The C.S. Lewis of Our Time

His official title is "The Right Reverend Father in God Nicholas Thomas Wright, by Divine Providence Lord Bishop of Durham." Only the Archbishop of York, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Bishop of London outrank him. He sits in the United Kingdom's House of Lords. He is the one responsible for escorting the sovereign at coronation. And he is the leading advocate for the relevance of Christianity in a postmodern world.

"We won't build the kingdom of God by our own efforts in the present; it remains God's gift by his grace and his power. But we can produce signs of the kingdom in love and justice and beauty and healing and fresh community of all sorts - internationally, locally, all over the place - and thereby celebrate the whole biblical story."

Isaiah 11:9
"For the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea."

"We, my friends, are called to live between the vision of the world which is already filled with the glory of God, and a world which is yet to be filled with the glory of God, as the waters cover the sea."

(quotes taken from N.T. Wright's lectures given at the President's Symposium on the Gospel and Cultural Engagement at Seattle Pacific University)