Russell Moore

1 week ago | christianitytoday.com | Russell Moore

How Walker Percy's 1971 end-times novel predicted our current insanity-and how it just might point the way out. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here. If you've ever looked around at the chaos of the current moment and wondered, "Who could have seen this coming?" I have an answer: Walker Percy. Percy, an American writer, died 35 years ago this week-long before Trump, Twitter, TikTok, or transgender sports debates.

1 week 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 week 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.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.