The Ask NT Write Anything podcast.

Welcome to Ask NT Write Anything.

I'm Ruth Jackson.

And today we're going back to 2019, where Tom answered questions on his personal favourite preachers and authors.

Who from the 20th century would he want to have dinner with?

Has he ever struggled with his own faith?

And why is Tom an Anglican?

Let's join them now.

It's great to have you in the studio again Tom.

And today we've brought together a number of questions that came in around yourself.

So I know you're a very humble person. You don't like talking about yourself

all that much, but people do want to know about Tom Wright himself. So are you okay with that?

Sure, yes. Okay. Yes, yes. I have a friend who's writing a book on humility and we tease him that

it's going to be called humility and how I achieved it. Let me go actually to a question I was going to leave to the end, but actually I think I'll

ask at the beginning.

Jim in Davis, California says, are you planning to write your autobiography or memoirs in the future?

Well, my publishers have muttered to me that a theological autobiography might be fun because

I happen to have been, as it were, a guilty bystander in major shifts in the study of Jesus and Paul and various other things as well, and resurrection and new creation.

And so I found that on the odd occasions I mention how I came into all that in lectures and so on.

People are actually quite interested in that.

So it may be that that will happen sooner or later. I doubt if a real autobiographical memoir would work. The trouble is that

there's a huge temptation to settle old scores and that does not read well. Yes, yes. I suppose

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