Can Christians serve in the Military? Was the Church of England Founded on a Scandal? | N.T. Wright
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Can Christians serve in the Military? Was the Church of England Founded on a Scandal? | N.T. Wright

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 18, 202637 min
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  • Religion

Can a Christian serve in the military, knowing they may one day be required to take another person's life? And how should believers reconcile the call to peacemaking with the responsibility to protect the vulnerable? In this episode of Ask NT Wright Anything, Tom Wright and Mike Bird tackle Christian vocation and the ethics of warfare, drawing on Mike's experience in the Australian Army and Tom's reflections on Romans 13, just war and the difficult moral decisions faced by soldiers. Then, what is the Bible's most important image of new creation? Tom explores the...

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Hello and welcome to the Ask NTRite Anything podcast, the program where we try to answer your questions about Jesus, the Bible and the life of faith. I'm Mike Bird from Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia, and I'm joined by Tom Wright from Witch of Hall in Oxford. Tom, I've got to ask you a question. If you were going to be forcibly conscripted into His Majesty's services, because the

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times have become dire and they're just mandatorily bringing in clergy to serve as chaplains in His Majesty's defence services, would you prefer to serve in the Army, the Navy or the Air Force? No, I've never really had faces once.

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I remember my father saying very emphatically because he'd signed up with the army as a very young man at the beginning of the Second World War. And he said to me more than once, if I look back, if I could have chosen, I would have gone for the Navy.

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