Hello, my name's Tom Wright. I'm Professor of New Testament and early Christianity in the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and you're listening to Nomad Podcast.

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Welcome back to Nomad Podcast. My name is Tim Nash and I am not with Dave Ward. That's right.

I'm heading off to see Tom Wright, one of the most celebrated and influential evangelical scholars

of our generation. This should be Dave Ward's second month on Nomad podcast. And where is he?

He's in hospital.

That's right.

Our expert farrier has been kicked by a horse on the knee and is in A&E.

So he is going to miss the interview with Tom Wright.

Can you believe it?

I'd be absolutely gutted.

So I'm heading off to see Tom Wright to talk about care for creation, about his transition

back into academia and about his new book, Simply Jesus.

Then I'm going to go to the hospital where hopefully Dave has been patched up.

He will then listen to the interview and then we'll record some reflections.

So stay with us because we're about to chat with Tom Wright.

The last time we spoke, you were Bishop of Durham, and as you've just mentioned, you're now based at the University of St Andrews. How have you found that transition?

It's been wonderful. There are lots and lots of things I miss about Durham itself, particularly the people, to be honest.

It was a wonderful privilege to spend seven years working with the people of the north-east of England.

And I've got lots of very good memories. But apart from Easter, which I found very difficult this year, my father had just died, and normally at Easter I would be doing all the big stuff in the cathedral, and instead I was

in someone else's church just being an ordinary bloke in the congregation. That was very odd. But apart

from that, I have found really a wonderful confirmation of this kind of new move of vocation, that I haven't

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