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Ask NT Wright Anything

#131 Help! I’m on the brink of atheism... Deconstruction and suffering

Ask NT Wright Anything

Premier Unbelievable

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity, History

4.82.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Tom offers advice to two people struggling with their faith. One is having doubts during a period of deconstruction, the other can't get past the problem of suffering. • 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-and-events • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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0:00.0

Welcome back, I'm Justin Briley and this is the show from Premier Unbelieveable bringing

0:21.8

you a regular dose of Tom Wright's thinking and theology, where you get to ask the questions.

0:27.2

And today, Tom offers advice to two people struggling with their faith.

0:31.4

One is having doubts during a period of deconstruction and the other can't get past the problem

0:36.2

of suffering.

0:37.2

Well, before we jump in, I just had to read this review of the podcast that got left recently.

0:42.6

It begins rather ominously, please be warned, but continues.

0:47.4

Be careful who you listen to this podcast with.

0:50.2

I started listening to this podcast with a friend and fell deeply in love with Tom,

0:54.2

Justin, and this friend.

0:56.5

Soon that friend and I got married and took our honeymoon in the UK just to stop by a conference

1:01.7

to see Tom, and we hope to see you just in one day soon.

1:05.1

And to thank him, just be careful is all I'm saying.

1:08.0

Just to all of you, we can't get enough and have some great theology and a great marriage

1:12.1

to thank you both for much love, Anna and Renelle from Canada.

1:16.0

Well, there you go, ask NT Wright to smash making now.

1:20.0

So lovely to hear that story, Anna and Renelle, thank you for leaving a review via Apple Podcast

1:24.7

and you can do so too wherever you're listening to the podcast from.

1:27.8

It helps others to discover the show.

1:30.7

By the way, if you haven't already discovered them, we have a bunch of other great podcasts

1:34.6

from the premier unbelievable staple, our mother ship, as it were, is the unbelievable show

1:39.4

where I bring Christians and non-Christians together for weekly dialogue and debate.

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