Ask NT Wright Anything #88 Martin Bashir interviews NT Wright on Paul

2021-10-21T16:44:00+01:00

Tom Wright speaks to Martin Bashir about Paul and the church in Part 2 of an event by SPCK to mark the publication of Paul: A Biography in 2018.

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