Finding Yourself in the Modern World

The Prophet of the Accidental War

N. T. Wright, the influential New Testament scholar and erstwhile Archbishop of York, was born on December 1, 1948 in Morbeth, an ancient market town on the banks of the River Wansbeck in Northumberland, England.

Almost two centuries earlier, on April 23, 1776, in that same market town, two old friends met at a local inn. The reunion was sweet after thre…