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Scriptures, Hope and Mutual Welcome by Tom Wright

Tom Wright's farewell interview for the Today program as Bishop of Durham may be found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8948000/8948907.stm

David 

"more pliable, more clubbable, more 'Labour party at prayer', more tiresomely politically correct, more institutionalist types seem to be coming up the ranks"

Really, I think we just don't know. I would not describe Chis Edmondson,area bishop of Bolton since 2008 in such terms and I would have thought that Paul Butler, the new bishop of Southwell and Nottingham would meet with your approval. I am sure there are many more rising stars who have not yet caught my attention.

David

Great stuff from Tom Wright....hopefully even more to come from his writing and teaching .....but I am sad to see him finish his time as a bishop and wish he had been ABC in the lat 7 years....things could have been so much better handled and I am sure he would have been more decisive and less tolerant of years being wasted while false teaching entrenched itself..........he has been a brave bishop, unafraid of criticism and confident in the authority of scripture when so many others wobble (perhaps he didn't need to compromise to be promoted).  I wonder if we have seen the last of his sort and the future will see much more domesticated 'evangelical' bishops in the CofE.....I hope I am wrong but more pliable, more clubbable, more 'Labour party at prayer', more tiresomely politically correct, more institutionalist types seem to be coming up the ranks..........suppose that is part of the success of the indaba forever / inch at a time strategy we have suffered for so many decades and which Tom Wright has fought often....at personal cost, no doubt. Grateful for his service  - hope others follow his good example, despite the cost.

We have just published on Fulcrum, 'The Scriptures, The Hope and the Mutual Welcome', by Tom Wright, the Bishop of Durham (2003-2010). This was his farewell sermon preached at Durham Cathedral on Tuesday 13 July 2010, and copublished, with permission, with the Diocese of Durham site.

On 1 September 2010, he becomes Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrew's, Scotland.