The Ask NT Write Anything Podcast

Hello and welcome to the podcast that brings you the Thornton Theology of NT Write Bible

Scholar and form of Bishop of Durham. I'm Justin Briley, Head of Theology and Apologetics

for Premier Unbelievable, the show is brought to you in partnership with Tom's UK publisher

SBCK and NT Write Online who publish his video teaching courses.

Well of course today's edition of the show is very special recorded with Tom just after

we heard the news of the death of Queen Elizabeth II. You'll hear his own memories of spending

time with the Queen and Duke of Edinburgh and how we can process national moments like these

as Christians. There are many more responses to this historic moment available from our

website including my conversation with Gavin Ashendon, a former chaplain to the Queen,

on whether the end of the second Elizabethan age marks the end of Christendom and also an article

by Ruth Jackson on grieving with hope. You can find those and more at premierunbelievable.com

and do sign up to our newsletter there if you want to be kept in form of all the great content

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Well I'm joined now by NT Write, the former Bishop of Durham and a noted historian and Bible

scholar and he's joining me well very kindly from your holiday house in the distant parts of

Scotland Tom. So thank you very much for making time to chat with me today and but obviously

all sort of getting used to this news that Magic Queen Elizabeth II has died.

Tell us a little bit about your recollection, Tom. Did you ever have opportunity to meet

the Queen, especially I suppose in your role as the Bishop of Durham?

Yes I did and before that as well I was a canon of Westminster for three years before I went to

Durham and there were various greatest basic occasions then for instance the funeral of Princess

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