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March 13, 2024Marilynne Robinson Reads Genesis as a Story of Grace
Author Marilynne Robinson has long brought layered characters and powerful plots to the page. It is perhaps no wonder, then, that she is looking to a book of Scripture that abounds with both.
On this episode of The Russell Moore Show, Moore welcomes Marilynne for a discussion of her new release, Reading Genesis. They talk about what drew Robinson to Genesis and the Mesopotamian and Babylonian myths that are often compared to it. They consider how various disciplines—from science and physics to philosophy and theology—emerge in the text. They ponder the current cultural interest in multiverse stories, what makes a narrative compelling, and the likability (or lack thereof) of Biblical figures.
Tune in for a rich conversation on justice and mercy, secularization, and how God reveals his character both in Scripture and in our lives today.
Books by Marilynne Robinson mentioned in this episode include:
Reading Genesis
Gilead
Home
Lila
Jack
Housekeeping
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
Wendell Berry
Walker Percy
Frederick Buechner
Jonathan Haidt

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“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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54 min
March 06, 2024Q+A: Reasons for Christian Hope in an Election Year
Is the term evangelical worth holding on to anymore? Is it imperative that Christians participate in elections? What is the way forward for families that have been fractured by political disagreements?
These are some of the listener questions that Russell and producer Ashley Hales address on this episode of The Russell Moore Show. Tune in for a discussion that digs deep into the political dynamics of modern American life while sharing universal truths for living Christianly in a broken world.
Questions addressed during this episode include:
Does Russell read every book that shows up in his newsletter?
What are some tips for reading more regularly?
Is it okay for Christians not to participate in voting for president?
How can Christians whose families are divided over politics prioritize God and one another
What does the evangelical support of Donald Trump do to the term evangelical and its reputation?
How can believers deal with Christian nationalism in their relationships?
What is Christian nationalism?
How might the upcoming election affect local churches?
What hope is there for Christians discouraged by American politics?
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches by Russell Moore
Russell’s newsletter
“Should Christians Vote for the Lesser of Two Evils?” by Russell Moore
“Incurvatus in Se”
“C. S. Lewis on Chronological Snobbery”

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Send it to [email protected].
Special offer for listeners:
Russell Moore will join friends David French and Curtis Chang in Washington, DC, for The After Party LIVE! on April 19. As a faithful listener to the podcast, we’d love for you to join us and use this 20% off offer just for listeners! The After Party is a free six-part video curriculum designed for people & pastors alike, and offers “a better way” for Christians to engage in politics. Learn more and buy tickets here—we’ve saved a seat for you!
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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39 min
February 28, 2024Jennie Allen’s Help For Tangled Emotions
If Russell Moore’s inbox is any indication, listeners of this podcast want to talk about emotions. If you’re among them, this episode with Bible teacher, bestselling author, and founder of IF: Gathering Jennie Allen is for you.
Moore and Allen discuss what she learned while writing her new book, Untangle Your Emotions: Naming Your Emotions and Knowing What to Do about Them. They talk about healthy and unhealthy ways to view emotions, how the COVID-19 pandemic affected emotional well-being, and how our brains try to protect us in traumatic situations. They talk about how God meets us in grief and suffering, how emotions show up in the body, and how honesty about emotions can lead to deeper relationships and family connections.
Their conversation covers the power of memories, what the Bible has to say about emotions, and what it looks like to honor our emotions without letting them lead our lives.
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
IF: Gathering
Untangle Your Emotions: Naming Your Emotions and Knowing What to Do about Them by Jennie Allen
Asbury Revival
Auburn baptisms

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“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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51 min
February 26, 2024Bonus Episode: Should You Watch 'The Chosen'?
Welcome to a special bonus episode of The Russell Moore Show!
Peter Wehner returns for a conversation about the television drama The Chosen, which began its fourth season on February 1, 2024. Wehner expounds on his recent article in The Atlantic, sharing how the series pleasantly surprised him as someone who historically avoided on-screen depictions of Jesus. He describes the ways that Jesus (played by Jonathan Roumie) in The Chosen has a fully-formed personality, displays emotion, and shows how intimately Jesus understood human nature—all elements that have led Wehner to love the show.
Moore and Wehner discuss how The Chosen sheds light on Jewish life under Roman occupation and the role of the Pharisees. They talk about another Christian media phenomenon—the He Gets Us campaign—and consider the wide range of responses to it. Their discussion covers political division, the relationship between the intellect and the heart in belief, and what it means for Christians to be called to faithfulness rather than success.
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
The Chosen
“Jesus on the Small Screen” by Peter Wehner
Peter Wehner
The Trinity Forum
Navigating Friendship and Loss with Peter Wehner
The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
Jesus of Nazareth
He Gets Us campaign
E.Y. Mullins
Further Up and Further In
Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis
The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis
The Jesus Way by Eugene H. Peterson

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“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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33 min
February 21, 2024Michael Wear's Solution to Political Captivity
After all of the arguments and severed relationships that resulted from the elections of 2016 and 2020, here we are, doing it all over again. For all who are weary of the modern political climate, today’s episode with Michael Wear is for you.
Wear is the founder, president, and CEO of the Center for Christianity and Public Life, a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution based in the nation’s capital. A former White House and presidential campaign staffer, Wear has intimate knowledge of the political process and how Christians might engage it with hope.
On this episode, Wear and Moore discuss Wear’s new book, The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life. They consider what a positive, spiritually formed vision for political engagement might be. Their conversation includes how to understand why Christians land on opposing sides of political issues. They explore what the Bible has to say about the government and talk about the role of pastors in politics. And they consider how the truth of the gospel can shape political participation in a broken world.
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
Michael Wear
The Center for Christianity and Public Life
The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life by Michael Wear
Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America by Michael Wear
“College-Educated Voters Are Ruining American Politics” by Eitan Harsh
Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers by Christian Smith
“Spiritual Formation: What It Is, and How It Is Done” by Dallas Willard
The Divine Conspiracy: Rediscovering Our Hidden Life In God by Dallas Willard
Life Together: The Classic Exploration of Christian Community by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Awaiting the King: Reforming Public Theology by James K. A. Smith
Craft and Character:"The Spirit of Politics With Michael Wear" with Steve Carter

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“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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51 min
February 14, 2024Seth Kaplan's Answer to Our Collective Problem
As Seth Kaplan has worked in 35 countries around the world, one thing has made itself clear: healthy relationships are the key to community stability.
“When I go to any place, whether it’s a neighborhood or country,” says Kaplan on this episode of The Russell Moore Show, “the thing I’m most interested in finding out is how well people are treating each other on so many levels.”
In conversation with Moore, Kaplan—author of Fragile Neighborhoods, lecturer, and consultant—explains the reasons Americans feel vulnerable, alienated, and angry. He describes the opportunities people have to do something about those negative feelings and experiences by engaging in local activities that bond them to their neighbors.
Moore and Kaplan discuss the necessity of institutions, identify organizations that are strengthening relationships, and consider the importance of marriage. Their conversation covers how children are being socialized, the effects of social media and digital play, and how to build a local ecosystem. Kaplan also describes his family’s practice of Shabbat and encourages his Christian friends to prioritize Sabbath rest.
Tune in for an episode that gives concrete, creative advice for cultivating flourishing neighborhoods that resist the division of our times.
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
Institute for Integrated Transitions
Fragile Neighborhoods: Repairing American Society One Zip Code at A Time by Seth D. Kaplan
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us by Robert D. Putnam and David E. Campbell
Communio
Jonathan Haidt

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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53 min
February 07, 2024Christian Wiman's Work Against Despair
I love the Lord and he loves me.
I will not forget, and neither will he.
That was the poem that a seven-year-old Christian Wiman handed his pastor—during the altar call, no less. The young Wiman didn’t wait for a response or say a word, he just ran back to his pew. Soon after, the pastor published Wiman’s poem in the Southern Baptist Convention’s newsletter.
“I gave him a poem,” Wiman says on this episode of The Russell Moore Show. “That was my gesture of salvation.”
In the decades since, Wiman has wrestled with his faith, suffered from cancer, and continued to find meaning in writing poetry. On this episode, he and Moore discuss the poetry in Scripture, how Jesus engaged with suffering, and how poetry can help pastors in their preaching. They talk about why poetry can be intimidating, entry points for engaging it, and how poetry can reveal the joy in our lives.
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair by Christian Wiman
My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman
Joy: 100 Poems edited by Christian Wiman
The Tree of Life
Frederick Buechner
“The Figure a Poem Makes” by Robert Frost
Theology and Joy by Jürgen Moltmann
“How the Poet Christian Wiman Keeps His Faith” by Casey Cep for The New Yorker
W. A. Criswell
Abraham Joshua Heschel
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Sara Grant
The Sickness unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition of Edification & Awakening by Anti-Climacus by Søren Kierkegaard
Miroslav Volf
“The Ground of Being”
Basil Bunting
John Milton
William Shakespeare
William Wordsworth

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“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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49 min
January 31, 2024Kate Bowler Tells Us Where We're Wrong on Suffering
For historian Kate Bowler, grief and suffering are more than just a topic of interest. She’s intimately acquainted with pain herself as someone who was diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, faced a small chance of survival, and lives with chronic pain. As she puts it, “I spent a long time almost dying.”
On this episode of The Russell Moore Show, Bowler shares words of wisdom honed from her research and her personal life. She and Moore talk about her new book Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens and discuss the vulnerability of being human. They explore the anxious tenor of the modern era in a historical context and talk about the ways people discuss (or avoid discussing) hard things. They consider what it looks like to keep the faith in times of trial and how powerful acts of kindness and tenderness can be in seasons of suffering. Their conversation covers theology, Christian history, and the specific ways that the prosperity gospel has shaped evangelicalism.
Tune in for an episode that is as rich and resourceful as it is enjoyable and encouraging.
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
Kate Bowler
Have a Beautiful, Terrible Day!: Daily Meditations for the Ups, Downs & In-Betweens by Kate Bowler
No Cure for Being Human (And Other Truths I Need To Hear) by Kate Bowler
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler
Dorothy Day
Reinhold Niebuhr
Beth Moore
Timothy Keller
Richard Hayes
The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Reynolds Price
“How Do People Actually Change?” by Simeon Zahl
“Tears” by Frederick Buchner

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“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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39 min
January 24, 2024Tom Holland on the Price of Peace
While answers to the question “How often do you think about the Roman Empire?” range from “daily” to “just about never,” Ancient Rome has a considerable impact on the lives of people in the West. On this episode, Russell Moore welcomes Tom Holland—award-winning biographer, historian, and author of Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World. Holland's new book Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age sheds light on the Roman Empire’s lasting impact.
During their discussion, Moore and Holland consider the Roman influence on many American facets of life ranging from government to philosophy to gender. They consider what Ancient Rome can teach listeners about navigating dissension, the role of violence, and the role of virtue in maintaining a civilization. Their conversation covers the relationship of Ancient Rome to Christianity, how the Bible depicts Rome, and how to read Revelation with the Roman context in mind. Moore and Holland talk about radicalization, the October 7th Hamas attack, and the influence of social media.
Tune in for a powerful discussion that sheds light on specific ways our histories inform our present lives.
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
“Citizens” by John Guerra
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland
Pax: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age by Tom Holland
Mary Beard
Man in Full by Tom Wolfe
Song of Ice and Fire Series by George R.R. Martin
Edward Gibbon
Spartacus

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“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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55 min
January 17, 2024Tender Questions on Parenting, Adoption, and Sexuality
How can parents guard against viewing their children’s behavior as solely a statement about their success or failure in parenting? What does it look like for churches to embrace people with cognitive differences? Why is it important to support adopted children in grieving the loss of their biological families?
Russell and producer Ashley Hales address complex questions like these on this episode of The Russell Moore Show. They discuss issues of sexuality, trauma, and mental health in response to listener questions. Tune in as they provide compassionate Christian perspectives on tough topics.
Questions addressed during this episode include:
How can parents wisely navigate relationships with their adult children who have differing views on theological and social issues?
What does it look like for the church to help adoptees heal from the trauma of losing their birth families and communities?
Why did Russell and his wife, Maria, choose to homeschool their sons?
How can parents trust God’s goodness when a child tries to take their own life?
Will an unwed pregnant mother go to hell if she doesn’t marry the child’s father?
How can families find welcoming churches for children with neurodivergence, such as those on the autism spectrum?
Resources mentioned in this episode include:
The University of Chicago Institute of Politics
23andMe
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson

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“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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44 min

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