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The point of justice and mercy anyway is not ‘they deserve it’ but ‘this is the way God’s world should be’, and we are called to do those things that truly anticipate the way God’s world WILL be.

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N. T. Wright
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 1
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Morpeth
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Nicholas Thomas Wright
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