Wright Is Usually Right When He Writes

...or speaks, as the case may be. Have a listen and see what you think. Then pop over here to read Peter Enns writing about the same thing in more depth (and perhaps a touch more controversially -- Oh Peter, when will you learn?). If you have even a passing interest in the Bible these will be well worth your time.

By the way, one commenter under a Tom Wright YouTube clip warns that reading the Bishop's work isn't safe. To this I say: Safe? Who said anything about safe? Of course it isn't safe. But it's good. How much more should this apply to our reading of Scripture, and yet how often do we settle for a safe reading of the text?

But that's a whole other blog post!

The Nature of Myth

A while back I did a series on Peter Enns's Inspiration and Incarnation (a series now available in my new book at mark-down prices), which looked at issues like the historicity of Genesis, the nature of myth etc and so on. If you want to hear N.T. Wright sum up the thrust of my own series better than I ever could, hop over to this post at the Science & the Sacred blog.