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Instead of the seven words that Jesus spoke from the cross, Tom Wright invites you to consider seven words that people spoke to the cross–people like Mary and the Roman centurion who witnessed the crucifixion, and Pontius Pilate, who helped to instigate it. The result is a powerful sequence of meditations that will move you to reassess your own response to Jesus’ death, his resurrection, and the...

and did it all more or less unreflectively. That changed for me when I listened to the record of Jesus Christ Superstar in 1971; I realised then that the questions it raised (‘Jesus Christ, Superstar, do you think you’re what they say you are?’) were important, even if the answers it suggested were inadequate. These questions remained dormant through much of the 1970s as I worked primarily on St Paul (and got ordained, started a family, moved house three times, and so on). They resurfaced not least
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