Russell D. Moore

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  May 21, 2012

  As a Chaplain, Must I Always Publicly Pray in Jesus' Name?

  If you are asked to pray, you can only pray as a Christian. In so doing, you are actually, ironically enough, protecting the rights of other religions and their chaplains. I frankly don't want a Muslim chaplain forced by the government to pray like a Episcopalian.

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  May 12, 2012

  Mother's Day and the Infertile

  Mother's Day is a particularly sensitive time in many congregations, and pastors and church leaders often don't even know it. It is good and right to honor mothers. We must recognize though that many infertile women find this day almost unbearable.

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  May 9, 2012

  What Maurice Sendak Can Teach the Church

  Maurice Sendak, who just died, doesn't seem, at first glance, to have much to teach Christians. After all, he was an atheist with a cynical outlook and a foul mouth.

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  Apr 27, 2012

  Beyond a Trickle-Down Liturgy

  I don't know about you, but I'm tired of trickle-down liturgy. What I mean by that is music that is designed and marketed somewhere, makes it on Christian radio or other media, and then becomes familiar enough that people start singing it in church.

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  Apr 8, 2012

  How the Resurrection Undoes Our Need to Be Proven Right

  Sometime before dawn on Sunday morning, a spike-torn hand twitched. A blood-crusted eyelid opened. God was not simply delivering Jesus (and with him all of us) from death.

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  Mar 26, 2012

  Should Christians Boycott Starbucks?

  In this case (and in many like it) a boycott exposes us to all of our worst tendencies. Christians are tempted, again and again, to fight like the devil to please the Lord.

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  Mar 21, 2012

  Peace and Justice in Iraq?

  Tuesday was the ninth anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. We might disagree about whether the war was the right decision, and about where U.S. policy should go from here. But those who belong to Christ ought to be able to agree on one at least one thing: prayer for peace, justice, and gospel in the old country of Abram.

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  Mar 16, 2012

  Should I Divorce If I'm Miserable?

  My wife and I are at an impasse. There's been no abandonment, no sexual immorality, and no abuse. We just don't get along. We should have known we are incompatible.

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  Feb 29, 2012

  Is It Right for a Christian to Take Anti-Depressants?

  Depression is not just unpleasant; it can be debilitating and dangerous, and it signals that something has gone wrong somewhere. God created us as whole persons, with body and psyche together.

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  Feb 25, 2012

  Johnny Cash at Eighty

  This Sunday would be Johnny Cash's eightieth birthday. To be sure, Cash's Christian testimony is a mixed bag.