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The year is coming to an end, which means it’s time to reflect on our favorite reads! On this episode, Russell Moore and producer Ashley Hales discuss the books that have stuck with them this year. Their conversation touches on the winners of Christianity Today’s 2023 Book Awards and the back catalogs of authors whose new releases are making a splash.
Their conversation spans biographies, memoirs, fiction, and more. Moore and Hales discover themes across genres and consider how their 2023 reading might inform their 2024 thinking.
For more insight into what Russell is reading throughout the year, subscribe to his newsletter here.
Russell’s Top Ten Books of 2023:
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta
Watership Down: The Graphic Novel by Richard Adams, adapted and Illustrated by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin
All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir by Beth Moore
C.S. Lewis in America: Readings and Receptions, 1935-1947 by Mark A. Noll
Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism, and Right-Wing Identity Politics by Tobias Cremer
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South by Esau McCaulley
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from DaVinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton
Lights a Lovely Mile: Collected Sermons of the Church Year by Eugene H. Peterson
Additional books mentioned in this episode include:
Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture by Christopher Watkin (CT Book of the Year Award)
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing by Andy Crouch
Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton
Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West by Andrew Wilson
The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams by Lester J. Capon
The Three-Body Problem Series by Cixin Liu
Episodes of The Russell Moore Show featuring authors discussed in this episode include:
Ashley Hales is the producer of The Russell Moore Show, founder of Willowbrae Institute, and an author. Find out more at aahales.com.
Do you have a question for Russell Moore? Send it to [email protected].
Click here for a trial membership at Christianity Today.
“The Russell Moore Show” is a production of Christianity Today
Executive Producers: Erik Petrik, Russell Moore, and Mike Cosper
Host: Russell Moore
Producer: Ashley Hales
Associate Producers: Abby Perry and McKenzie Hill
Director of Operations for CT Media: Matt Stevens
Audio engineering by Dan Phelps
Video producer: Abby Egan
Theme Song: “Dusty Delta Day” by Lennon Hutton
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The year is coming to an end, which means it’s time to reflect on our favorite reads! On this episode, Russell Moore and producer Ashley Hales discuss the books that have stuck with them this year. Their conversation touches on the winners of Christianity Today’s 2023 Book Awards and the back catalogs of authors whose new releases are making a splash.
Their conversation spans biographies, memoirs, fiction, and more. Moore and Hales discover themes across genres and consider how their 2023 reading might inform their 2024 thinking.
For more insight into what Russell is reading throughout the year, subscribe to his newsletter here.
Russell’s Top Ten Books of 2023:
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta
Watership Down: The Graphic Novel by Richard Adams, adapted and Illustrated by James Sturm and Joe Sutphin
All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir by Beth Moore
C.S. Lewis in America: Readings and Receptions, 1935-1947 by Mark A. Noll
Godless Crusade: Religion, Populism, and Right-Wing Identity Politics by Tobias Cremer
King: A Life by Jonathan Eig
How Far to the Promised Land: One Black Family's Story of Hope and Survival in the American South by Esau McCaulley
Self-Made: Creating Our Identities from DaVinci to the Kardashians by Tara Isabella Burton
Lights a Lovely Mile: Collected Sermons of the Church Year by Eugene H. Peterson
Additional books mentioned in this episode include:
Biblical Critical Theory: How the Bible's Unfolding Story Makes Sense of Modern Life and Culture by Christopher Watkin (CT Book of the Year Award)
The Chronicles of Narnia by C.S. Lewis
Surprised by Joy by C. S. Lewis
The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams
Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing by Andy Crouch
Bobos In Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There by David Brooks
Strange Rites: New Religions for a Godless World by Tara Isabella Burton
Remaking the World: How 1776 Created the Post-Christian West by Andrew Wilson
The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams by Lester J. Capon
The Three-Body Problem Series by Cixin Liu
Episodes of The Russell Moore Show featuring authors discussed in this episode include:
Ashley Hales is the producer of The Russell Moore Show, founder of Willowbrae Institute, and an author. Find out more at aahales.com.
Do you have a question for Russell Moore? Send it to [email protected].
Click here for a trial membership at Christianity Today.
“The Russell Moore Show” is a production of Christianity Today
Executive Producers: Erik Petrik, Russell Moore, and Mike Cosper
Host: Russell Moore
Producer: Ashley Hales
Associate Producers: Abby Perry and McKenzie Hill
Director of Operations for CT Media: Matt Stevens
Audio engineering by Dan Phelps
Video producer: Abby Egan
Theme Song: “Dusty Delta Day” by Lennon Hutton
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