Russell D. Moore

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  Dec 2, 2015

  Is Pro-Life Rhetoric Deadly?

  Pro-life rhetoric is in the news right now, since a deranged man went on a shooting spree inside a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood clinic. Some on the Left would impute this killer's actions to the rhetoric of pro-life organizations, especially about the horrifying revelations about Planned Parenthood that have come out over the past year.

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  Oct 20, 2015

  Gambling Hurts the Poor; It's a Justice Issue

  Conservative Christians can't talk about gambling if we don't see the bigger picture.

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  Oct 14, 2015

  Playboy Is Too Boring to Succeed

  Playboy magazine has decided that naked women are too boring. After years of social conservatives and feminists telling them their nude objectification is degrading to women, Playboy executives have yielded because they are not able to be degrading enough to keep up with the Internet.

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  Sep 18, 2015

  Where Pope Francis Is Right — and Wrong — On Abortion and Mercy

  In recent weeks Pope Francis made headlines by announcing that Catholic women who have had abortions, and are repentant, may receive forgiveness during this "Year of Mercy" by going directly to any priest for confession, without the direct authorization of the bishop.

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  Sep 13, 2015

  Why Politics Can't Drive the Gospel

  One of the reasons I say that it is good for American Christianity to no longer think of itself as a "moral majority" is that such a mentality obscures the strangeness of the gospel. When a vision of Christian political engagement hinges on building a politically viable network of ideologically united voters, Christ and him crucified will tend to be a stumbling block, not a rallying point.

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  Sep 4, 2015

  Original Sin Plus Modern Technology: Ashley Madison Is Just the Beginning

  I would love to prognosticate that the Ashley Madison scandal is the jolt we needed to set some things aright, but I'm afraid Ashley Madison is just the beginning.

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  Aug 27, 2015

  Should We Watch Murders on Social Media?

  I watched a video this morning that I'm ashamed to say I viewed. No, it wasn't pornography — at least not the kind of pornography we typically think of. The video was the live shooting of two television journalists as they were reporting in Virginia.

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  Aug 4, 2015

  Planned Parenthood vs. Jesus Christ

  Jesus was chased out of his manger and into Egypt by one of Planned Parenthood's ancestors, King Herod, who also sacrificed Bethlehem's infant children for the sake of power.

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  Jul 14, 2015

  Facebook Blocked This Russell Moore Op-Ed About Planned Parenthood Selling Body Parts of Aborted Fetuses

  If this does not shock the conscience, what will? It is not only that infants, in their mother's wombs, are deprived of their lives, but also that their corpses are desecrated for profit. This is not only murderous; it is murderous in the most ghoulish way imaginable.

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  Jun 23, 2015

  What Charleston Should Remind Us About Forgiveness and Justice

  This weekend I was in Charleston for the first service at Emanuel AME Church after the brutal white supremacist terrorist attack of this past week. Walking around downtown, I was struck by the unity of the city.