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Well, hello there and welcome to a very special edition of the Ask-Enty Write Anything show and Tom's just sending himself live as well here and we're really glad that you've joined us here on Facebook.

Very first time we've tried something like this from the show. I'm all a bit of a

jitter because I'm wondering will the technology work as far as I know it all is so welcome along to this very special live event I'm Justin Briley theology and apologetics editor for Premier and host of the fortnightly podcast in which Tom Wright answers your questions.

And my co-host for today, helping me to put your questions to Tom, is my wife, the Reverend

Lucy Briley, who's the Minister of Woking United Reform Church here in Surrey, where we live.

Now we are broadcasting from our house and Tom joins us from lockdown at his home in Oxford,

and Tom is of course the former Bishop of Durham he's held numerous

academic positions most recently taking up the position of senior research fellow at

Whitcliffe Hall Oxford and he's written many many books the most recent of which is God and the pandemic his

response to what this present global crisis means for the world and the church so

Tom welcome along to the program. Thank you very much. It's very good to be with you and yeah I'm just getting a little bit used to

broadcasting as it were from my own study. It felt very strange to begin with but I've done it a few

times in the last few weeks. That's just one of the old things we've had to learn in lockdown I guess.

Absolutely. I'm going to ask you a bit more about your lockdown experience in a moment but before we do that I just

want to make sure that if you enjoy what you're going to be watching and hearing tonight

that you'll make sure that you're subscribed to our fortnightly podcast. I get to sit down with

Tom on a regular basis and ask him all kinds of interesting questions and you

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