinners to eternal torment? Where is heaven exactly? Can baptized Christians who fall away from faith still face hell? How can we be certain of our salvation? These crucial questions are explored, alongside key insights into dispensationalism, misunderstandings about the rapture, and the relational reality of heaven. ✨ The conversation also unpacks: The restrained New Testament view of hell as tragic loss, not eternal torment. Comfort from biblical texts like Romans and Isaiah for those struggling with faith or anxiety. The enduring connection between heaven and earth in biblical theology 👉 Whether you’re wrestling with questions about salvation, curious about the nature of hell, or seeking a deeper understanding of Christian eschatology, this episode offers clarity, hope, and encouragement. Got Questions for Tom? Go to: askntwright.com • Subscribe: https://pod.link/267142101 • Explore more: https://premierunbelievable.com • Join live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • Support the show: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 20, 2025 · 37 min
Denominational Differences: Anglicans, Catholics, Works, Faith and The Holy Spirit
Dr. Mike Bird and Tom NT Wright take us on a deeply personal journey through their denominational experiences in today's episode of the podcast. From Anglican roots to Catholic insights, they explore the rich tapestry of Christian traditions and reflect on how faith evolves across life’s seasons. 💡 Together, they tackle a listener's heartfelt dilemma: navigating faith within a family where religious backgrounds differ. Should you join the Catholic Church or embrace a Reformed tradition? Tom and Mike unpack this complex decision, emphasizing the role of conscience, community, and theological understanding in shaping one’s spiritual path. The discussion also dives into the transformative doctrine of justification, examining the interplay of faith, works, and the Holy Spirit in the believer's life. Unity among Christians and the ongoing sanctification process are central themes, offering fresh perspectives for anyone wrestling with denominational differences or seeking deeper theological insight. ✨ Highlights include: Tom Wright's reflections on growing up Anglican and its profound impact on his theology. Mike Bird’s vibrant denominational journey, from Baptist beginnings to his embrace of Anglicanism. A breakdown of Catholic and Protestant views on justification, faith, and works. The unifying power of the Holy Spirit in the global Church. 👉 Whether you’re exploring your own denominational identity, facing family faith tensions, or yearning for a better understanding of Christian unity, this episode is packed with wisdom to inspire and challenge you. 🎧 Tune in now, share with someone navigating their faith journey, and join the conversation! #AskNTWrightAnything #FaithAndFamily #DenominationalJourneys #HolySpirit #ChristianUnity #Justification #FaithAndWorks • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • Explore more shows, free eBooks & resources: https://premierunbelievable.com • Join live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • Online learning opportunities: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us worldwide: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jan 13, 2025 · 31 min
🎙️ Season 2 Premiere: Exploring the Historical Context of the Bible
In the highly anticipated Season 2 premiere of the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast, Dr. Michael Bird joins legendary theologian Tom Wright for an inspiring deep dive into the historical foundations of Christianity. Together, they explore, why historical accuracy matters in understanding the Bible, unpack the literary tools used in scripture and reflect on the resurrection’s profound impact on time and identity . 💡 The episode also tackles tough questions about skepticism surrounding the resurrection, exploring common theories and the historical expectations of a Messiah. Whether you’re grappling with doubts or seeking to deepen your faith, this is a conversation you don’t want to miss! 👉 Have a burning question for Tom? Submit it now at askntwright.com and it could be featured in an upcoming episode! 🎧 Tune in, share with a friend, and join the conversation! #askntwrightanything #FaithAndHistory #biblicaltruth #resurrection #timetravel • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 26, 2024 · 21 min
#237 Christmas special - your Qs about Tom‘s life and work (Classic)
Tom answers listener questions about his role as Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall Oxford, his work habits and love of classical music... plus a Christmas question or two. Originally Aired: 23 Dec 2021 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 11, 2024 · 45 min
#236 Icons, praying to saints & dividing over sexuality (Classic)
From the archives: Tom answers listener questions about whether shrines are pagan, whether infant baptism is biblical, and how we can live in unity despite theological differences around sexuality. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dec 5, 2024 · 42 min
#235 The New Testament in its World with special guest and co-author Mike Bird (Classic)
Today's episode features a special guest - renowned Australian Bible scholar, co-authored and friend of Tom's, Mike Bird. Together, they delve into their groundbreaking collaborative work, "The New Testament in its World: An introduction to the history, literature, and theology of the first Christians" which both combines and unpacks years of Tom's major study into this seminal volume. For more books written by Tom Wright and Mike Bird • Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies (2024) https://shorturl.at/cwzBP • The New Testament in its World (2019) https://shorturl.at/BGLOX This episode originally aired on 6 Nov 2019 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/courses • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 21, 2024 · 22 min
#234 Is the Bible anti-women? Does God hear the prayers of agnostics? (Classic)
Tom offers advice to a listener who is moving away from Christianity because she believes the Bible seems to treat women as second class citizens. Another is an agnostic who has been praying for the war in Ukraine. Will God hear my prayers if I’m not even sure I believe? Originally Aired: 25 August 2022 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 14, 2024 · 32 min
#233 Free Will and the Problem of Evil (Classic)
Tackling one of the biggest questions of all time, the problem of evil and suffering, in today's episode 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 some questions for Tom about living as Christians in today’s world. Originally Aired: Sept 2019 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Nov 7, 2024 · 32 min
#232 Making sense of Adam, Eve and the Genesis creation story (Classic)
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… First broadcast in 2019. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 31, 2024 · 20 min
#231 Mental health: Am I failing God by taking medication? (Classic)
Does taking anti-depressant medication mean I’m failing to trust God? I was told to read the Bible to cure my eating disorder - how do we educate the church? How do I reconcile the Biblical command ‘do not be anxious’ with chronic anxiety? Tom answers listener questions about mental health. Originally Aired: 19 May 2022 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 24, 2024 · 28 min
#230 I can’t shake my sinful addiction (Classic)
Tom answers personal question from listeners about how to develop spiritual disciplines, escaping the cycle of besetting sin, and how to respond to homeless people with substance addiction and mental health problems. Originally Aired: 13 May 2022 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 17, 2024 · 29 min
#229 Making sense of Old Testament violence (Classic)
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 2019. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 10, 2024 · 22 min
#228 Baptism: What happens? Should we baptise infants? Ask NT Wright Anything (Classic)
What happens at baptism? How does John's baptism of repentance differ from Christian baptism? And what does Tom think of infant vs believer's baptism? Justin asks the questions and NT Wright responds. Originally Aired: March 2022 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Oct 3, 2024 · 27 min
#227 Why don’t I hear from God any more? (Classic)
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 doesn’t hear from God the way she used to - is it because of disobedience? Robert asks how you can tell if you have misheard from God? Tom also gives an update on his health and work and reflects on how he hears from God. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Aug 8, 2024 · 28 min
#226 Why bother improving the world? Can Christians attain perfection? (Classic)
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 this life, as Wesley claimed? Tom Wright answers listeners questions on the ‘now-and-not-yet’ of new creation. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 11, 2024 · 34 min
#225 Will animals go to heaven? Are NDEs real? Is there 'free will' in heaven? (Classic)
In this episode, Tom dives into listener questions about heaven and the new creation. Discover whether free will still exists in heaven, what near-death experiences can reveal, and if we’ll be reunited with our loved ones and pets. Tune in for an enlightening discussion on the afterlife and beyond! This episode originally aired: 30 June 2020 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jul 4, 2024 · 34 min
#224 Is the world doomed? Global justice and climate change (Classic)
Tom answers 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. N.B, This show was recorded before the pandemic. This episode originally aired 21 May 2020 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 27, 2024 · 30 min
#223 Pastoral questions on porn, personal tragedy and coming back to faith (Classic)
Tom answers listener’s pastoral questions including a person 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 journey back to faith but unsure where to begin. • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 20, 2024 · 42 min
#222 What if I’m not really saved? (Classic)
Can We Lose Our Salvation? Join us this week as Tom addresses common doubts that crop up time and again from our listener's questions. Do you ever question if you can lose your salvation? Feel unworthy to be a disciple of Jesus? Wonder if you might think you're saved, but actually aren't, like those Jesus refers to in Matthew 7:21-23 saying, 'depart from me'? Today on Ask NT Wright Anything we're sharing insightful, biblical and what we hope will be some comforting responses, to help us all as we seek clarity in our spiritual journey. Originally aired: • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/courses • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Jun 13, 2024 · 42 min
#221 Big Questions for Tom from Children: why did God make mosquitos? why does this world suffer?! did God create hell? (Classic)
Tom answers children's questions on today's show and tackles some of the ways we talk to children about tricky things like suffering and hell (and mosquitos!) 🦟. Plus, we talk about parenting 🤝 and the role of discipling children and young people. Tom and Justin also shares a bit about his own parenting experiences and some of the questions the children in their lives are beginning to ask too! Originally Aired: 15 Nov 2020 • Subscribe to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast: https://pod.link/1441656192 • More shows, free eBook, newsletter, and sign up to ask Tom your questions: https://premierunbelievable.com • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/courses • Support us: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices