Russell Moore

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Russell Moore

Where Peter once stood in the place of Pan, we can hear the voice that changes everything. Over 40 years ago, filmmaker Steven Spielberg terrified theatergoers with a movie that quickly embedded itself in the American cultural imagination. Like most scary stories, Poltergeist first lulled the audience with the familiar-a suburban home in a newly built housing development.

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Mike Pence |Russell Moore

They discussed global tensions, prayer for those in authority, and Mrs. Pence's frosty reception of President Trump. Former vice president Mike Pence appeared on The Russell Moore Show four years after the January 6, 2021, US Capitol rioters threatened not only his life but also the lives of his wife and daughter. He discussed former second lady Karen Pence's frosty reception of President Donald Trump, the importance of praying for government leaders, and the potential for a third world war.

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Russell Moore

How the demonization of empathy will lead to a church that neglects repentance and coddles sin. If empathy is a sin, most of those saying so don't seem to have been tempted beyond their ability to bear it. That's one reason I'm not too worried about the latest rhetoric of empathy as the great danger to the church and the world, mostly from those who previously told us that danger was yoga, or yoga pants, or Harry Potter, or hip-hop. Thanks for signing up.

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Russell Moore

The pope was tricky to categorize and at times theologically confusing. Yet I couldn't help but admire him. With the death of Pope Francis this week, my thoughts went in many directions, but one of them was the memory of my humiliation at the front door of his house. Invited by the pope to speak at the Vatican on an evangelical view of marriage and fidelity, I arrived in Rome jetlagged and exhausted, having just finished teaching at a Southern Baptist seminary on Martin Luther's view of conscience.

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Russell Moore

The church's current temptation is a Christology empty of Jesus and a biblical authority void of the Word. "It turns out that when you mix narcissism and nihilism, you create an acid that corrodes every belief system it touches." This is the assessment my friend David Brooks offers in the latest issue of The Atlantic about the state of a movement he once claimed for himself: American conservatism.