Ideas By N.T. Wright December 20, 2024 7:00 AM EST Wright, the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England, is Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall in Oxford. His book Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies (co-authored with Michael Bird) is published by Zondervan. L ike a shoddy police procedural with an easily-recognizable bad guy—the unshaven one with the heavy accent—the Christmas story has one villain in