{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Trinity Forum Conversations","title":"Waiting for Good News with N.T. Wright","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1322,"description":"Throughout Lent, we've been releasing weekly episodes focused on spiritual practices.\nIn the final episode of the series, this Holy Week we're considering the discipline of waiting: how we can prepare ourselves to receive good news. \nOur guide today is N.T. Wright, the Anglican Bishop and New Testament scholar. He describes how Jesus invited his hearers into a new way of understanding Israel’s ancient story of waiting, the cosmic significance of its sudden fulfillment, and its meaning for us in this in-between time of preparation to receive good news: \n\"The ultimate life after death is not a platonic disembodied immortality, but resurrection life in God‘s new creation. And that new world began when Jesus came out of the tomb on Easter morning. That’s the good news. Something happened then as a result of which the world is a different place. And we are summoned, not just to enjoy its benefits, but to take up our own vocations as new creation people, as spirit-filled and spirit-led Jesus followers, bringing his kingdom into reality in our world.\"\n\nWe hope that this conversation will help you as you wait and prepare to receive this good news.\nThe podcast is drawn from an evening conversation we hosted back in 2016. You can find our shownotes and much more at ttf.org. \nThank you for journeying with us through Lent.\n \nLearn more about N.T. Wright.\n \nWatch The Good News and the Good Life, with N.T. Wright and Richard Hayes.\n \nAuthors and books mentioned in the conversation:\nWho is this Man? by John Ortberg\n \nRelated Trinity Forum Readings:\nDevotions by John Donne and paraphrased by Philip Yancey\nThe Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine of Hippo, Introduced by James K.A. Smith\nPilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard\nPilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan\nGod’s Grandeur: The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins\nA Spiritual Pilgrimage by Malcolm Muggeridge\n \nRelated Conversations:\nLiturgy of the Ordinary in Extraordinary Times with Tish Harrison Warren\nCaring for Words in a...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/LC6b2lFM_r_3xEJCzvD8r7UblHhgtgss5nBJ4X1mqD4/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzE3OTk3LzE2MTM1/MzUwNjEtYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}