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N.T. Wright

Tolstoy, Melville, Wright: Morons

Marvin Olasky   |  September 9, 2024

Evangelicals should thank Wright and be at peace with him.

The reaction to an N.T. Wright clip on X offers another glimpse into the current state of right-wing evangelical politics today.

John Fea   |  September 7, 2024

On Thursday, an X account called “Woke Preacher Clips” post a video of clip of N.T. Wright talking about American politics: The entire video is here, but it was the clip I posted above that lit a fire under the […]

The church does not affiliate with political parties. It holds government accountable, regardless of who is in office.

John Fea   |  August 17, 2024

I finally managed to get a copy of N.T. Wright and Michael Bird’s book Jesus and the Powers. I’m looking forward to digging into it. Christianity Today recently published a short interview with Wright. Here is a taste: In your […]

Uncut version: Jesus and the Powers (Review)

David Anthony Basham and Joseph K. Griffith II   |  July 2, 2024

This is the full-length, uncut version of the review we are running today at Current.

Jesus and the powers

John Fea   |  April 2, 2024

I am looking forward to reading N.T. Wright’s and Michael Bird’s new book Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies. This morning I got a small taste of the argument as […]

Happy Easter!

John Fea   |  March 31, 2024

More N.T. Wright:

N.T. Wright on the meaning of the cross

John Fea   |  March 29, 2024

N.T. Wright on Paul’s Epistle to the Romans and vocation

John Fea   |  October 20, 2023

Readers of this blog know that I am a big N.T. Wright fan. His book on the resurrection, The Resurrection of the Son of God, strengthened my Christian faith. Today I want to call your attention to Wright’s new book […]

Why don’t more theology students take history courses?

John Fea   |  April 18, 2023

At the school where I teach there are ample opportunities for students to shape their intellectual experience through a double “major” or a “minor” or two. Just the other day, for example, I was talking to one of my academic […]

N.T. Wright on Easter

John Fea   |  April 9, 2023

Happy Easter!

Raphael Warnock: theologian

John Fea   |  December 7, 2022

If you haven’t seen it yet, Gary Dorrien has published a fascinating piece at Commonweal. on re-elected Georgia Senator Raphael Warnock It provides several first-hand of accounts of his years at Union Theological Seminary (where Dorrien teaches) and his relationship […]

What if the Christian Right is wrong?

John Fea   |  November 23, 2022

Certainty is a hallmark of the Christian Right and fundamentalist thinking more broadly. There is little place for the mystery of God or words like “maybe” or “perhaps.” I am reminded of N.T. Wright’s words about such dogged commitments to […]

There is not a “hard distinction” between the gospel and the pursuit of social justice

John Fea   |  June 6, 2022

Mark Glanville of Regent College (Vancouver, B.C.) explains: The recent Guidepost Solutions report on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention revealed that August Boto, a key leader on the SBC Executive Committee, labeled the work of advocates on behalf of survivors […]

The latest musical number from N.T. Wright and Francis Collins

John Fea   |  December 24, 2021

N.T. Wright is one the world’s most prominent biblical scholars. Francis Collins is the former Director of the National Institutes of Health. Watch: See their first collaboration here:

What are you reading this summer?

John Fea   |  July 31, 2021

Check out Jennifer Harlan’s New York Times piece on the history of summer reading. Here is a taste: Something about these dog days, more than any other time of year, invites readers to bury themselves in a book — and […]