The word ‘idolatry’ has a remote, archaic, feel to it.  Ancient people, and primitive people, are idolatrous, aren’t they.  But us…?  The command ‘You shall have not other Gods before me’ (Exodus 20:3) seems to be quite irrelevant.

Tom Wright, in his recent book Surprised by Scripture, shows that idolatry is alive and well in our modern, supposedly secular, society.  The ancient gods are alive and kicking.

Well, of course, all is not despair.  And Wright points to Jesus, who alone can show us how we may disentangle ourselves from our worship of these false gods.…