The Russell Moore Show
Listen in as Russell Moore, director of Christianity Today’s Public Theology Project and Editor-in-Chief, talks about the latest books, cultural conversations and pressing ethical questions that point us toward the kingdom of Christ.
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July 18, 2025 • 13 mins
Russell reads his recent newsletter article on the public outcry for release of the Epstein files.
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July 16, 2025 • 54 mins
How do you handle conflict?
If you said “not well,” let conversation expert Jefferson Fisher offer you practical tips for navigating difficult conversation. And there’s good news: if you’re afraid of conflict, you don’t have to be.
Jefferson Fisher is an attorney, author, and a bonafide conversation expert. His videos–about conversation and communication–serve an audience of over 6 million on Instagram, and 1 million on TikTok. ...
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July 9, 2025 • 62 mins
Doomscrolling, algorithms, artificial intelligence—these concepts have become so familiar to us and such a part of our everyday monotony that they’ve become jokes.
But Nicholas Carr isn’t laughing.
Carr’s work in tech journalism has given him a front-row seat to watch the shift of culture around technology over the last decade. His recent book, Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart, explores his observations—a...
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July 2, 2025 • 47 mins
For Independence Day, we are running an episode of particular relevance from our archives.
Could the Constitution provide the antidote to polarization?
Yuval Levin thinks so. The director of social, cultural, and constitutional studies at the American Enterprise Institute, Levin is the author of a new book titled American Covenant. In it, and during this episode, Levin identifies the reasons people feel as though America is at a ...
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June 25, 2025 • 57 mins
Gary Haugen has seen the darkest things imaginable. He’s spent decades fighting human traffickers, corrupt governments, and mobs that enslave men, women, and children to sell them for sex and profit. But he’s not one bit cynical.
As president of International Justice Mission, Haugen has worked to abolish modern-day slavery and to put the bad guys in jail while building the kind of institutions that ensure people are never treated ...
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June 23, 2025 • 13 mins
Are we in the last days? Yes. Everything from the empty tomb onward are the last days.
Could Jesus return at any moment? Absolutely.
But can we track that coming based on the bombing schedules of Israel or Iran? No.
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June 18, 2025 • 34 mins
What do Andy Warhol, Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, Flannery O’Connor, and Bono all have in common? According to writer and cultural historian Paul Elie, they’re “cryptoreligious.” Their art isn’t about affirming doctrine—it’s about invoking mystery, longing, and spiritual disquiet.
In a culture where religious belief is often either rigidly defined or entirely dismissed, these artists dwell in the in between. They don’t preach—but the...
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June 11, 2025 • 48 mins
Former governor John Kasich has been a lot of things: US presidential candidate, governor, political commentator, congressman. And throughout his career, he witnessed faith communities of all religions come together and support not only each other but also their communities at-large. His new book, Heaven Help Us, reflects his observation of this dynamic and the ways faith communities are uniquely positioned to effect change in a br...
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June 9, 2025 • 8 mins
American evangelical Christians ought to care about the dismantling of PEPFAR.
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June 4, 2025 • 58 mins
What does a Shire full of hobbits in Middle-Earth, a county full of farmers in Kentucky, and a wardrobe full of a lion have in common? For Russell Moore and singer/songwriter/author Andrew Peterson, they were all a way to find home.
In this episode—recorded inside Peterson’s book-lined Chapter House in Nashville, right down the road from Moore—the two talk about the authors who, by God’s grace, helped hold their faith together...
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May 28, 2025 • 52 mins
What do Albert Einstein, the Jesus People, and Donald Trump all have in common?
According to historian and journalist Molly Worthen, they’re all part of a surprising American story about the strange, magnetic force we call charisma. In this episode, Russell Moore sits down with Worthen to explore the themes of her new book, Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History, and why understanding charisma may be the key to understa...
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May 26, 2025 • 7 mins
The greatest threat to the church is not what we think it is.
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May 21, 2025 • 51 mins
Biblical literacy is over, right? The world is too secular to care about the Bible, and even if people were interested, our attention spans—shaped by smartphones and streaming—couldn’t keep up anyway. So why are Bible sales on the rise? And how is it that a podcast helping people read the Bible in ten-minute segments is outpacing names like Joe Rogan on the charts?
Millions of listeners tune in daily to The Bible Recap with Tara-L...
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May 19, 2025 • 11 mins
When you feel anxious or afraid, read something calming and reassuring—like the Book of Revelation.
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May 14, 2025 • 48 mins
Is God’s will for your life more of a dot or a circle?
That’s one of the questions addressed by Grammy Award–winning producer and artist Charlie Peacock, whose new memoir Roots & Rhythm explores what it means to find one’s calling in life, how to heal from the past, and how to give up the quest for holding on to power.
This conversation reveals at least one middle-school-era debate over what counts as “Christian music” (spoiler: ...
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May 12, 2025 • 9 mins
An end-times novel predicted the insanity of 2025 and it just might point the way out.
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May 7, 2025 • 54 mins
What happens when everything you’ve built crumbles beneath your feet?
In this personal and open conversation, pastor Ray Ortlund talks about what he’s learned from unexpected losses, crushed hopes, and discarded dreams. Moore and Ortlund discuss how to get through those moments when faith is tested beyond what seems bearable—and they talk about the surprising joy that emerges on the other side.
Resources mentioned in this episod...
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May 5, 2025 • 14 mins
The demonization of empathy will lead to a church that coddles sin.
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April 30, 2025 • 33 mins
What can the lives and trials of our Asian American neighbors teach the rest of us?
Michael Luo, executive editor of The New Yorker and author of the new book Strangers in the Land: Exclusion, Belonging, and the Epic Story of the Chinese in America, joins Mooreto talk about our country’s treatment of its Chinese residents, which drew Luo to trace his own family’s path to the United States.
Moore and Luo discuss not only American ...
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April 28, 2025 • 10 mins
An American evangelical considers the life of Pope Francis.
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