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Archive: Personal Religion
God in Public -- The New Challenge of Our Times
Clearly we are facing quite a new moment. Whereas in the 1990s people were buzzing about Who Was Jesus, today the key question seems to be, how do we 'do God' in public?
By Nicholas T. Wright | April 23, 2008; 08:58 AM ET | Comments (75)
Beware Labelism
'Religion' should address 'labelism' -- especially in the run-up to an election.
By Nicholas T. Wright | March 26, 2008; 05:10 AM ET | Comments (16)
The Resurrection Revolution
For Christians, resurrection is a highly revolutionary doctrine. Death is the last weapon of the tyrant. The news that the living God is sovereign over death itself is therefore very bad news for tyrants
By Nicholas T. Wright | March 22, 2008; 10:29 AM ET | Comments (31)
New Tech, Old Issue
I bet people have asked this question about everything since they discovered pigeons could carry messages.
By Nicholas T. Wright | March 13, 2008; 06:18 AM ET | Comments (11)
Whispers of Hope from the Dead
All cultures, ancient as well as modern, have been more or less familiar with the fact that people we love who have died can and do appear to us.
By Nicholas T. Wright | October 10, 2007; 06:47 AM ET | Comments (68)
Human Behavior, By Any Other Name...
We could substitute the word 'atheism' for 'religion' in Hitchens' quote and it would still work.
By Nicholas T. Wright | September 28, 2007; 10:25 PM ET | Comments (53)
Big Question, Bigger Assumptions
We are never, repeat never, in a position where we can size up God and decide what such a being ought really to do.
By Nicholas T. Wright | September 5, 2007; 07:42 AM ET | Comments (57)
Neither is The Final Destination
Heaven is important but it's not the end of the world.
By Nicholas T. Wright | June 27, 2007; 09:53 AM ET | Comments (90)
Pray, Study and Keep Working
War sharpens some of the horrible things about the way the world currently is but doesn't change the basic structure of a good world in rebellion and longing for redemption.
By Nicholas T. Wright | May 30, 2007; 07:15 AM ET | Comments (32)
Love More, Pray More, Golf More
In human terms I have obviously 'peaked', since I'm in what is clearly my last job.
By Nicholas T. Wright | May 19, 2007; 07:40 AM ET | Comments (10)
Notes on Falwell From Afar
We are each called to be true to what we find in scripture and I have no reason to suppose he was not as obedient to that imperative as I struggle to be.
By Nicholas T. Wright | May 16, 2007; 12:37 PM ET | Comments (61)
Don't Limit Jesus to This World
Jesus was a social revolutionary in the same way that Mozart was brilliant at counterpoint.
By Nicholas T. Wright | May 9, 2007; 07:52 AM ET | Comments (49)
Forgiveness Means You Were Wrong
Forgiveness means that it did matter, that it was wrong, and that it won't be held against you.
By Nicholas T. Wright | April 25, 2007; 05:50 AM ET | Comments (16)
God With Us, Grieving
The creator God is with us in the middle of the horror, sharing and bearing the pain and the burden.
By Nicholas T. Wright | April 17, 2007; 11:01 AM ET | Comments (28)
Know Your Mind, Body and Spirit
A lot of modern medicine was conceived in a relentlessly secularist mindset, but I don't think I'm selling out to secularism by taking an Aspirin or having an injection.
By Nicholas T. Wright | April 11, 2007; 09:30 AM ET | Comments (19)
Different Kinds of Prayer
The Psalms are prayers that unite awe at God's transcendence and a sense that God wants to be intimately in touch with his human creatures.
By Nicholas T. Wright | February 2, 2007; 08:15 AM ET | Comments (27)
Atheists Must Deal With the 'Problem of Good'
Fervent Christian belief has been associated with neo-conservative political beliefs, making atheism increasingly an attractive option.
By Nicholas T. Wright | December 28, 2006; 11:10 AM ET | Comments (71)
Jesus Is Image of An Invisible God
Jesus went to his death in the belief that this was what Israel's God had promised to do, by himself, to take cosmic evil and human sin on himself and so deal with it once and for all.
By Nicholas T. Wright | December 26, 2006; 04:21 PM ET | Comments (856)
