Russell Moore

Nashville

Editor-in-Chief and Director, Public Theology Project at Christianity Today

Editor in Chief, @CTmagazine; author, Losing Our Religion: An Altar Call for Evangelical America 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 🇺🇦

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Articles

Don't Blame Bible Prophecy for a War with Iran

1 week ago | christianitytoday.com | Russell Moore

We're living in the last days. But Jesus never said we'd know exactly when the end would come. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here. After Israel's recent bombing of Iran, a friend told me about a preacher who asserted that Russia might be the Gog and Magog of the Book of Ezekiel, that Iran might be one of the hostile nations pictured by the prophets, and that all of this just might be pointing toward the imminence of the literal apocalypse.
PEPFAR and the Uneasy Conscience of American Christianity

3 weeks ago | christianitytoday.com | Russell Moore

It was Christianity that taught the world that every person ought to matter. Now is not the time to abandon or betray that truth. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here. We are so accustomed to seeing every public argument as a cage fight that it can be genuinely surprising to see a mind changing in the course of a conversation.
Jordan Peterson's Pause - Christianity Today

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Russell Moore

YouTube atheists were right to expect a better response to the question "Are you a Christian?" But there are worse answers. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here. In a room full of atheists, psychologist and political pundit Jordan Peterson sat in the center seat. He was asked a single, simple question: "Are you a Christian?" His response: "You say that.
The Oral Majority - Christianity Today

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Russell Moore

A seismic shift from literacy to digital orality may be the biggest threat to evangelical Christianity in our times. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here. Any organization-business, ministry, school, whatever-typically asks what the biggest threats are to its mission. The assumption behind that exercise is that the most dangerous obstacles are those that one never sees coming.
How I Learned to Love the Apocalypse

1 month ago | christianitytoday.com | Russell Moore

Teaching through the Book of Revelation kept me sane in a crazy year. This piece was adapted from Russell Moore's newsletter. Subscribe here. When times are dark, people often steady themselves with an escape into a book. Sometimes that means retreating into stories of simpler times or happier places. I recently learned there's even a genre called "cozy mystery."With the bleakness of the news these days, I too found myself seeking refuge in the better, calmer world of a book.
Love in the Ruins of 2025

1 month 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.
The Problem of Panic

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.
Former VP Mike Pence's Conversation with Russell Moore

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.
Hellfire-and-Brimstone Empathy - Christianity Today

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.
A US Evangelical Considers Pope Francis

2 months 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.