The Russell Moore Show
Listen in as Russell Moore, editor at-large of Christianity Today and director of CT's Public Theology Project, talks about the latest books, cultural conversations and pressing ethical questions that point us toward the kingdom of Christ.
You Cannot See Everything
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: What a Painfully Weird Movie Can Show Us About Lying and Liars
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N.T. Wright on How an Ancient Prophet Explains Our Crazy World
What if everything we think we know about power is wrong?
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In a world captivated by political strongmen, military might, and the promise of technological salvation, the ancient prophet Isaiah offers a startlingly different picture of what happens when God comes to set the world right.
For Russell Moore, Isaiah has been one of the biblical books keeping him sane in unsettling times. And in his new book, Into the Heart of Isaiah (October 27), renowned biblical scholar N. T. Wright argues that the prophet's message i...
How I Changed My Mind (Kind of) on the Death Penalty
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: Maybe now is the time to look at what we actually see around us: a culture that too often delights in cruelty and violence.
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Mike Cosper on the Rise and Fall of Mars Hill, Five Years Later
Five years after The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill podcast, have American churches learned anything about the dangers of celebrity, power, and spiritual abuse?
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When Mike Cosper released The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill in 2021, he thought he was telling the story of one church congregation and its charismatic, controversial pastor, Mark Driscoll. But the podcast reached far beyond those who knew anything about Mars Hill. It turns out the story of a Seattle megachurch had something to say about the ways we think about leadership, authority, and the...
Alister McGrath on Why Christianity Is Worth Rethinking
What if the most important questions people are asking about Christianity are no longer about whether it's true, but whether it can make sense of their lives?
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When Alister McGrath arrived at Oxford as a young atheist, he assumed Christianity was on its way out. He wasn't alone in that assumption. For much of the past century, the prevailing idea among intellectuals was that science and reason would eventually make religious belief obsolete. But McGrath ended up becoming a Christian, and over the decades since, he's noticed som...
The Cornell Seven and the High Cost of Fake Fraternity
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: We ought to look around at places without keg parties or ketamine hits and ask where our own sense of solidarity is real and where it’s just another prelude to a coverup.
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Emilee Hackney on Appalachia, Faith, and What the Church Doesn’t See
What would we learn if we listened to the people who have left our churches?
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Emilee Hackney had never written a book before. She doesn’t have a substack or a social media following, nor does she write op-eds for the New York Times or The Atlantic. But her debut memoir, All That’s Unseen, has become a New York Times bestseller, was named a finalist for the 2026 Southern Book Prize, and had feature reviews in the Wall Street Journal, Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, and more.
The topi...
John Mark Comer on Why We Need to Get Quiet
Maybe the way to speak with clarity into a loud and angry age starts with learning when not to speak at all.
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Most of us know what it is to feel overwhelmed by noise…not just the literal kind, but the pings and alerts, the demands and arguments, the constant sense that something somewhere requires our attention right now. John Mark Comer, author of The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, returns to talk with Russell about his new book, Into the Quiet: Following Jesus in a World of Noise (October 6th). And, as C...
Scary, Angry Churches Make Scared, Angered Christians
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: A system that scares you can sometimes keep you compliant, but whatever can ultimately direct your life is your god.
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Russ Ramsey on What Facing Death Teaches Us About Being Alive
How do you learn the lessons of mortality before mortality forces you to?
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After Wendell Berry’s death, Russell Moore gathered with friends to talk about Berry’s life and work. During that conversation, pastor and author Russ Ramsey brought up Remembering, Berry’s novel about Andy Catlett, a farmer who loses his right hand—and, with it, his old way of holding on to the world.
Years earlier, Ramsey had nearly died from a bacterial infection that required open-heart su...
AI, Surrender All
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: AI tech bros seem like awful, broken people. And they might be telling us the truth.
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Michael Keller on The Stories We Live By
Tim Keller’s son on the new book they co-wrote together.
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Russell talks with Michael Keller about his new book, The Stories We Live By (co-written with Tim Keller), and the cultural myths that promise to make sense of our lives before ultimately falling apart.
Michael and Russell talk about why suffering has a way of exposing the stories we actually believe, why forgiveness becomes almost impossible when everything is reduced to a struggle for power, and why a Christian understanding of identity is neither somet...
Trump-Era Laughter at Immigrant Suffering Is Deforming Our Souls
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: The Joker Is Our Spiritual Director Now
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What Wendell Berry Can Teach Us About Christian Nationalism
How can Wendell Berry’s novels help us understand love of country and community without stumbling into idolatry?
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In 2021, Russell did a talk at The Rabbit Room’s virtual conference, Hutchmoot: Homebound. Given in the main room of North Wind Manor, Russell shared how Berry’s fiction can help us see something underneath our political arguments, revealing the human longing to belong somewhere.
Drawing from Jayber Crow, Hannah Coulter, and other works by Berry, Russell argues that the answer to Christian nationalism isn’t les...
What Wendell Berry Taught Me About Heaven
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: Reflections on Wendell Berry.
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Some of Russell’s Writings on Wendell Berry over the Years
"Why You Should Read Hannah Coulter"
"7 Books That Changed My Life"
"My Favorite Books of 2019"
On It All Turns on Affection
On Life Is a Miracle
"Faith, Fiction, and Christian Nationalism"
My Library of America tribute to Wendell Berry on his 90th birthday
"Good Riddance to the Robert E. Lee Statue"
"Wendell Be...
Charlie Dates on What American Christianity Gets Wrong About Justice
What happens when Christians separate righteousness from justice?
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In American Christianity, questions of personal morality and public justice are often treated as though they belong in different categories. Christians may speak confidently about some moral issues while dismissing others as distractions from the gospel or as politics the church should avoid. Charlie Dates’ new book, What Hath Justice to Do with Righteousness?, challenges that distinction. Scripture, he argues, doesn’t allow Christians to choose between personal holiness and concern for the people and communities around them.
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Goodbye, Dolly
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: Dolly Parton didn’t need you to love her (and that’s why most of us did)
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BEST OF: A Conversation with Beth Moore
Our most listened-to episode of all time.
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We’re finishing our “Best Of” series with the most listened to, most engaged with, most OUTSTANDING listener favorite episode of all time: Russell’s conversation with Beth Moore from 2021. The topic of the conversation was supposed to be “lessons in leaving and staying,” as they had both recently gone through leaving the beloved denomination they were raised in, but as it often goes…the conversation went much further than that.
Beth has been on this show several times since this e...
How to Forgive Someone Who Isn’t Sorry
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: God knows forgiveness is hard for us. It is not hard for him.
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BEST OF: A Conversation with Andrew Peterson
An early conversation with one of our favorite guests.
This “Best of” episode is from the first few years of this show’s existence–back when it was called Signposts–with a guest we’ve had on many times since, Andrew Peterson. The conversation was recorded in 2016 (without cameras, so you won’t be able to watch this one on YouTube) in front of a live audience. You’ll hear shifting in seats, coughing, and even the sound of soda cans being opened.
The conversation wasn’t centered on a new book or new m...
Christian Nationalist Doublespeak
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: A state that can define who is in or out of the kingdom of God is a state that has the power to do anything.
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BEST OF: A Conversation with Marilynne Robinson
One of the great American novelists on her little-explored Theological foundations
Over the next few weeks, the Russell Moore Show is digging into the archives and bringing back some of our favorite episodes, like this one from 2021 (before the show included video!) with great American novelist, Marilynne Robinson.
On the occasion of her new novel, Jack, Russell welcomed Marilynne to explore some of her Theological foundations that no one asks (but he wished someone would). They talk about the place of religion in society, sin and evil, and the transforming power of grace in each...
Your Brain Does Not Belong to You
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: How you can protect yourself from brain rot—and why it matters to the rest of us. Find the David Brooks episode here.
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BEST OF: A Conversation with Rainn Wilson
Russell’s conversation with Rainn Wilson (Dwight Schrute).
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Over the next few weeks, the Russell Moore Show is digging into the archives and bringing back some of our favorite conversations.
This inaugural “best of” episode from May of 2023 is with Rainn Wilson, best known as Dwight Schrute from the TV series, The Office, who utters this phrase: “Whenever I’m about to do something, I think ‘Would an idiot do that?’ And if they would, I do not do that thing.”
In a...
David Brooks on Thriving in the AI Age
Do you have what it takes to thrive in the era of AI?
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We talk a lot about AI on this show. And at a time when everyone is questioning the ethics of it all, David Brooks is more interested in what kind of people we should be no matter what happens with AI. His latest for The Atlantic, “The People Who Will Thrive in the AI Age” starts with a comforting bit of research: AI is not necessarily taking our jobs or lessening our workloads. Inst...
Why Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey Haunts Us Right Now
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: No matter which way we turn, we don’t know what home is. That’s why Homer still rings true, even in the era of IMAX and SpaceX.
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Lee Camp on the Politics of Loving Your Neighbor
What would it look like if Christians were known less for winning political battles and more for being good neighbors?
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And now for something a little different! On the occasion of Lee C. Camp’s paperback release of his book Scandalous Witness, he invited Russell to interview him for his own podcast, No Small Endeavor. Since the conversation included topics like Christian nationalism, how Christians have been neighbors both good AND bad, and how Christian witness can actually recover some humility, it felt appropriate to share the episode here too.
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How the Mitch McConnell Spectacle Ought to Teach Us About Age
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: the spiritual reason our elderly leaders refuse to give up power.
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Steven Curtis & Mary Beth Chapman on Staying Married Through Joy and Heartbreak
What keeps a marriage standing after decades of walking through the ordinary and unimaginable?
Steven Curtis Chapman and Mary Beth Chapman have spent more than 40 years together, raising a family while navigating a life in the public eye. Their new book, Still Here, is the story of this life–one shared by two imperfect people learning over and over again what it means to bear with one another in love.
The Chapmans join Russell from Steven’s home studio to reflect on marrying young, surviving seasons of insecurity, balancing family with a demanding career, and why the r...
Graham Platner and the Problem of a Too-Tidy Redemption Arc
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: the Graham Platner scandal shows us about how a good comeback story can be dangerous.
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Daniel Nayeri AND Beth Moore on Everything Sad Becoming Untrue
Beth Moore returns as Russell's co-host for a conversation with acclaimed novelist Daniel Nayeri.
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It was Beth who first insisted Russell read Daniel's award-winning novel, Everything Sad Is Untrue. After dragging his feet to pick it up, Russell only had one regret: waiting so long.
Together, the three talk about Nayeri’s novels, including Everything Sad Is Untrue and his newest hit, The Teacher of Nomad Land. Daniel reflects on fleeing Iran as a child refugee, Beth shares why these books affected her so deeply, and all th...
What Happens When We Reduce the Bible to Moral Lessons?
Russell answers a listener question about whether we’re actually teaching the Gospel to children in Sunday school, or just giving good advice.
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Happy 250th Birthday to an Imperfect Nation
We are Americans best when we are not Americans first.
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In this special Fourth of July episode, Russell revisits conversations with Ken Burns, Eddie Glaude Jr., Michael Luo, Jon Guerra, Yuval Levin, Sharon McMahon, and Jon Meacham to ask what faithful citizenship looks like in an anxious and divided age.
Guests in these conversations explore America's founding, its failures, the difference between patriotism and nationalism, the place of immigrants and strangers, the danger of political idolatry, and why Christians must resist both cynicism and sentimentalism.
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How to Have a "Patriotic" Worship Service Without Making America the Point
From the Moore to the Point newsletter: A few weeks ago, Russell wrote here that the 250th anniversary of the United States deserves a better gospel than the false one of Christian nationalism. A pastor wrote in to ask what his church should do on the Sunday before this important Independence Day. Here’s what Russell told him.
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Andy Crouch on Why Technology Can’t Cure Loneliness
What if the thing we're craving most isn't more control over our lives, but deeper connection with other people?
As Russell takes some time away with his family this summer, we're revisiting a conversation that feels even more relevant now than when it first aired in 2022. Back then, Russell sat down with Andy Crouch to discuss technology, smartphones, social media, and Andy's book The Life We're Looking For. Listening again today, it's hard not to hear something deeper..this isn't only a conversation about screens, but about what it means to be human.
Andy argues...
What Do People Mean When They Say "The Universe"?
Russell answers a listener question about the use of the word “universe” when talking about matters of provision or guidance.
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If You've Seen Jesus, You Have Seen the Father
With Father’s Day on Sunday, Russell reflects on some of the most memorable conversations from the Russell Moore Show about fathers, sons, parenting, loss, and what it means to call God our Father.
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Along the way, Tim Alberta remembers a father whose grace ran deeper than disagreement. Eddie Glaude Jr. recalls the words his parents used to shield his soul from hatred. Beth Moore shares how she learned to trust God as Father despite a painful childhood. Richard Reeves explains why young men need father figures—and...
What Do You Do When Christian Nationalism Comes to Church?
Russell answers two questions from listeners asking what it looks like to oppose Christian nationalism while still pursuing the unity of the church.
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David French on the Last Ten Years
What would the Russell Moore and David French of 2026 say to their 2016 selves?
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Our friend David French joins for a look back on what has changed since 2016 in American politics and American evangelicalism. Russell and David examine the influence of Pentecostalism, prosperity theology, church-growth culture, the missional movement, and New Calvinism, and how Donald Trump was emboldened by the culture they’ve cultivated. They wrestle with questions of power, certainty, leadership, gender, and why political identity has increasingly become a defining force within many Christian communities.
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How Should Christians Read the Media?
Russell answers a question from a listener who wonders how to engage with news media.
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