By all means write new songs. Each generation must do that. But to neglect the church's original hymnbook is, to put it… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
It's very easy for a church just to slide along from week to week, taking it for granted that we do our… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
There's all the difference in the world between humbly saying "I want to find more light from Scripture than we have yet… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I grew up in a church-going family, a very sort of ordinary, middle-of-the-road Anglican family where nobody really talked about personal Christian… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
God will himself one day hold all humans, and all human governments, to account, but the church has the responsibility in the… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Looking back to the earlier centuries of the church, most of the great teachers were also bishops and vice versa. It's only… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Often the Jesus-focused churches are leaning towards a 'social gospel' interpretation of the kingdom, and the 'Paul' churches are talking about being… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate in that I've grown up in a worshipping tradition which is quite rich musically (and music is very important to… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Paul's vision, though, is starting small, with actual communities in which reconciliation and justice has to be practiced - like the rich/poor… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I am also very excited by the way in which we can see Paul wrestling not only with his Jewish world and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Rest you well, beloved Jesus, Caesar’s Lord and Israel’s King, In the brooding of the Spirit, in the darkness of the spring — N. T. Wright Copy Share
Art is love creating the new world and justice is love rolling up its sleeves to heal the old one. — N. T. Wright Copy Share
It is faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And it is faith that… — N. T. Wright Copy Share
Scripture is, at its heart, the great story that we sing in order not just to learn it with our heads but to become… — N. T. Wright Copy Share
Most of the things that really matter require faith. 'How do I know that my wife loves me?' 'How do I know that Mozart's… — N. T. Wright Copy Share
Justice never means "treating everybody the same way", but "treating people appropriately". — N. T. Wright Copy Share
People often get upset when you teach them what is in the Bible rather than what they presume is in the Bible. — N. T. Wright Copy Share
The word "salvation" denotes rescue. Rescue? What from? Well, of course, ultimately death. And since it is sin that colludes with the forces of… — N. T. Wright Copy Share
We cannot worship the suffering God today and ignore him tomorrow. We cannot eat and drink the body and blood of the passionate and… — N. T. Wright Copy Share
Part of Christian belief is to find out what's true about Jesus and let that challenge our culture. — N. T. Wright Copy Share
If you ask people in England where does Tom Wright sit on the theological spectrum, they say, "Well he's an evangelical of course," as… — N. T. Wright Copy Share
True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark. — N. T. Wright Copy Share
Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a… — N. T. Wright Copy Share
All our language about the future ... is like a set of signposts pointing into a bright mist ... the New Testament image of… — N. T. Wright Copy Share
