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How to Be Sane When Everything's Crazy


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“That is one nutty hospital.”

So says Bill Murray’s character, Jeff Slater, in the 1982 film Tootsie—and, effectively, so say many listeners of The Russell Moore Show when they reach out with questions or comments about the state of society and politics today. America is trying to recover from the physical, emotional, and economic effects of COVID-19 while simultaneously barreling toward an election season that is particularly rife with discord. 

On this episode of The Russell Moore Show, we’re bringing together clips from four past episodes that provide, as Moore puts it, “some counsel of sanity in really crazy times.” Listeners hear from Jen Wilkin on unfair pay for women in churches and Beth Moore on how abuse has affected her view of God as a father. Yuval Levin speaks to what we can do as the institutions around us crumble and the late Tim Keller reminds us that we can both claim the power of forgiveness and seek justice.

Tune in for an episode that offers focus, encouragement, and hope for weathering the days to come.

This episode features clips from the following episodes of The Russell Moore Show:

  • Beth Moore Speaks Out
  • Jen Wilkin on Women in the Church
  • Yuval Levin on What Christians Can Learn from Religious Minorities
  • Tim Keller Says Forgiveness Is Key to Christian Witness

  • Resources mentioned in this episode include: 

    • Tootsie
    • Honor Thy Church Mother—with Wages
    • The Westminster Confession of Faith
    • All My Knotted-Up Life: A Memoir by Beth Moore
    • American Covenant: How the Constitution Unified Our Nation―and Could Again by Yuval Levin
    • Exclusion and Embrace, Revised and Updated: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation by Miroslav Volf
    • A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems, 1979-1997 by Wendell Berry
    • The Diary of a Country Priest: A Novel by Georges Bernanos


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